[david-cako]

or... as with many other technologies, Apple leading the way will subsidize the proof of concept for everyone else. The iPhone didn’t stop people in poorer countries from getting mobile service and smartphones for pennies on the dollar. In fact, it did the exact opposite. 3rd world countries went and built better mobile networks than we had in the US at the time.

Moreover, if the existing medical industry is evidence of anything, prices are jacked up in developed countries to foot the bill of R&D, and the same medications are sold elsewhere for next to nothing.

Apple giving away health technology to disadvantaged communities seems like a good next step. Perhaps existing medical companies aren’t as incentivized to do that because they don’t have the shiny brand to advertise.