Apple announced, through the voice of President Tim Cook, that it will launch new health products in 2019, and this is because the world loves the Apple Watch "with all its heart". Apple stated that it has been working on these new health products for several years, and that it will launched to improve the experience enjoyed by its customers by using them.
Apple has collaborated with various medical institutions that use the ResearchKit platform to gather medical information about their patients, all made possible thanks to the company. In the fall, Apple launched the Apple Watch 4 with a system that allows users to perform electrocardiograms, and for 2019 it is also preparing other new functions for the products.
Apple set out a few years ago to help people lead healthier lives, and the Apple Watch was the first step taken in this direction by the American company. ResearchKit and CareKit were the next steps, both allowing the monitoring of patients of medical institutions, and the gathering of information from them through iDevice/Apple Watches.
On healthcare in particular and your wellbeing, this is an area that I believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, "What was Apple's greatest contribution to mankind," it will be about health . Because our business has always been about enriching people's lives. And as we've gotten into healthcare more and more through the Watch and through other things that we've created with ResearchKit and CareKit and putting your medical records on the iPhone, this is a huge deal. And it's something that is very important for people. We are democratizing it. We are taking what has happened with the institution and empowering the individual to manage their health. And we're just at the front end of this. But I do think, looking back, in the future, you will answer that question, Apple's most important contribution to mankind has been in health.
Apple is one of the companies that invests heavily in research and development, including in the medical field, and for 2019 it has even bigger plans to offer important news for customers. We will learn more about these Apple news either at WWDC 2019 in June or at the conference that will take place this fall.
