“Apple’s mystery unveiling on Tuesday is expected to be a watershed moment for the California giant — and the entire tech industry,” Glenn Chapman reports for Agence France-Presse.
“Cook could help Apple establish its dominance in a new category with an “iWatch” at the event set in the very location where Jobs introduced the Macintosh computer 30 years ago,” Chapman reports. “Apple lovers have been eager for the company to seize a new gadget category the way it dominated smartphones, tablets, and MP3 players with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod respectively. ‘I don’t believe this project is a knee-jerk reaction to other smart watches,’ said Creative Strategies president Tim Bajarin. ‘While the roots go back to Steve Jobs, this product is Tim Cook and Jony Ive.'”
“The genesis of what is being referred to in the media as ‘iWatch’ stemmed from Jobs and his frustration with health care matters while battling illness that took his life, according to the analyst,” Chapman reports. “Bajarin spoke of sources telling him the Apple wearable computer has been in the works for seven years.”
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“For those of us who have followed the life of Steve Jobs, we know most of the products he brought to market were ones he wanted to use himself,” Tim Bajarin writes for PC Magazine.
“I believe Apple’s next big thing comes out of his immense frustration in not being able to monitor his health in real time and in studying the bureaucratic world of healthcare — where data is not portable and effectively sharing data between doctors and other members of his healthcare team was near impossible,” Bajarin writes. “I believe this is at the heart of Apple’s Healthkit and will drive one of the last big things Steve Jobs personally created for Apple before his death.”
“I believe we will see this health wearable this year and it will be version 1.0 of Apple’s move into health,” Bajarin writes. “Over the next year, it will enhance HealthKit’s abilities and attract many more developers. Then, over time, that data will move to the cloud and eventually, once the legal issues are ironed out, the data will be made available to healthcare providers.”
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MacDailyNews Take: “iWatch” has Steve Jobs’ fingerprints all over it.