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

[napscoordinator]

You really should at least have an Apple Laptop......you will NEVER get a virus. I have had all Apple products for 5 years and NEVER had a virus with any of them. Back in the day with other laptops, it was virus daily and that is with highest security. I don't ever see myself going back to anything but Apple. Oh and this little article is just that an article stating that they have purchased the patent so the other companies don't try and steal their ideas. They probably have millions of Patent's in their inventory.

[Poison Pill]

A portable, nagging busybody

iExwife

[AlaskaErik]

Pull that kind of crap on me and I’ll dump my iPhone so fast.

[RegulatorCountry]

All the monitoring has gotten obnoxious. If someone wants to participate in such a health-monitoring system and elects to do so, that’s one thing. But being forced to input data in order to continue using the phone regardless is a recipe for losing customers, no matter how good the device itself may be otherwise.

[tacticalogic]

Businesses often patent ideas they will never use

What's disturbing is that they had the idea in the first place.

[I want the USA back]

Like hell they will!
have anything to do with their top guy being a member of a privileged minority?

[Caipirabob]

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.

I could not say it better.

[Caipirabob]

Better yet - The phone could begin a conversation on race!!!

[1FreeAmerican]

That is because the market share of Mac’s was too small for hackers to bother with. Why spend you time writing malicious code for 5% of the computers when you can write for 95%?

[Argus]

Does the Siri nanny come with Moochelle ‘s voice or Hillary’s?

“Comrade Smith! Drop that Big Mac!”

[bgill]

Where’s the app to send your NSA snoop a cyber hug?

[Axenolith]

Opportunity to short!

[CommerceComet]

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.

Why do I see the federal government jumping all over this and mandating it for all people who are enrolled in ObamaCare? I can see it now:

Thank you, Mr. Johnson for your latest upload of personal health data. We have scheduled you for a meeting with the End-of-Life Transition Panel for 3:00 tomorrow. Do not be late.

[wildbill]

Better sell your Apple stock.

The first time someone gets a message that “You must lose one pound before you can make another call. Thank you for staying Green and for your cooperation.” they will throw their Iphone away.

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. If this idea is implemented, it will generate a lot of complaints and probably lawsuits.

[Swordmaker]

This article is about a patent application made by Apple for reminders that require user input before they will allow continued operation of the iOS device. Some people have claimed that Apple will be installing these on ALL iPhones, but that is not the case. They will be user options in SETTINGS as to whether they are turned on or not. Apple makes thousands of patent applications every year, many of which never materialize as a product or in software.

However, this invention could be very useful in some applications for research, record keeping for business, or even the health apps, where consistent data inout is important to the user and they user is willing to follow through with the insistent reminder requirement. — PING!

Apple Reminder Patent Application Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[CodeToad]

Apple has always been the liberal product. With a mentally ill homosexual at the helm this is to be expected.

[Swordmaker]

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.

Such minor controls as who turns it on or off, and when, would not be included in a patent application. The point of the patent is what it does and what purpose it fulfills and how it does it. This article based on Rush Limbaugh's comments and the patent application is not on how Apple will implement the actual invention if and when they do. Apple will make it user friendly. It's what they do. They will not make it an irritation to all users. They know better than that.

[Swordmaker]

I would keep the iPhone I’ve got until the time comes to replace it, and I would not give them accurate info until then. But I’d never get another, if this is the case.

You are not giving Apple anything. The data is for YOU. Why lie to yourself?

Apple doesn't get this information ever. HealthKit is designed to provide YOU information on your self. Apple is not interested in amassing information on its customers. That WOULD make Apple susceptible to the HIPAA laws. They do not want to be under those regulations. . . and as they have said, they are not in the business of collecting customer data.

[Shimmer1]

Why lie to myself? I’m hardly lying to myself, Swordmaker. I merely said what I would do if this turned out to be true.