Sure, I hear what you saying but even a crappy diabetic on shots live two decades. The tech hasn't kept me alive, diet and excercise has. Saying the current state of tech must be good because I'm alive doesn't hold, I'm afraid.
I'm concerned with quality of life and convenience. As the other commenter said, if it's something you are doing 10 times a day, thousands of times a year, you want it to be convenient.
Diabetes wears on you. It's the incessant nature of it that hurts.
I look at the devices and think of the HP12B calculator or 37 Signals. Sometimes, a piece of hardware is just suitable for its purpose. Sometimes, less features is better design. Its a small step down a slippery slope between adding Bluetooth and requiring it to access device features.
There's a legitimate philosophy behind not treating medical devices as electronic gadgets.
I'm concerned with quality of life and convenience. As the other commenter said, if it's something you are doing 10 times a day, thousands of times a year, you want it to be convenient.
Diabetes wears on you. It's the incessant nature of it that hurts.