Apple met with FDA to feel out agency’s position on regulating health apps, sensors, and devices.

In the wake of an announcement on Apple’s HealthKit health data platform and news of a sensor-laden Apple health wearable coming this fall, many have wondered how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will regulate the growing ecosystem of health-related apps and devices.

New details: Apple’s new health wearable will be lined with sensors.

A new report today cites “industry sources” saying that Apple is working on a health wearable that it will release next October.

The story, from Nikkei Asian Review, says the new watch-like wearable will run on iOS 8, and will be equipped with a centralized function to manage users’ biometric information via smartphones.

VentureBeat’s own source confirms the story, saying that the new device will likely use a curved organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touchscreen. Our source says the display design is “sleek” and “aerodynamic”, and bests the design of Samsung’s most recent health wearable, the Gear Fit.

Apple’s on-stage HealthKit goof proves it still has to earn the trust of the health community.

Monday at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, an image flashed up on the screen behind VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi. It was a screen shot from Apple’s new Health app (or a mockup thereof), showing a user’s blood glucose level.

Apple’s New Programming Language, Swift, Will Lure More Developers

Apple may not have wowed consumers with the latest software offerings at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco this year. But it unveiled something that could have a much bigger impact than a new version of its iOS mobile software or even a new iPhone: a new programming language.

Called Swift, it’s meant to offer a faster, easier way to build software for Apple’s products than its existing programming language, Objective-C. And so far, developers like what they see, saying it will be especially helpful for inexperienced coders who may have shied away from developing iPhone apps in the past.

Apple manufacturer Foxconn suspends Vietnam production amidst riots.

Foxconn’s six manufacturing sites in Vietnam won’t be assembling iPhones and iPads this weekend — or anything else, for that matter.

The Taiwan-based electronics supplier, which manufactures gadgets for Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, and others, is suspending operations in Vietnam for at least three days due to violent anti-China protests, reports the Financial Times.

China’s contentious oil drilling near the Paracel Islands spurred the protests in Vietnam. China controls the chain of islands in the South China Sea, but Vietnam and Taiwan have also claimed them as their own.

Apple’s latest patent prevents you from texting while driving.

I think the majority of people can agree that text messaging while operating an automobile is a really bad decision. And clearly Apple thinks so, too.

Is Apple’s Meteoric Rise Leading to a Devastating Drop?

Apple’s enormous growth over the past decade is due in large part to the company’s tight monitoring of its global supply chain and a tenacious drive to produce cutting-edge products and content. But could these keys to success also inhibit the company’s evolution?

Details on Apple’s iOS health tracking app hint at advanced iWatch features.

The iWatch could be a far more advanced health tracker than previously thought.

We’ve been hearing that Apple was developing a health tracking app, dubbed Healthbook, and making health a big focus of its rumored iWatch for months now. But new details on Healthbook published this morning by 9to5Mac give us a much clearer idea of what Apple’s smartwatch could actually offer.

New Apple pedometer patent may hint at a future iWatch.

A newly published Apple patent application that details ways to improve a wrist-based pedometer could represent another piece of evidence pointing to an iWatch.

Desmitificando el milagro chino: la verdad sobre los costes de Apple.

En la discusión sobre el fenómeno NEST se ha afirmado que a “Apple le fabrican los chinos”. Esta es una leyenda urbana fundada en el secretismo que aplica Apple sobre sus procedimientos de diseño y fabricación. Uno de los pocos estudios que existe sobre los costes de Apple los aportan investigadores de la Universidad de California Irvine. En el estudio se comparan los costes de fabricación de los iPOds de Apple contra los costes de los notebook PCs de HP.

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