{"id":503,"date":"2023-11-01T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T12:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:07:14","slug":"the-first-apple-watch-was-supposed-to-launch-with-blood-sugar-monitoring-the-health-battle-within-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/01\/the-first-apple-watch-was-supposed-to-launch-with-blood-sugar-monitoring-the-health-battle-within-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"The first Apple Watch was supposed to launch with blood sugar monitoring; the health battle within Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Apple-Watch-blood-sugar-monitoring.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A new report based on interviews with insiders says the very first <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/apple-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple Watch<\/a> was originally supposed to launch with non-invasive blood sugar monitoring. Indeed, it says, this was intended to be the device\u2019s headline feature.<\/p>\n<p>The piece also reveals battles within the company over how far the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/apple-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health<\/a> ambitions should go, with some criticising it for targeting the \u201cworried well\u201d rather than those who most need health tech \u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,apple-health,apple-watch\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"916961\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/11\/01\/apple-watch-blood-sugar-monitoring\/#more-916961\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report based on interviews with insiders says the very first Apple Watch was originally supposed to ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}