[Sanddancer]

The M7 here is not a revolution by a long shot. Companies have been using this very technique -- a small, slow, low powered coprocessor -- for decades for these kinds of devices for the exact same purposes apple is. I've used the technique myself in certain hobby projects because, like apple, I don't want to have my big beefy processor running all the time, nor stopping to poll a bunch of data I don't want to care about right away. It's just easier to gather it up with a slower, lower-powered device, and get the data when I actually do need to process it. The rest of what you're describing in the article, again, has nothing to do with apple whatsoever, other than them being late to the dance.

Were apple really to want to revolutionize health and medicine, they'd need to start by bringing everyone to the table, and actually collaborate on an interface and open specification, so that the technology can get to the people who need it the most. Right now, Apple's more concerned about giving toys to geeks than actually changing the world, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

[thetylerhayes]

I agree with everything except Apple only being concerned with giving toys to geeks. The way Apple works is to introduce something new in a broad, gentle use and keep iterating with more use cases and improved performance from there.