I am all for anything that makes the management of Type 1 Diabetes easier. But as the previous comment stated, pricking the finger is minor compared to all the other things that are associated with the disease. The article talks about the multi-billion market that is out there, that Apple wants to be a part of. I am also all for making a buck, but I really don't care for the greed that drips from that statement. I, and millions of others with this silent killer disease, would love to see a cure! On the other hand, what would happen to all these companies, i.e. Lilly, Medtronic, Apple, etc, etc, if the cure was found? Granted, I know that they have fingers in other financial pots, but if by 2021, the CGM market alone will reach $17B, that is a huge chunk of money being said good-bye to. I am not a conspiracy theorist, but sometimes I wonder if greed will take over, so that if a cure is found the Big Company(s) step in keep it from being released. Or has it already? Will the cure become like the epi-pen that only costs cents to make, but thousands to get a hold of, and some insurances won't even cover it.

This is only the technical part of the disease. The physical part of the disease is a big money maker as well. What I mean is the food. It costs so much more to buy the healthy food. The only companies who have not seemed to try to make money off the diabetics are gum and J-ELLO. Hershey's and any other company that has produced a sugar free snack, can only seem to do it at the expense of an arm and a leg. To buy a small bag of Hershey's chocolate caramel candy bars--you get about 10 or less in a bag--it costs the same or less to buy a bag of mini-candy bars. We already pay an arm and a leg (or literally feet) just having the disease, why should we have to pay to feel not so left out. I realize that some might think that I am being petty. Maybe I am. But I have had Type 1 for 30 years. I was 14 when I was diagnosed. My youngest sister was diagnosed five years later, and she has been dead for the last 8 1/2 years due to the complications of the disease. I also have a cousin who was diagnosed a few years after my sister was.

With that being said, let's focus on a CURE to put the money into, and not some gadget that may or may not help all of the diabetics out there. Yes, insulin saved a lot of children that were in comas, but with the all the modern research, we already know how to make our lives easier and to live longer. Eventually the disease just takes over, because the body can no longer keep the kidney's from shutting down, the blood vessels in the eyes from popping, the circulation in the feet and legs from slowing down that results in nerve damage, or the heart just giving out. A CURE is where the money needs to really go. (I am finished. Sorry for the novel and the soapbox I have been on since my sister passed away.)

So obviously this is not big news for me because its not really news. Apple has yet to announce anything close to replacing the test strip for diabetics. This is speculation and more hype for Apple as if pricking a finger is the worst thing a diabetic endures. Being type 2 for 15 years I can tell you, the last concern is having to check my glucose with a lancet and test strip. I've seen attempts before and much like the trouble with monitoring pulse through a wrist device. The ideal of a optical system able to accurate check every human's glucose level is also something elusive to technology. Apple may indeed be working on a solution, but we may find the costs and procedures to get this approve through the FDA will be long and full of people who simply won't benefit from it. Personally as a diabetic when I read the headlines some wrote about this. I really thought Apple was actually working on a solution to reverse diabetes and not simply another attempt at making a less evasive test for glucose. I know Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer and all of us diabetics want to live better lives. But Apple is getting far too much credit when credit is not do yet. This is just not big news that Apple is trying again where others have failed. Let's talk about something when Apple actually has success.