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sulizilxia
The prescription-only aspect of this is really depressing to me. This is not the road we should be going down.
vivekd
Jonathan Bricker makes an excellent point - since the app has no risks of side effects why bother making it prescription only?
trhway
i guess making it prescription only would make insurance pay for it, thus the app maker can charge something like say several hundred dollars instead of $2.99 if it was an openly available app.
axonic
So... Next, when I write a similar app now it will be classified as some kind of "medical" app and be barred from distribution without a prescription and the years of paying off the FDA for approval? To protect profits of Big Pharma Apps huh? Is this where we're headed?