Apple’s AI doctor

Also: A new iPad Pro is coming.

Hey everyone, it's Mark. Apple is preparing its biggest health care push to date with a revamped app and AI doctor service. Also: The company is testing an M5 iPad Pro for release as early as this year, its 2025 developers conference gets scheduled for June, and a new global head of retail stores is appointed. Last week in Power On: Apple is working on turning its smartwatches into AI wearables with built-in cameras. Power On is now exclusively for Bloomberg.com subscribers. Get the full Power On newsletter every week — plus unlimited access to every featured article and a Q&A with me — when you subscribe to the Tech Newsletter Bundle.

The Starters

Tim Cook showcases the expansion of Apple Fitness+. Photographer: Brooks Kraft/Apple Inc. Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has maintained that, when all is said and done, his company's greatest contribution to society will be in health care.  It's a bold statement for a company best known for consumer devices (albeit, one that has made forays into everything from Hollywood movies to financial services). It's even bolder when you consider that the Apple Watch has yet to live up to the dream of becoming a "medical lab on your wrist" and the company's Health app is still fairly rudimentary. But the company has some moon-shot initiatives in the works that could indeed transform the health industry. That includes a...

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