Top Health App removed from App Store

Top Health App removed from App Store

One of the highest grossing health apps, Instant Blood Pressure Monitor, has finally been taken out of the App Store. If you keep up with iMedicalApps, you’re well aware of the issues we had with the app.

The Instant Blood Pressure Monitor app promised to measure your blood pressure using your iPhone’s microphone pressed up against your heart, and your finger on the camera. The app had already been removed from the Google Play store a few months ago.

We’ve received emails and complaints from several academics and physicians who were concerned how this app was being utilized.

Initially, the app didn’t even have a disclaimer in it when it was launched. Only when we reached out to the developers and told them of our concerns did the disclaimers of how the app should only be used for “recreational” purposes come up.

But even with these disclaimers the app was one of the top 5 grossing health apps in the US App Store for several months, garnering thousands of reviews from users who stated how they were using the app for actual blood pressure recordings — terrifying.

Our issue with the development team, Auralife, was never with the “novel” way the app purported to measure blood pressure. Rather, it was the lack of transparency and lack of granular data they provided — critical if you create something different like this.

Compare them to Opternative, a digital health product that has come up with a novel way to do prescription eye exams. They use a smartphone and a laptop to deliver a prescription for your glasses and contacts from your home.

They registered their product with the FDA and backed it up with an IRB clinical trial. Opternative still has detractors who are critical of their overall methods, but at least they are going through the right channels.

Opternative didn’t go for the easy buck. Rather, they had a novel idea, and knew if they wanted to make it legitimate they had to approach things the right way.
That’s something the developers of Instant Blood Pressure app didn’t do.

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Sony Android TV : Australia

Sony Android TV : Australia

Android on the big screen is coming of age with Sony's latest Smart TVs.
Running Android on a television or set-top box is one of those ideas which looks great on paper but generally fails to live up to expectations.

Sony's latest effort, available on most of its 2015 range including the 75-inch Ultra HD model I looked at Monday, offers the slickest Android television implementation I've seen yet, but it comes at a price.

We're not just talking about a re-skinned version of Android as you see on many home entertainment devices. Android TV is a flavour of Android 5.0 Lollipop designed from the ground up by Google to run on a Smart TV.

This means that the interface and apps are all customised for a 10-foot user experience from the couch and they play nicely with the remote control. It also means that you don't get dumped into clunky phone-style Android menus as you delve into the advanced settings.

The trade-off for this elegant user experience is that you're limited to a small corner of the Google Play App Store which offers apps optimised for Android TV.

It's an understandable restriction when you consider that it's intended as a form of user experience quality control, but it's still frustrating if you're under the impression that any old Android app will run on the television.

Keep in mind that even the apps available for Android TV might lag behind the mainstream Android app version when it comes to updates with new features.

Entertain me
Living within this app ecosystem might not bother you, depending on why you want your television to run Android. For me it's all about content and media players and here Android TV excels.

I'd say tight access to Google Play movies, TV shows and music is the number one reason to embrace Android on your television. All you content purchases, rentals and subscriptions are at your fingertips without the need to reach for a mobile device and mess around with local streaming – it's the equivalent of what iGadget owners enjoy via the Apple TV.

It's also great to see a wide range of third-party Android local streaming media player apps like Plex, VLC, MX Player and Kodi (formerly XBMC) all optimised for the television and remote control. If you use these apps on other devices then you'll feel right and home and Android TV might let you retire your media centre PC or streaming media set-top box.

To top things off, the television's built-in media player apps also support DLNA. You won't find any of these great local streaming features on an Apple TV, not without hacking it.

Get Smart
Scroll through the slick Android menus and you'll also find standard Smart TV apps such as FreeviewPlus, Netflix (with Ultra HD support and an HDR update on the way), Quickflix, iView, SBS, Plus7, Crackle, YouTube, Pandora, TuneIn and others.

The television's new X1 processor keeps everything smooth and responsive. You can also tap into a limited range of games, with the option of connecting a PlayStation or third-party controller.

