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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.

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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?
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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.

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