The BP monitoring on the watch seems pretty awesome. Translation on the iPods seems nice if it works well. Are they really slowing down?

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drdaeman 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Except it's not a BP monitoring, it's some ML gimmick that detects signs of high BP. If it's like their sleep monitoring (which e.g. thinks I was in a "core sleep" while I was unable to fall asleep so I was sitting and playing a game), it's just a "maybe it'll work, but don't rely on this and don't expect any accuracy" type of thing.

	▲	infecto 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes that’s correct but if it’s directionally correct it can be useful. My anecdote is that the sleep apnea tracking is directionally correct for me. It might not be for everyone but as long as it’s directionally correct it can be quite useful.
	▲	dzhiurgis 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This. BP machine is like $50, 5x cheaper than a watch. And it's not like hypertension is suddenly onset.

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dilyevsky 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The products are in a lot of cases at the limits that can be delivered with existing battery and chip technologies. Pretty hard to keep delivering “wow” when this is the case. If they were really becoming ineffective wed see others leapfrogging them but we dont