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Re: Apple Special Event [video]

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Post by ynniv » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 10:00 PM UTC

21 wrote: post #320

ynniv wrote: post #308

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I agree on complexity, but when you see a clear up/down peak that is well correlated to a popular live event... you can make a decent guess.

Sure, but you don't know what in the popular live event was the trigger of the move. At this level, it might be the color of the shirt of somebody walking on the stage, or the length in seconds of the video for some feature.

Seriously did you look at the chart compared to the Mac Rumors time stamps? This isn't butterflies and hurricanes. I'm not even sure why I'm writing this reply.

Re: Apple Special Event [video]

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Post by samfisher83 » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 10:01 PM UTC

slg wrote: post #101

It is interesting that Apple will now sell 7 distinct phone models. Throw in the different capacities and carriers and you have a few dozen different SKUs. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is a notable deviation from their early approach to the iPhone.

Steve Jobs was the one who axed a lot of their products in their early years.

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Post by scarface74 » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 10:03 PM UTC

24gttghh wrote: post #324

scarface74 wrote: post #290

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Why would an insurance company care about what you do with your HSA/Flex account. They aren't out of any money.

The IRS might care since they are the ones who enforce the rules surrounding their use, not your insurance company...

I took the parent post as implying that the insurance company would try to exclude purchasing the Apple Watch.

Re: Apple Special Event [video]

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Post by aesclepius » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 10:09 PM UTC

MrUnderhill wrote: post #213

vedtopkar wrote: post #7

FDA approval to market the new Apple Watch as a medical device is a huge deal.

Anyone know how ECG from the watch compares to a device like the QardioCore [1] (or more traditional Holter monitor, i.e. the recorder with pads/wires all over)? [1] https://www.getqardio.com/qardiocore-wearable-ecg-ekg-monito...

Sounds like the QardioCore has a 3 lead ECG. Couldn't find too much more on that, as their website is painful at best. Holter monitor is a 12 lead ECG but with some decreased signal fidelity. This is just a single lead monitoring for rhythm like a tele strip.

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Post by oxplot » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 10:13 PM UTC

GFischer wrote: post #284

untog wrote: post #266

It occurs to me today how sad it is that we only have two viable mobile ecosystems these days. I have an iPhone SE, which Apple has opted not to update. That's their decision to make, I suppose, but no-one else can make iOS devices and I really don't want to switch to Android (it isn't ignorance, I've used it since the Nexus One, I've just grown to dislike it for privacy and UI performance reasons over time, and it d…

UI performance in Androids is decent these days. Privacy, well... no. Even within the Android ecosystem, it's very sad that innovation is stymied. The only ones that even try are LG and they always fall flat. There's a long list of different Android phones I'd like to see: - Keyboard / Accessible phones. My mother in law has some disabilities that prevent her from using a touch-phone and she's using an Android phone…

On Android, you can assign volume buttons to be there shutter button. You can also open the camera at anytime even when locked, by double clicking part button.

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Post by pjob » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 10:15 PM UTC

bookofjoe wrote: post #369

vedtopkar wrote: post #7

FDA approval to market the new Apple Watch as a medical device is a huge deal.

More than a huge deal, simply astonishing to this retired long-time neurosurgical anesthesiologist. To have 1)shrunk the giant oscilloscope/monitor (1-1.5 cubic feet/±50 lbs.) atop my anesthesia machine AND eliminate the long tangled lead wires connecting to the never-available sticky gel pads that sometimes came loose in the middle of a sitting craniotomy, necessitating the anesthesiologist's equivalent of the death…

Hasn't this been addressed by products like AliveCor's kardia line for a while now? I'd prefer the form factor of a phone-paired device over a watch in a multi-patient environment.

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Post by gruturo » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 10:16 PM UTC

DaveSchmindel wrote: post #122

I can imagine Apple has quite a few linguists on its payroll; They are still beating the words “beautiful” and “best” to death in their keynotes. It’s tough to not be excited about new features that are debuted upon each release, but it’s also getting monotonous to hear, “Product X is the _best_ version of its kind. Product Y is the _most_ we’ve ever created and its pictures are simply _beautiful_.”

Not only, but the overuse of "Product X is the best $thing we have ever made", while hearing also "and we completely redesigned it" pretty much every year creates the overall impression that they keep getting things wrong.

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Post by aesclepius » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 10:16 PM UTC

mereel wrote: post #72

sho wrote: post #40

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> it is a novelty I'm sure those millions of people who have hospital-grade ECG machines at home have no need for this toy, but for those few who don't, it sounds like an absolute game-changer that could really save lives. The best medical device, like the best camera, is the one you actually have with you when you need it - and as someone who has occasionally worried about what feels like a weird heartbeat, I'll be…

You're right -- I thinking more of a clinical context, which is definitely the wrong frame for this. From what I've read online, it only seems to detect AFib, which is obviously useful since I think it's the most common abnormal rhythm. Maybe it's only able to detect AFib since it's just on the wearer's wrist? I wonder if there are plans to make little wireless sensors pads to mimic having more leads. That'd be prett…

The fact that it can pick up on A. Fibb, but likely track and save strips of SVT can at least get the user to a medical evaluation with a licensed physician. It's a big deal, as a medicine resident, this could be a game change for a large segment of the population.

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Post by macintux » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 10:26 PM UTC

waterphone wrote: post #377

macintux wrote: post #230

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It only calls 911 if it detects no movement after a fall, so it would have to be the motion sensors in the device that completely fail, not a touch sensor.

I was referring to the failure of whatever mechanism would be used to cancel an alert that appears post-fall.

My point is that there is no immediate need to cancel anything if you are moving.

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Post by Someone1234 » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 10:27 PM UTC

theshrike79 wrote: post #312

guzik wrote: post #192

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I don't know why they lie in their presentations. There are at least 100 consumer ECG monitors/trackers on the market.

The presentations aren't exactly off the cuff, that shit is vetted by two dozen lawyers. Apple doesn't 'lie'. They might stretch and embellish the truth or use very specific phrasing, but they don't lie.

This seems like needlessly trying to take an inch. Apple says statements which the average person with a fully array of facts would call untrue i.e. a lie.

The fact that a lawyer somewhere can find a loophole or just enough edge for doubt, doesn't within itself disprove that. It is common tongue, common sense, a lie, a untruth, factually incorrect, etc.