You don't think an Apple Watch (which starts at about $350) which could monitor your glucose more or less continuously would be far more preferable to a huge chunk of people then occasionally sticking themes with a lance and then trying to record the reading of a portable meter they have to carry around? Don't forget you have to buy the little strips.
Let's ignore the idea of insurance paying for this or any other kind of help. I imagine the Apple Watch would end up paying for itself for a type one diabetic within what, a year or two? I know those little testing strips aren't cheap.
But the Apple Watch would give you much better monitoring, no pain, no testing, far more data… Oh yeah and every feature that the people who already have an Apple Watch like.
As others have mentioned in this thread, I'm sure it's INCREDIBLY easy to get small children to test their blood glucose when necessary. I imagine this would easily be worth it to a lot of parents as well.
I think the technology would be better put to use on something other than the Apple Watch, unless an equivalent sensor minus Apple's other contributions also somehow starts at $350. You're conflating the sensor with an overpriced and rather useless piece of technology, which I say as the owner of one. I'm in full support of a non-invasive sensor for diabetics, but if we manage to come up with one, I would be against giving it an Apple price tag.
Apple could invent this an then license the sensor to other people. They gave away health kit. And they could choose not to license it to their competitors, only medical companies. But surely they'd put it on their own devices as well.
Seems like a weird attitude though: If company X can afford to (possibly waste) billions of dollars to make a medical breakthrough in Y, I don't want them to because then they'd use it themselves and charge money.
Where did I say that I don't want Apple to pursue this research? I just said that I don't want it to be solely available on Apple devices, and I certainly wouldn't support a company being congratulated for providing a medical service at an incredible cost.
Let's ignore the idea of insurance paying for this or any other kind of help. I imagine the Apple Watch would end up paying for itself for a type one diabetic within what, a year or two? I know those little testing strips aren't cheap.
But the Apple Watch would give you much better monitoring, no pain, no testing, far more data… Oh yeah and every feature that the people who already have an Apple Watch like.
As others have mentioned in this thread, I'm sure it's INCREDIBLY easy to get small children to test their blood glucose when necessary. I imagine this would easily be worth it to a lot of parents as well.