The Apple Watch Series 9 is only a few weeks into its lifespan, but it’s the last one Bloomberg The report delves into Apple’s line of smart wearables with some interesting revelations about its past and speculation about new health tracking features coming to the next-generation smartwatch. Apple Watch Series 10 is said to bring blood pressure monitoring and sleep apnea monitoring to offer a more comprehensive health profile to its users.
Apple also hopes to bring non-invasive blood sugar monitoring to its future smartwatches for pre-diabetic conditions. The readings will not be medical-grade but rather focused on displaying trends in users’ blood sugar levels and issuing alerts if they enter a prediabetic state. Apple is reportedly not interested in post-illness healthcare for people with diabetes, as mentioned by a company insider.
Apple’s approach will rely on short-wave infrared absorption spectroscopy that beams light through the user’s skin between blood vessels and cells and then reads the reflected light to help calculate the concentration of glucose in the bloodstream.
Bloomberg’s new report also detailed some retrospective insights into the early days of Apple Watch development, which began at the end of Steve Jobs’ tenure as CEO. Jobs reportedly instructed several high-ranking executives to begin work on a non-invasive blood sugar monitor. Apple then came up with a startup called Avolonte Health that worked to make the blood sugar meter for the Apple Watch Series 1 a reality, even though we all know it didn’t work.
Apple Watch Sport 38mm (1st generation)
Avolonte was based in a small two-story building in Palo Alto, California, just 15 minutes from Apple headquarters, and had a mix of engineers, healthcare consultants, medical device experts and sleep scientists as employees. Apple also planned, but ultimately scrapped, the idea of making Apple Watch and Apple Health compatible with Android devices since the Apple Watch is a driver of iPhone sales.
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