But even if the glucose testing function is somewhat above mediocre AND integrates well with a journal app of my ups and downs, I'm sold. No questions, line me up for a too-expensive band, the charging station, etc.
Here's the thing about Type 1 diabetics- we'll take what we can get. No one caters to us because we're such a small subset of diabetics we may as well be a rounding error. Every treatment/study/drug you see in the media is aimed at Type 2 diabetics. Glucose meters are about the only thing we both benefit from.
Even with doing finger prick blood tests 5 times a day, for years, I feel mostly clueless. And rely heavily on how I feel. Given how much time this condition (?) costs healthcare, this seems a poor way to manage it.
I'm desperate to learn more about my body's glucose trends. A watch that could do that would be awesome.
It's always the same with democracy. You have to make those decisions before something actually happens. After it's too late.
Are you familiar with the Helo? The Helo LX is a device already ahead of Apple's Engineers. You can find the Helo LX at http://Farmer.Helo.Life
look into who Antonio De Rosa is. In short, he is our chief designer and he was on that Apple iWatch team in 2010. We are ahead of Apple on this one. Those sensors exist today and guess who has them?! But this is great, Apple has a much bigger marketing budget than we do.
You can't trust corporations to do the right things here. They will be tempted. Eventually one will give in.
Not only can they steal it in ways you won't notice, but they don't even need to. They can just do an update in the CLUA that people must accept or loose their 3 years of accumulated data, giving access to "anonimized health data".
The only way to be sure it's almost safe is to either:
- design en open source system so that you know it does no evil and you can control it
- avoid putting the data in the system in the first place