Apple CEO Tim Cook on his India go to, for the Apple Store launch in Mumbai and Delhi, took a while out to fulfill badminton stars Saina Nehwal, Pullela Gopichand and Parupalli Kashyap.
Apple CEO Tim Cook was eager on witnessing how skilled athletes are utilizing the options of Apple Watch to get extra from their intense coaching classes.
Apple CEO Tim Cook on his India go to, for the Apple Store launch in Mumbai and Delhi, took a while out to fulfill badminton stars Saina Nehwal, Pullela Gopichand and Parupalli Kashyap. The Apple CEO was eager on witnessing how skilled athletes are utilizing the options of Apple Watch to get extra from their intense coaching classes.
He visited the badminton court docket at Mumbai Cricket Association, BKC and even joined Gopichand for a quick badminton session. Later he moved on to work together with children aspiring to comply with within the illustrious footsteps of Gopichand and Nehwal.
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Tim Cook interacted solely with Debashis Sarkar of News18 after a few classes on the badminton court docket. “It’s wonderful to be here. It’s so great to be in India. We’ve looked forward to this week for a long time,” he mentioned.
When requested about how the Apple Watch has been in a position to create an impression on the lives {of professional} athletes and fitness-focused customers, Tim Cook replied, “You know, it started with focusing on wellness and creating the three rings -the move, stand, and your exercise bar. It went from there to heart rate and detecting AFib, and of course notifications came early on as well. And so it has just expanded to cover the waterfront of people’s needs.”
“It’s so great for me to come to India and hear how it’s used in actual training. But I did notice, every day, from people about how the Apple Watch helped them in finding out that they had AFib. And they told me that their doctors told them they would have died if they had not found out about it in time,” he added.
[Tim Cook with badminton stars Saina Nehwal, Pullela Gopichand and Parupalli Kashyap at Mumbai Cricket Association, BKC in Mumbai. (Image: Debashis Sarkar/News18)]
Talking about coronary heart charge monitoring on Apple Watch, the Apple CEO mentioned, “We just keep pulling the string to see where it takes us. One of the athletes here today told me that they use the sleep function a lot, and all of them use the heart rate function to see which heart rate zone they’re operating at. And so, there’s just an enormous amount of functionality in this little thing that you put on your wrist now. It’s fantastic.”
Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap have been utilizing the Apple Watch for fairly a while now to trace their progress whereas coaching.
“I started using the Apple Watch a few years back and kept upgrading as and when a new model got launched. Monitoring heart rate is a very crucial metric to know how well or not you have performed during a particular training session. Earlier, we had to feel the pulse to make an estimate of heart rate but with the Apple Watch, we get accurate heart rate tracking always. It has been very helpful,” Nehwal advised News18.
“The Apple Watch takes care of monitoring aspects of blood oxygen, ECG, heart rate and even sleep. This helps in getting an accurate idea of the level of fitness. We no longer have to use bulky machines for ECG or heart rate, this tiny Watch with its sensors does the job,” mentioned Kashyap.
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While now we have entry to gadgets like Apple Watch in current occasions, Gopichand supplied his perspective on adoption of newer applied sciences. “We have seen fine athletes who made it to the top in the past without having any device like the Apple Watch. Technology plays its part but it’s the individual’s hard work that matters. It feels good to see athletes adopting newer technologies to track minute fitness details, this just emphasises how competitive things have become,” he mentioned.
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