Knowing how Apple typically handles its business and product roadmap preparation, it’s not exactly unusual to see insiders, leakers, and analysts try to predict what a future “iDevice” will be all about more than a year in advance of its official announcement and commercial release.
Who wouldn’t want to be able to measure their temperature from the wrist?
Apple Watch Series 7 concept render
At the same time, it’s clearly not easy to develop a reliable, relatively affordable, and especially small enough temperature measuring sensor to be fitted inside an Apple Watch Series 8 that’s naturally expected to retain its forerunners’ key internal components and possibly add more.
The AirPods should provide “health management functions” as well… eventually
It remains to be seen if Samsung and Apple will decide to go toe-to-toe with health-monitoring AirPods and Galaxy Buds models “within two years”, in which case you can definitely expect many other brands to quickly follow suit.
