Andreessen Horowitz September 16, 2020
We cover the latest coming out of Apple’s event yesterday, focusing on their new watches (including a lower price model); new sensors (including blood oxygen); and services for healthcare. Is always-on, (relatively) low-cost, passive monitoring for fitness and mainstream consumers really, finally the wedge into data for clinical applications as well? What features — cost, efficacy, battery power, convenience, data, business model — do and don’t matter when it comes to filling in the gaps between the doctor’s office and our mobile selves, families, home care?
We take an, ahem, “pulse check” on where we are when it comes to the idea of the “doctor’s office on a wrist”. To help tease...