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Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by bennyg on Sunday March 02, 2014 @01:55PM (#7330224)
What product category do you expect Apple to jump into?

The only viable one I can think of is wearable tech, and definitely not a damn watch. I think Apple won't cater to as niche a market as wearable medical, and let 3rd party use their hardware to attack that market space.

Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by threeseed on Sunday March 02, 2014 @03:55PM (#7330722)
Everyone is going to say iWatch. But that's nothing.

The two biggest for me will be an App Store for the AppleTV. This could put the end to Nintendo's console hopes forever and open up a lot of new revenue streams. And the biggest by far is payments. iBeacons is starting to take off and with AppleID/TouchID they have the frictionless security mechanism.

Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by lostlogin on Sunday March 02, 2014 @05:53PM (#7331127)
frictionless? My touch ID is crap - try doing physical work (building, digging, that sort of stuff) and it will never go. Or a hint of dampness. My thumb print must be subtly different day to day or something, because I only do building stuff at weekends, yet no matter how often I re set the touch ID, even having all 5 prints set to my thumb, I end up entering password most times.
Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by iQuercus on Sunday March 02, 2014 @02:03PM (#7330267)
Why would a well-done wearable medical device be niche? In America alone there are 1 billion doctors visits per year (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/docvisit.htm)

Surely there is untapped potential in giving people greater day to day insights into their health, and obviously a lot of people care about their health.

Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by johnpowell on Sunday March 02, 2014 @05:05PM (#7330966)
What exactly would this device do? What useful data can be gathered from my pulse and miles walked that would be relevant to my my doctors visit?
Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by bennyg on Sunday March 02, 2014 @08:03PM (#7331498)
This.

Until it can analyze sweat for illnesses and nutrition info that won't get Apple in trouble legally (FDA...) and will spare you from going in for a check-up, then I don't think it's feasible at all for them to venture in that area.

Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by panacea on Sunday March 02, 2014 @08:10PM (#7331520)
Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by snowwrestler on Sunday March 02, 2014 @02:15PM (#7330317)
I think it's correct to say that Apple won't launch a wearable tech "medical" device until they know how to break it out of being a niche product.

MP3 players, smartphones, and tablets were all small "niche" markets before Apple entered them.