Among the new crop of device-happy physicians, Dr. Rajkomar is now an elder statesman of sorts, showing trainees his favorite apps, along with shortcuts through the electronic medical record and computerized prescribing system.
Google's recent $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, which makes smartphones, tablets and other gadgets, will enable it to produce a new crop of devices to show off its cloud services, such as Gmail and Google Docs, to best effect.
Samsung getting in among the early crop of device-makers hoping to ride this trend is in keeping with its recent strategy, which seems to be one of putting everything they can out as a shipping product.
That would make about as much sense as this current crop of devices.
There's scope even for the current crop of devices to improve significantly with decent software updates.
That claim could be argued considering the current crop of devices available, but, for a time, Motorola looked like the company to beat when it came to Android.
Why would a potential buyer go and buy a device now knowing the next crop of devices in the fall will carry an updated and arguably better OS that will likely be future proof?
In a separate report, the New York Times claims that the new iWatch will be able to track footsteps and heartrate, with much higher accuracy than the current crop of devices.
Followed by next-gen smart glasses that are a lot more polished and useable than the "clunky" current crop of devices — and therefore more likely to be more widely adopted.
Microsoft now looks to be closing in on a similar strategy of undercutting the high end competition on price — albeit this crop of devices pads out the Windows Phone mid-tier, rather than the high end — a strategy it's able to pursue now that it's in full charge of Nokia's device-making division.
Samsung's Gear Live is the only one in the launch crop of devices to sport an optical heart rate sensor, which is a handy spare feature if you're an athlete or incredibly interested in your fitness levels and activity tracking.
