I like Apple's way of thinking:
forward thinking. That’s what innovation is all about. I'm also
interested in the platform approach. It would be interesting to see how
this plays out.
I'd like
to stress the importance of software side of business like Apple has done it so
well.
Samsung
has to compete with Apple in the healthcare platform. Will Samsung be a
fast follower this time around? Creativity and forward looking can't be
built within a day. That may be what Samsung is lacking most despite its
technological prowess and nimble product design.
From
Forbes:
Apple is about to change the relationship between brands,
data and customers. That’s the secret sauce in its new Health Kit offering,
according to several observers of data and security.
The first point to emerge from that
discussion is that Apple has entered the health arena as an enabler. There’s
surely a lesson there for every other business contemplating or executing a
platform strategy.
Whatever Apple does down the line, first base
is to enable local storage on the iPhone of data collected by other
devices, says Waite
One of the first suppliers to throw
their hat in the ring is WebMD, which is already busy on an app
to interpret sensor data.
Madsen also sees Apple adopting an enabling
role:
Apple is positioning its Health app as the point of aggregation
for all the user’s different health data, and Health Kit the development
platform to enable that integration. But critically, indications are that
the health data will for the most part be collected by sensors (Nike+, Withings
Scale, Fitbit Flex etc) of other wearable manufacturers…. offering – i..e stay
away from the hardware for now and instead provide the services & software
glue to tie all the existing hardware into some sort of cohesive whole.
The precise nature of the Apple solution is, as yet, an
unknown, but what is revolutionary is the way it reverses the current data
paradigm, away from Google’s collection-view towards one where all data is
managed by the enterprise on behalf of us, the consumers.
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