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Title: Health app finds Apple Watch inspires people to be more health-conscious Post by: HCK on July 11, 2015, 09:00:11 am Health app finds Apple Watch inspires people to be more health-conscious
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Smartwatches and fitness bands promise to help you get healthier, but about a third of wrist-worn activity trackers are abandoned after six months (http://www.startribune.com/strong-sales-but-high-abandonment-for-fitness-trackers/312734521/). One health app developer decided to see if the Apple Watch was a different story, or if Apple’s watch would be relegated to a junk drawer with other unwanted tech two months in.</p><p>The team at Hello Heart (https://helloheartapp.com/), an app that helps iPhone and Apple Watch owners monitor their blood pressure, found that watch owners were more engaged with their health than iPhone-only users. More than 70 percent of Hello Heart’s survey sample of 2,000 Apple Watch users still track their blood pressure on the watch nine weeks after buying the device.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2946100/health-app-finds-apple-watch-inspires-people-to-be-more-health-conscious.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Health app finds Apple Watch inspires people to be more health-conscious (http://www.macworld.com/article/2946100/health-app-finds-apple-watch-inspires-people-to-be-more-health-conscious.html#tk.rss_all) |