“You might have thought that the health & fitness labs Apple created to help develop the Apple Watch might have been closed once the product had launched,” ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac, “but a piece in TIME reports that they are still operating 12 hours a day, six days a week.”
I was recently able to visit one of Apple’s labs dedicated to sports and health. For 12 hours a day, six days a week, Apple brings in Apple employees of every shape, condition and ethnicity to do various exercises and monitor them with the most sophisticated medical systems available. Apple has seven full-time nurses in the facility I visited, using medical monitoring equipment that can determine all types of heath related data points. — Tim Bajarin, TIME Magazine
Lovejoy reports, “Analyst Tim Bajarin says that unnamed Apple execs on the Watch team told him that Steve Jobs experience of the healthcare system was a key motivation behind the development of the Watch.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Build GPS into the next-gen Apple Watch or offer it via an Apple Smartband and the world will beat even more of a path to your door, Apple!
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