Apple users are now excited again for the new devices introduce by the company. The company is now exploring deeper to two new areas: connected health and the so-called smart home.
Together with its operating system updates for mobile and desktop machines, Apple’s confidential plan was first heard from the person briefed on the product, that the company plans to introduce its new health product at the annual developer’s conference on Monday. Health-tracking app works on mobile devices that will track statistics for health or fitness, like a user’s footsteps, heart rate and sleep activity.
This health app will get its date from third-party fitness and health-monitoring hardware but it can also be connected to a smart watch that Apple plans to release this year.
"Apple always has the potential to turn a niche into a mainstream proposition when it enters a market," said Jan Dawson, a telecom analyst for Jackdaw Research. "I think Apple's entry could really transform both the health and fitness device space and the smart home market."
Apple will not be the first company to produce health devices. Samsung has also highlighted its efforts in the connected health space.
Last week at media event in San Francisco, Samsung said that it would provide developers, hardware makers, and medical professionals with platform that would push forward the idea of "intelligent digital health." Software developers who heard the rumors had mixed reactions.
Paul Haddad, maker of Twitter app Tweetbot, said he thought that Apple’s move into health would catch more interest in health-monitoring applications and devices as a whole.
"An Apple-provided health application will bring a lot more attention to the benefits that tracking your health data on a smartphone can provide," he said. "This means that the overall market for health-style apps will grow significantly."
However, Haddad was not interested in the new smart home platform because he thought the category would attract many customers. "None of the existing smart home devices seem to have enough of a market," he said.
For example, Nest has sold at least 440,000 of its Protect smoke detectors - nowhere close to the millions of apps that developers hope to sell, he said. Some said that Apple doesn’t earn a good reputation in terms of partnership with other company.
"In the end, rich people are the ones interested in having their lights being turned on automatically," Casasanta said. "The average person doesn't want or need that. That's what it really comes down to."
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