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Mac OS Ken: 02.18.2015

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7996 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

- WSJ Says Apple Wanted More Medical Data from Apple Watch - Wired: The Apple Watch Does Not Have to Do Anything Special to Be Huge - WSJ: Five to Six Million Apple Watches Produced Ahead of Launch - Apple and Huawei Steal Share in China Smartphone Market - iOS 8 Adoption Hits 73-Percent - Staples Sees Strong Adoption of Apple Pay in iOS App - Southwest Adds Passbook Support to iOS App - Chris Breen Leaves Macworld for Job at Apple - Apple Campus and Tim Cook Host GA Congressman John Lewis - Get Two Transporter Syncs for 99-Dollars with Offer Code KEN2FER at

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0:00.0

This is Mac OSKinn.

0:10.0

Waiting and wondering over Apple Watch, iPhone Chair blows up in China.

0:18.0

And an interesting case study for Apple Day.

0:21.0

It's Wednesday, February 18th, 2015. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacoS

0:28.1

Ken. Brought to you by yours truly and supported by IChart magazine, putting Apple and Tech News in focus

0:36.5

EY E. E.E. E. E. E. E. chart magazine, available for iOS Newsstand now. If the question is, what will Apple I.

0:43.0

If the question is, what will Apple Watch do?

0:46.0

The answer may be.

0:47.0

Not as much as Apple had hoped initially.

0:50.0

Apple World Today highlights a report from the Wall Street Journal that says Apple had hoped

0:54.5

to get a more hardcore health tracker out of the wearable than it ended up being able to produce.

1:00.3

Reportedly meant originally to measure blood pressure, heart activity, and stress levels, among other things,

1:06.0

the sensors just aren't there yet.

1:09.0

So Apple nicks the plan.

1:11.0

The piece quotes the journal is saying development languished because much of the

1:15.0

health sensor technology failed to meet Apple's standards.

1:18.9

These features were shelved for the first version of the watch, but they may be included in future models

1:23.9

the people familiar with the matter set. What the Apple Watch world will be wearing

1:29.2

instead is less of a medical monitor and more of a fashion and fitness accessory.

1:34.6

Of course it'll still do plenty of other stuff including received notifications, play music,

1:39.4

make Apple pay payments, and the list goes on.

1:44.2

What will news of what might have been mean for sales of Apple Watch?

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