Re: Do it right from the start
"Google and Apple are not known for software or device products in the medical field."
Apple Watch has quite a few medical uses. Actually, extremely valuable medical uses that have saved people's lives. Detecting certain heart problems with very high accuracy.
But for the problem at hand, they are together solving a problem that isn't medical at all. The problem is: Notify people who have been close to a person X within the last fourteen days. They know how to use bluetooth, they know how to figure out how close one phone is to another, they know how to run this code while the phone is in your pocket with the screen turned off without eating your battery. They even know how to run this code while your phone has shut itself down because the battery shows 0% charge.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
