Apple concept would require users to input health data to keep using their iPhone

AppleInsider (via Rush Limbaugh) ^ | Thursday, March 26, 2015, 06:49 am PT (09:49 am ET) | By Neil Hughes

[9thLife]

[Gaffer]

My Kiss of Death to Apple with respect to what I’d buy and use from them in the future. If this is their attitude, they can suck it.

[Army Air Corps]

A portable, nagging busybody. Yay.

[gusopol3]

Wow , you could beat Josh Steiner lying to his diary with this. Lie to your I phone.

[Mike Darancette]

Health information is protected under HIPAA.

[Constitutional Patriot]

liePhone.

[InterceptPoint]

I would give Apple a little room on this one. Yes, it does look like 1984 all over again but I think the application is “your aging and living alone mother or father”.

Or, it could be 1984, Apple-style.

[ctdonath2]

It’s a patent. Businesses often patent ideas they will never use, just so they can control the idea and profit from variations & use by others.

[9thLife]

Perhaps if it’s entirely user-configurable; i.e. a personally enabled nag, it might be seen as reasonable. If that’s the case, the article should have made it clear early on.

[Sirius Lee]

Health information is protected under HIPAA.

Yes, and your 4th amendment rights are guaranteed under the Constitution - just ask the NSA.

[9thLife]

I would give Apple a little room on this one. Yes, it does look like 1984 all over again but I think the application is “your aging and living alone mother or father”. Or, it could be 1984, Apple-style.

No difference anymore. One man's hammer is another man's bludgeon.

[denydenydeny]

How to kill brand loyalty in one easy lesson.

[gusopol3]

you can disclose whatever you want to about yourself, I don’t see how Apple is a healthcare provider covered by HIPPA.

[Loud Mime]

BFD - I’m back to cycling so I’m going to use this app, if/when I go to the 6.

Prolefeed, from 1984, is all around us already; and Apple has nothing to do with it.

[Gaffer]

The context as I read the post is “forced” participation. In that vein, anything like this Apple might require is BS. I’d have none of it.

I gave up wearing a watch mostly because I had the time on the mobile phone I carried. I also like to be able to wifi to the internet to keep up with things here. Beyond that, I really don’t need Apple for sh!t other than as a good efficient product. The moment it starts being other than that, I’ll drop it like a bad habit and not look back.

[GreyFriar]

I’ve never been an Apple product user, but this guarantees I NEVER, EVER will be.

[Fresh Wind]

How in the world would this idiocy be patentable?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

The phone.only a neurotic could.love

[samtheman]

Post 9 is corrected

It will be certainly user-configurable

[9thLife]

1984, is all around us already; and Apple has nothing to do with it.

This is thought provoking.