[seanmcdirmid]

The health stuff doesn’t add much compared to the LTE and base hardware you need anyways. It is cheaper for Apple to just make one board with everything then to separate the health stuff, which is mostly software on top of cheap sensors.

It works like that for everyone else also. The health stuff is easy to add and conveniently usable on your wrist, so it gets put in by default.

[andraganescu]

Yes I think you are right except that it comes at the cost of a device that is anti-anatomy :) a bulge on your wrist to wear 12h ...

Maybe they'll refine and refine those sensors to make it flat? They still add weight I think?

[seanmcdirmid]

The casing and screen are much of the bulk, but the LTE is no slouch either. If you are ok with e-ink display and no LTE, I’m sure something really thin is possible. But I don’t see something like that with LTE as possible yet. By the time it is, probably the health hardware will be small enough to go along with it.

[smokeydoe]

I think they’re just talking about the bottom with the sensors. They bulge out to get a more accurate reading. It would be more comfortable if that was flat.

[seanmcdirmid]

Ah, I just had to take off my watch right now to see those, I've never noticed the bulge before.

[andraganescu]

Ha. People are so different, I was annoyed and distracted by that since minute one :)))