'Handful' of Reported Layoffs at Apple Could Mean a More Robust Health App Coming Soon

Reported layoffs at Apple are bolstering rumors that disparate health and fitness features may soon be consolidated into Apple’s Health app.

Apple tends to avoid huge, headline-grabbing rounds of job cuts . As crushing as job losses are for the people involved, they at least tend not to be giant signals to cynical investors about large-scale spending, and more like smaller scale stories that—if you read the tea leaves just right—can provide some granular insight about what’s going on. That appears to be the case with a small round of layoffs at Apple Fitness+ reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman .