[SES1066]

A report earlier this year said Apple has wavered on adding irregular heart rate reporting and other health functionality to the Apple Watch, fearing additional governmental regulation and/or liability for potentially inaccurate results.

To me, this is the operative statement. Every human being varies from the mythical 'norm' and thus is, in some sense, 'abnormal'! 90%+ of the time, this is an insignificant deviation and normal measurements can be used - HOWEVER, the Tort Lobby & bureaucracy absolutely FASTENS upon the abnormal reactions as reasons to award damages or add regulations. The software to cover and properly adjust reporting for non-normal criteria when the subject can be (sorry) normally non-normal, would be fascinating but nothing that I would care to design.

Regretfully, in our voraciously litigious age, this may be a pipe dream!

[Swordmaker]

To me, this is the operative statement. Every human being varies from the mythical 'norm' and thus is, in some sense, 'abnormal'! 90%+ of the time, this is an insignificant deviation and normal measurements can be used - HOWEVER, the Tort Lobby & bureaucracy absolutely FASTENS upon the abnormal reactions as reasons to award damages or add regulations. The software to cover and properly adjust reporting for non-normal criteria when the subject can be (sorry) normally non-normal, would be fascinating but nothing that I would care to design.

You can say that again. . . or maybe you can't. Too confusing to repeat. LOL!