Remember, in September 2014, Apple presented its first connected watch model. Ten years later, we are at the Apple Watch Series 10 which, thanks to watchOS 11, once again introduces welcome features in terms of health monitoring. Several Apple executives have just spoken with the British newspaper The Independent. They tell the story of the genesis of these tools.
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Apple inspired by its customers?
Jeff Williams, who leads the Apple Watch engineering teams, says that Tim Cook received emails from customers who explained that their connected watch potentially saved their lives.
He then emphasizes:
So we realized we had this opportunity – and more importantly, a responsibility. So we started looking for opportunities. That’s when we started pulling wires and adding additional sensors and features like irregular rhythm, atrial fibrillation alerts, and up to something like sleep apnea.
The latter was all the more sensitive about this subject as he himself suffers from sleep apnea. He specifies in this regard: “It wasn’t really about pushing personal goals – we don’t really do that at Apple – but it certainly helps to have experience in terms of being able to strengthen and encourage the team to have a such an opportunity to help people. »
For her part, Dr. Sumbul Desai, vice president of health at Apple, thinks that the new Vitals application in watchOS 11 is just the beginning. After sleep, it might work during the day: “If we could, over time, get that type of information during the day, well, we would always be pulling the thread to see what else we could do”.
To go further, do not hesitate to read the interview carried out by our British colleagues here.
Par : Keleops AG
