Ondrej Holzman For a long time, this object was completely forbidden to anyone who did not have the appropriate permissions and was not an Apple employee. Now, a few weeks before the launch of the Watch, the Californian company has decided to let journalists into its secret laboratory, where medical and fitness research takes place.
Fortune favored the station ABC News, who, in addition to filming the report, was also able to speak with Apple's Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and Jay Blahnik, Director of Health and Fitness Technologies.
"They knew they were testing something here, but they didn't know it was for the Apple Watch," Williams said of the employees who spent the past year collecting data on running, rowing, yoga and many other activities in the otherwise inaccessible facility.
"I gave them all these masks and other measuring devices, but we covered the Apple Watch so they wouldn't be recognized," Williams revealed, explaining how Apple fooled even its own employees. Only a few people knew about the real intent of the data collection for the Watch.
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Apple has also created special "climate chambers" in its laboratories to simulate different weather conditions and to control how its products behave in such conditions. Subsequently, selected employees traveled all over the world with the watch. “We've been to Alaska and Dubai to really test the Apple Watch in all these environments,” said Blahnik.
“I think we've already collected perhaps the largest set of fitness data in the world, and from our perspective it's still just the beginning. The impact on health can be huge," thinks Blahnik, and Dr. Michael McConnel, an expert in cardiovascular medicine at Stanford.
According to McConnell, the Apple Watch will have a major impact on cardiovascular technology. As people will be wearing their watch all the time, it will help in data collection and surveys. "I think it offers us a new way to do medical research," McConnell said.
"Secret laboratory", "death chamber" - a little less boulevard wouldn't hurt, dear editors... We're not all Apple sheep...
Who would read it here :-) Perhaps only immortals.
Apple sheep? Nice naming. Too bad you NoSheeps have no identity. Actually, you have nothing to report. No one to defend. Samsung (plagiarist on a disparate foreign OS? Windows? (ha, ha)
And I don't understand these reactions at all after reading the article above.
An appropriate response would be to acknowledge how much effort some (any) group puts into collecting data (any) to improve their (any) product.
I'd like to see Korean labs calibrating their own equipment this way. It's easier to copy something developed and debugged in detail, isn't it.
And the same goes for you. If you don't like this article and site, go to one about "fakes".
Maybe Tie Ocve just knows how to appreciate hard work on their OWN products. Despite the price.
you are right out of the question :D so everyone who has a cell phone has to report to some group and have to defend someone? :D so even if apple releases some crap, you'll defend it because you agree with iOvcia? :D and when people like samsungs or phones with windows, it's probably because they suit them and not because they have to report to them :D... you should mainly see the Korean laboratories for the production of components such as apple products filled... and apple also has a rich history of stealing, so don't be under any illusions
Everyone has different preferences. Some take into account the price, some the functions, some the service, in short, everyone perceives the added value of the given device differently.
It is likely that when I buy something, I will stand behind the given purchase (brand) and I will also argue against the possible arguments of others (especially with more expensive devices). The fact that a certain device is "crap" for you does not necessarily mean that there is someone else for whom it is not "crap" and sees the whole thing differently. Are you comfortable with iOS? OKa… Are you comfortable with Android? Okay. If I like android, I use it, I don't like iOS, then yes, I belong to the android fan group and I don't see why I or anyone else should have a problem with that.
PS: I really wouldn't mention the production of components and patents ;)
but you wrote it in such a way that either you like apple and you are cool, or you like windows/samsung and you are a skunk because you have nothing to complain about... the author of the flood comment just pointed to the tabloid headline... and you immediately publish it here on samsung and windows :D and otherwise the expression apple sheep is used freely, so I don't know what you're going to be offended about :)
May I ask where I wrote about Windows and Samsung? where did I write about what is cool? where do I respond to apple sheep? …. I have a feeling, sir, that you either read another comment or you have a wild imagination :) Honestly, I didn't even write directly about Apple in the comment ;)
I thought the author of the comment was responding to me, to which I responded, I didn't read the nick, my mistake
Do you not have your own servers in Slovakia? I don't need to write posts on SK apple tree...
hm, so if you don't write to Slovakian servers, no Slovak can write to Czech servers either... really cool logic
and yes, we also have servers in Slovakia, but that doesn't mean I can't visit the Czech/foreign ones as well
if you don't like it, that's your problem, but I'll comment where I want and what I want and you won't do anything about it, at most you can make your own portal that no one but you will visit, and then your soul will hopefully be at peace :)
I just don't understand why every other post here is in Slovak.... Otherwise, no hate, I'm also half a pooch.
and what bothers you about it? don't you understand? or how do you have a problem? I usually see Slovak contributions on Czech forums and, on the contrary, Czech commentators on Slovak forums... most people don't have a problem with it, but sometimes there is some idiot who has to deal with nationality
I don't know myself, I'm a little traumatized by the university admission process, I heard Slovak all around me. I don't mind with my family.
if you don't want to hear other languages and see other nationalities, stay locked up at home...or were you afraid that some Slovaks would be accepted to school at your expense?
It doesn't matter ☺️
The original reactions and then mine are purely about the title ala lightning and the like. Your reaction is disproportionate and quite blindly bigoted, which kind of sums up what it's like to be a sheeple. No one can take away from you that you like Apple, or that you are excited about everything from them and enjoy it. I also have an Apple, but I don't care how much time it spends on, the important thing is what it will bring me and how I will benefit and feel from it. And so, for spending years developing iOS, it has clouds of errors, illogic and is a work in progress that is starting to falter, like iTunes. Well, in my opinion. If it's not interesting to me, I won't buy, but that doesn't mean others won't see it differently. But perhaps everyone has the right to be dissatisfied and not be an Apple fan.
REVEALED! We know what "Sir Jony" is hiding in his lair!!! Coming soon to your favorite tabloid server.
the fact is that apple then failed to fulfill what it set out to do (heathkit and fitness sensors in the applewatch) and also failed to fulfill the user's expectations (the internet is full of it, that it costs $10, it won't last, and in fact all the competition can do it) more).
yes, and the earth is flat and the whole universe revolves around it
The video doesn't work anymore ;-)
i don't know.. it works now :)
The watch is still a semi-finished product, like the first iPhone. They took a big bite and made unnecessarily big statements, and now they will get their revenge.
What can I do to get revenge on them? What unnecessary big announcements did they have? If I do the watches exactly as they promised, then everything is perfectly fine.
They promised a lot of biometric functions that cannot be mastered technologically. Measurement of blood pressure, blood sugar, etc. Next, I need the iPhone to measure the body functions. Have you ever been running? You want to drag both the watch and the iPhone. Risk getting wet and damaging it?? Garmin has mastered this for years. You don't need any other device for it.
And I could go on about the waterproofness of the watch, durability and, last but not least, the price/performance ratio.
You are contradicting yourself a bit... "They promised a lot of biometric functions, which are technologically impossible to master." and then "Garmin has mastered this for years." :)
No one has experience with that watch yet, so don't judge functions that haven't been tested yet.
I write there that you need an iPhone for the Apple Watch and that Garmin has already mastered this. All you need is a watch for any sports activity and connect it to your PC at home and you have distance, calories burned, km, heart rate, speed, etc. We misunderstood that they should measure pressure and so on.
I agree that the functionality will improve with the next generations.
It won't have any effect on cardiovascular disease research because the sensors it has aren't accurate, it doesn't just apply to Apple, but in general, used watches work on the same principle and it's sometimes a disaster, I've tried others and it's the same.