There's a reasonable range of titles catering to casual gamers, although it's hard to see people getting too excited when these games are available on other devices. Serious gamers will find a few titles to grab their attention, but I don't see why you'd bother paying again for a limited copy of a game you already own on another platform.

Unfortunately there's no support for PlayStation Now game streaming service in Australia, which is the feature serious gamers are likely looking for from a Sony device.

If you want to use Android apps that aren't available for Android TV, the television supports Chromecast streaming and screen mirroring. This gives you the best of both worlds and might help overcome your frustrations over the limited number of Android TV apps.

So what's the verdict?
Think long and hard about what you want to do with Android on this television and whether it's worth the expense if you won't find the apps on you want in the app store.

In theory just about everything you can do in Android TV on this television, apart from gaming with a PS controller, you could do on your television using an Android smartphone or tablet via screen mirroring.

The beauty of Android TV is that it cuts down on your reliance on mobile devices for some tasks, particularly when it comes to multimedia. Now you can just flop down on the couch with the remote and watch your digital content the old-fashioned way.

If this sounds appealing then Android TV might be for you. Even if you're happy to drive your television from your phone or tablet, Android TV might appeal to members of your household who aren't.

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Strong Demand : Apple Watch !

 

Strong Demand : Apple Watch !

Apple (AAPL) Watch to Ship to More Countries in June After Strong Demand Outstrips Supply

The Apple logo hangs in the glass box entrance to the company's Fifth Avenue store in New York, Sept. 5, 2014.

Apple stock (NASDAQ: AAPL) hit an all-time high after Apple's second full earnings period since the iPhone 6 launch fueled the company's "best March quarter results ever."

But sales of iPads disappointed investors. 

About the Apple Watch, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, "Right now, demand is greater than supply and we're working hard to remedy that." Cook said the company "made progress over the last week or so" and delivered more Apple Watches to customers over the weekend "than we originally anticipated."

Strong Demand : Apple Watch !

"It is a new product, and as with any new product you take time to fully ramp," Cook said. "Having said that, I think we're in a good position. ... Sometime in late June, we anticipate to be in a position when we can sell the Apple Watch in additional countries."

"We’re learning customer preferences," Cook said about the Apple Watch, adding that there's a "much bigger breadth of possibility here than in our other products." 

The company said it will return $200 billion to shareholders through dividends and buybacks over the next two years "to reflect strong confidence in what lies ahead for Apple," Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the company earnings conference call today. 

Apple's cash pile is a whopping $194 billion after it announced revenue of $58 billion from January to March of this year and net profit of $13.6 billion. That's a jump from the same quarter a year ago: $45.6 billion in revenue and net profit of $10.2 billion last year. The company attributed "all-time record performance" of its App Store, with a record quarter of customer App Store purchases, plus sales of the iPhone and Mac.

Apple's revenue and profit beat expectations by Wall Street analysts. Apple stock was trading at $132.65, up nearly 2 percent at the close of trading in New York. Its stock was trading around $134.66, up more than 1 percent. 

International sales accounted for 69 percent of Apple's revenue this quarter, and Cook said during the earnings conference call that the success of the iPhone was especially strong in emerging markets. The company sold 61.2 million iPhones, 12.6 million iPads and 4.6 million Macs in the three-month period. 

"We’re making many strategic investments in Apple’s future," Cook said during the conference call, noting Apple's "biggest data centers in the world" in Ireland and Denmark.

The quarter's performance wasn't the record-breaking $18 billion it made in profits during its first quarter of this year and iPad sales fell 23 percent from last year, but Cook was still smitten. 

“We are thrilled by the continued strength of iPhone, Mac and the App Store, which drove our best March quarter results ever,” Cook said in a statement. "We’re seeing a higher rate of people switching to iPhone than we’ve experienced in previous cycles, and we’re off to an exciting start to the June quarter with the launch of Apple Watch."

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