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Inference of health state from consumer wearables and body-worn sensors, including interstitial glucose, activity and sleep signals.
ZDNET's reviewer wore both flagships for three weeks and says apps decided it. Every difference the piece actually enumerates is first-party health software, which is a different question.
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Apple has stopped selling the Series 11 at the same moment Readiness, Recovery HRV and Audio Intelligence became exclusive to the Series 12, so any mixed deployment now supports two different feature sets.
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Apple left the Ultra's case, display and price where they were and spent this year's upgrade underneath, on the sensor array and the silicon. What the watch can measure now depends on hardware a software update cannot supply.
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The redesigned Health app takes a heart rate reading every five seconds off the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, turns it into readiness and Health Age scores, and sells the bloodwork that fills the gap for $119.
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The Series 12 samples heart rate every five seconds and HRV far more often, but the features Apple leads with are judgments built on that data: a readiness score, and a Health Age that grades you against your own age.
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The $70m round adds Qualcomm silicon and a Labcorp diagnostics tie-up to the plan, while the only thing a developer can touch this month is a software update running on the chips Ultrahuman already ships.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is testing all-day heart-rate logging and a rebuilt health app showing Whoop- and Oura-style metrics, which puts the interpretation layer subscribers pay for onto hardware they already own.
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The dual-stream design is the part of this that would transfer to other sensor data. Four things changed at once, and no ablation appears in the write-up.
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