This is a barrier to development of new devices. US FDA and its sister organizations internationally have stringent regulations for designing, producing and testing such devices.
A glucometer used by diabetics daily is an approved medical device. The biggest challenges to such a device are regulatory, yet that has an ever growing loophole. Apple scooped up most of the resources and knowledge of a failed company working on this technology several years ago. Last month, Tim Cook was testing and talking about one of the most disruptive of those devices: non-invasive blood sugar monitoring, possibly in an Apple Watch. In previous years, I mentioned this is where Apple plans to disrupt the world next. Of most interest is the healthcare realm. This year there are a few themes to watch for at WWDC17 that aren’t the trite predictions about iOS11 or the iPhone8. I also look with an bit of apprehension on how many things will change in my work due to those changes in WWDC17. As a developer of iOS training materials and author of both LinkedIn Learning and my own books, I tend to look at this a bit differently than the tech and business press and hit on things they are usually blind to. There’s trends at Apple and I try to follow them as close as I can. My own tradition is to do a predictive preview of what will happen at the keynote June 5th and the days afterwards. Developers and Apple devotees will listen and watch what new features will appear in the new version of the OS of their choice. The press, ever eager to either find what new miracle Apple will pull out of its orchard or alternatively find some reason to say Apple is doomed, will listen carefully to the Keynote on June 5th to find a reason to back their view of Apple. With that one sentence I’ve really told you everything you need to know about WWDC2017, yet it gets more interesting once you start to explore that.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR MAC WWDC SEPTEMBER 2017 UPDATE
Apple will change Xcode, iOS, watchOS, macOS, and tvOS to reflect those hardware changes and add a few new API’s and update old ones.
In early to mid June is Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference, which is really a early warning to developers what will change when new hardware ships in the fall. Both are a misreading of another June tradition. Someone else will say Apple didn’t make any new innovations, because they didn’t announce any new hardware. Every year there are several traditions that happen around early June.
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