With a simple firmware update for their devices, the Fitbit company has just offered its smartwatch users blood oxygen measurement option. Fitbit competes directly with Apple and more specifically with the Apple Watch, so any movement of this type can lead to movements in the Cupertino company. The first is that Apple may also be working on this type of measurement to be implemented in its devices and Fitbit came forward to have more media stir and another may be that Apple completely discards this function in its Apple Watch.
Logically we have many more options open in this regard, but it seems strange to us that Apple did not implement this function before other brands and this measurement is not like measuring blood sugar that requires a prick, in this case with a sensor can perform the measurement. On this occasion, Fitbit already has the sensor (hardware) implemented in the watches and with an update of their software they have introduced the function. Several users would already be enjoying these measurements in the three models that add the sensor: the Fibit Ionic, Versa and Charge 3.
We can say that this information is important in many aspects, but especially for a doctor when we go to a visit for respiratory problems. The data is also valuable when we are in places where the altitude prevents us from saturating normally, athletes who practice mountaineering constantly measure this data to acclimatize in the altitude fields. In any case we believe that Fitbit is right to implement this blood oxygen saturation reading function, Apple may implement it in the next Apple Watch Do you think this measurement would be useful?