{"id":923,"date":"2023-11-01T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/?p=923"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:25:07","slug":"the-first-apple-watch-was-supposed-to-launch-with-blood-sugar-monitoring-the-health-battle-within-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/01\/the-first-apple-watch-was-supposed-to-launch-with-blood-sugar-monitoring-the-health-battle-within-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"The first Apple Watch was supposed to launch with blood sugar monitoring; the health battle within Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Apple-Watch-blood-sugar-monitoring.jpg\"><\/div>\n<p>A new report based on interviews with insiders says the very first <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/apple-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Watch<\/a> was originally supposed to launch with non-invasive blood sugar monitoring. Indeed, it says, this was intended to be the device\u2019s headline feature.<\/p>\n<p>The piece also reveals battles within the company over how far the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/apple-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health<\/a> ambitions should go, with some criticising it for targeting the \u201cworried well\u201d rather than those who most need health tech \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,apple-health,apple-watch\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"916961\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/11\/01\/apple-watch-blood-sugar-monitoring\/#more-916961\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report based on interviews with insiders says the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormygrapes.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}