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   Another Angry Woman (stavvers@masto.ai)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 21:22:55 JST Another Angry Woman

   tfw Apple just brick your diabetes monitoring for no goddamn reason whatsoever https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66203549

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     Mirrors And Stuff (mirrorsandstuff@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 21:49:46 JST Mirrors And Stuff

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     @stavvers Apple recently pushed their own in house solution out by a few years because they hadn't figured it out properly (which I respect - development is hard - but maybe don't advertise the feature ahead of time if it's half baked), but breaking a third party one seems deeply bad.

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     poisonwomb@mastodon.social's status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 02:38:54 JST poisonwomb

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     @stavvers nothing here says apple bricked it; it just sounds like a poorly made app no?

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     a wandering happenstance (joxn@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jul-2023 03:09:02 JST a wandering happenstance

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     @stavvers (I have a CGM, but not this brand.)
     The system design is there’s a sensor, which is attached to one’s body, and a display device, which in this case is a mobile phone. The sensor talks to the mobile phone over Bluetooth. It sounds like the system never worked reliably: the phone would lose pairing with the sensor and couldn’t stream data in real time. An app update to enable streaming broke things and Abbott pulled the app (rather than something sensible like roll back the changes). 1/