In the past few years, health management has become the primary focus for Apple. With features like ECG monitoring, fall detection, and blood oxygen measuring, Apple Watch ensures that users are regularly updated about their health. The renowned Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, has commented on the future Airpods and Apple Watch Series 8.
Kuo believes that demand for the Apple Watch in 2022 will be high as the health management is going to be on a completely new level with the addition of new health management features and among them, body temperature measurement will be the major highlight. This feature would literally turn the Apple Watch into a thermometer. The advantages of having a thermometer on the wrist aren’t hidden from anyone. Bloomberg also reported that the Apple Watch would likely feature a body temperature sensor in 2022.
Apple CEO Tim Cook in an interview with Outside Magazine last year said the Apple Watch you see today is still in “the early innings” and there’s an enormous amount of sensors that could still be integrated into these watches. He believes if a car can have so many sensors, then our body must have them too.
Additionally, Kuo also talked about the future AirPods and how they will be synced with Apple Watch to provide health management functions, but the specifics of it are yet to be seen. Back in May 2020, a report surfaced that future AirPods would adopt new system-in-package technology with embedded AI, allowing the AirPods to “monitor heart rates, step counts, and health conditions.”
According to Kuo, the Chinese supplier Luxshare Precision will enjoy most of Apple’s health management hardware products contract.
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