Mark Grunt reveals how the Appel engineers working on the company’s secret project work: the puncture-free blood glucose meter for the Apple Watch.
Within a technology company like Apple, there are different groups that work on projects of all kinds: updates to current products, new products that will soon be launched, and top secret projects that may never see the light of day or the bombardment of the company’s future. Gurman revealed to us in his weekly newsletter how these work, small groups that operate independently from the rest of the company and that they could have projects as important as the famous non-invasive glucose sensor for the Apple Watch in their hands in a few years.
A group made up of a few hundred employees and called the “Exploratory Design Group” (XDG), which differs in its operation from the “Special Design Groups”bigger and working on projects like the Apple Car, or the “Technology Development Groups” made up of thousands of workers and who are working on the virtual reality goggles that we will supposedly see this summer.
Small XDGs are working groups that operate like small startups with all kinds of resources to develop ideas of all kinds, but always new, some of which will go forward while others will eventually be rejected. Some of these XDRs run on newer, more efficient and longer-lasting battery designs, or on low-power processors, and of course, the aforementioned blood glucose meter. These groups are independent of the others, they are like a “mini Apple” in which their members work in projects so secret that they cannot be discussed with anyone outside of this working group. There are people who belong to various XDGs, but they have to keep all their projects secret.
