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Apple's focus is on "average" people, not people with diabetes.

Also it saddens me to hear "I hope that company X will solve Y" instead of "I hope some university develops a method to solve Y".

Diabetes is becoming more and more common, especially in the US. It also could be used for monitoring healthy people so they don’t fall into T2 diabetes. The problem is, at the current technology level it might not be possible. Johnson&Johnson tried to do that for decades and failed.

I doubt that the apple watch will be able to do this reliably.

But if someone is interested (speak investment interested) in non-invasive blood glucose measurement feel free to inquire. Peer reviewed publications available.

Even if they could, reporting on medical information has very large consequences if the information is wrong. I don't imagine it would be worth it to them to enter that arena.

We already have continuous blood sugar monitors that are good, and work with Apple Watch. The invasiveness of the patch is not a big deal in my opinion given the benefits.