Apple has been making a few hires recently that should make people sit up and take note. These new team members include medical technology executives that may be aiding Apple in developing biotechnology for devices like the iWatch and other wearable devices from the maker of the iPhone. In the past year, Apple has hired at least six of the most prominent experts in the field of biomedicine. Additionally, Apple has been bringing hardware experts and other medical professionals on board.
These new hires all have skills in sensor technology. This kind of focus in hiring and researching may have to do with the Chief Executive of Apple, Tim Cook making a statement last year that the sensor technology aspect of his company was ready “to explode.” It seems that Apple has it in mind to find ways for technology to sensor and work with your body to do various tasks like monitor blood sugar levels and assess nutrition in new ways that go beyond what current fitness technology is able to accomplish. Malay Gandhi is the chief strategy officer at Rock Health, a venture capital firm in San Francisco that has backed other prominent wearable tech start ups. Gandhi has been watching Apple’s hiring choices closely and notes, “this is a very specific play in the biosensing space.” Apple is really pushing to hire and make moves on a bio-sensing product because of Cook’s promise to deliver a device. Apple hasn’t made a new device since 2010, when they introduced the iPad. Investors still believe in Apple, but time is passing by and the technology needs to show that they are still issuing new products to keep investors around. By the end of this year we should see some evidence that Apple is working on a new line of devices. The watch is most likely the next product to appear. Apple has already registered the “iWatch” trademark in Japan and it will probably make its way here soon.
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