App Association’s AirStrip takes the stage at Apple event
The first company on stage after Tim Cook at Apple’s iPhone event last week was App Association member AirStrip Technologies. The San Antonio-based company creates products that use Department of Defense-level encryption allowing doctors to remotely view live patient data to make urgent care decisions. On Wednesday, co-founder Cameron Powell, MD demonstrated how AirStrip One and the Sense4Baby system utilize the powerful sensors packed inside the Apple Watch allowing physicians to compare real-time patient waveform data with historical data on a [...]
Eugene Startup Community Draws Widespread Praise
In August, the App Association hosted a Developer Education Series event with Silicon Shire in Eugene, Oregon. A number of our members hail from this region and have launched companies thriving in the mobile economy. In July, Fast Company took note of Eugene's startup culture and named it a Top Ten Tech City. The App Association decided to visit to see for ourselves what makes this area such a hotbed for startups and innovation. What we found was an amazing [...]
Why watchOS 2 will make your Apple Watch insanely great
When Wellbeyond released a meditation timer, it was designed from the ground up for the Apple Watch — with a “Watch First” mindset. The user interactions on the Watch were designed first, and the iOS app was almost an afterthought. While this fostered a very simple and elegant user interface, most development time was consumed by working around the limitations of the first version of the Apple Watch SDK. For example, the opening screen lets you simply select how long you want to meditate: [...]
I dream of kitchen IoT…
Between Alex’s recent post about how devices and apps can help manage chronic conditions, Morgan’s testimony on the Internet of Things (IoT) last week, and how the wearables and apps I’ve been trying for We Wear It are changing my habits, I got to thinking about what a fully-connected life would be like. It starts with something I’ve fantasized about for years: an IoT kitchen. I’m not just talking about connected appliances where you can start pre-heating your oven on your [...]
Wearable of the Week: Apple Watch
Who’s trying it: Morgan, Jonathan, Nick From the beginning of We Wear It, our team has made clear that wearables are not just about counting steps—they do a lot more. The Apple Watch certainly falls into the “does a lot more” category, combining fashion with a whole lot of function. Here we’re concentrating on the Apple Watch as a health and fitness companion. For its fitness tracking, the Watch uses three main hardware components: a heart rate sensor, an accelerometer, [...]
[UPDATED] Rumor roundup: Apple announcement event
Start your Apple announcement advent calendar – the big day is about a week away. And like kids trying to guess what’s under the Christmas tree, speculations are mounting for what’s to come on September 9. Much like the tightlipped nature of her Cupertino design team, Siri doesn’t budge when asked to shed a little light on the event… But if you ask nicely she says… So we took Siri’s advice and sifted through the rumors to compile them – all in [...]