As part of Apple’s continuing push into revolutionizing personal health and fitness, it looks like the company could soon begin selling actual health accessories designed to work with the Apple Watch, iPhone, and HealthKit.
A new job listing, first spotted by MyHealthyApple, pretty much comes right out and admits that Apple is looking to develop “Apple-branded Health Hardware products,” with the listing looking for an Engineering Project Manager who would lead the initiative.
While Apple has been building an extensive team of doctors and engineers for its health technologies group over the years, most of these have been focused on research and development of software technologies that power the Apple Watch and the Health app within the iOS ecosystem. This latest job posting, however, is the first indication we’ve had that Apple’s health ambitions may indeed be going beyond the software realm.
To be clear, there are already a wide variety of health hardware devices that tie into Apple’s HealthKit ecosystem, from scales to blood pressure monitors and sleep tracking devices, but almost universally, these third-party accessories require you to use their apps, which are also often tied into proprietary cloud services.