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Apple had previously conducted a clinical study with the Apple Watch on how it might be able to better detect and analyze the wearer’s heart rate. We had also heard that they are planning on donating Apple Watches to a study on binge eating, and it looks like Apple is nowhere close to slowing down.

A report from CNBC has revealed that Apple will be teaming up with Zimmer Biomet for a new clinical study which will see the Apple Watch used to monitor/study patients who have had common knee and/or hip replacement procedures. With an estimated 1 million Americans getting knee and hip replacements a year, and with Zimmer Biomet being one of the biggest manufacturers of reconstructive products, it makes sense that this is an area that Apple might be interested in.

The Apple Watch will be used to help track the steps and heart rate data of patients, which in turn will see that information shared with doctors to give them a better idea of how they’re doing after surgery. For example the number of steps taken could be used to gauge whether or not a patient is experiencing pain, and whether that pain is coming from the procedure or if it could simply be overexertion.

It will be interesting to see what will become of this study, and how the Apple Watch could eventually be updated with new features that cater to such patients. The Apple Watch Series 4 came with some pretty huge improvements over its predecessor, such as fall detection and a built-in ECG monitor.

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Apple’s new iPhones are expensive, with the iPhone Xs Max priced over $1,000. While there will always be a demand for iPhones, the price points will definitely put some customers off, and this is why analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that this could potentially lead to better than expected demand for the iPhone XR.

For those unfamiliar, the iPhone XR is the LCD model of Apple’s 2018 lineup. It is priced starting at $750 which isn’t exactly “cheap” per se, but it is a more affordable model. Plus for the most part it has the same hardware as the iPhone Xs and Xs Max, save for the display type and the camera, but otherwise it will be powered by the same chipset, have Face ID, and so on.

According to Kuo’s predictions, Apple is expected to ship 36 to 38 million iPhone XR units in the fourth quarter of the year, up from 33 to 35 million units from his earlier prediction. Of course shipping numbers doesn’t necessarily translate into actual sales, so it should probably be taken with a grain of salt for now.

Kuo also claims that the iPhone XR could outsell the iPhone 8 from 2017 which was Apple’s slightly more affordable take on the iPhone compared to the iPhone X back then. Whether or not this holds true remains to be seen, but Kuo had also previously stated that Apple is expected to maintain its LCD iPhones even in 2019.

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