[P-NP]

Many studies show that modern machine learning could revolutionize healthcare. However, many hospitals and governments are extremely protective of patient data. And many hospitals don't even know how to exploit their data through deep learning. Enter Apple and Google and others with big machine learning departments. They are finding new ways of collecting health-relevant data. For example:

Through Apple Heart Study, Stanford Medicine researchers show wearable technology can help detect atrial fibrillation

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2019/11/through-apple...

https://www.apple.com/healthcare/docs/site/Apple_Watch_Arrhy...

An OS with a focus on health seems to make a lot of sense.

[zyang]

That's why it was genius for Apple to bet on privacy. It's the only big tech company I can trust with my health data.

[brokenc0de]

Apple's privacy marketing seems like just that. All of their proprietary software is highly suspect. And remember, the COVID-19 contact tracing APIs were built by both _Google_ and Apple. If Apple was so concerned about privacy they would have implemented the tracing APIs themselves for the iPhone and released the source code.