"You'll use device X or Y, some stuff is in the cloud, but we think that there's kind of a next step that's coming, which is the ability to unify all that data and democratize it, and then add some real value on top. "Most of these things are individual islands," Mehdi says - there are a million options, but they're all siloed to a single platform, app, or gadget.
Jawbone has taken big steps to open its platform, connecting its Up bracelets to other devices and services. This fall alone, Apple and Google have announced ways for app and hardware developers to centralize their data, and dozens of new wearable devices have cropped up in hopes of grabbing the space on your wrist, ankle, face, or clothes to track everything from your steps to your blood glucose levels. It doesn't matter what platform you're on, it doesn't matter what app or device you use.
#Microsoft band live healthier software
Microsoft's plan is as simple as it is large: to be the central repository for all the world's fitness data, to develop and distribute the best hardware and the best software for helping people live healthier lives. "It's the most advanced band we've seen in terms of technology on the wrist," he says, "and it's really designed to do two things: have people live healthier, and be more productive, by having a band that can serve on the opposite side of your watch, worn 24 hours a day, and get some of the most accurate data that you can possibly get." It will be available from Microsoft Stores in the US tomorrow.
He’s wearing the new Microsoft Band, a black $199 wearable that tracks your steps, heart rate, and stride length, all while showing you text, email, and Twitter alerts. Throughout our conversation, he keeps touching his right wrist. Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Devices and Services is explaining Microsoft Health, the company's sprawling new project: a multi-platform system for compiling and analyzing all the world's health data. Yusuf Mehdi is sitting at a conference table at the company's campus in Redmond, WA, crossed legs revealing the sneakers he's wearing, talking to me on Skype as he swipes through a presentation on his Surface. Microsoft's fitness tracking ambitions are not small.
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