“Apple is getting itself into the growing health and fitness app category with a platform called HealthKit and an app called, simply, Health,” Wilson Rothman reports for The Wall Street Journal. “The app will aggregate information from various third-party wearable devices and apps.”
“HealthKit will provide a lingua franca for apps to use,” Rothman reports. “It’ll also integrate with medical apps, such as one from the nonprofit Mayo Clinic, which would, with user’s permission, transmit data to physicians so that they can steer their care accordingly.”
Rothman reports, “Apple did not discuss its own health-related hardware development, though an ‘iWatch’ has long been expected, and the iPhone could potentially be used to provide some health information about its user, such as step count.”
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P.S. It won’t help you if your a lazy couch potato. So if you are, get moving already!
how exciting, nice work Tim.
Mr Cook to you.
The Impotent Custodian.
Don’t you mean ‘my gay superhero’ though he’s too shy to say it himself.
Soooooo sorry, botvijerk, that the DEVELOPERS conference didn’t excite you.
Sometimes I want to shake his hand, and other times I want to kick his ass. He can be annoying, but never boring.
Nah. He’s very boring, with his brief “Holy Writ” declarations, never backed by any actual reasoning.
Lol, I misread that as “HeathKit”. I was thinking we were going to be able to build our own Macs.
Today’s kit might include sandpaper for minimizing your fingertips, an eight inch splunger, and a nano-soldering gun.
Stop Ned, you’re killing me! FOTFLU
Apple has got to stop naming its apps so generically that future search is significantly impaired. Ever try to search for help on a “numbers” function or “pages” feature? Good luck wading thru the irrelevant results. “Health” will be an even worse experience.
Like Microsoft did with Surface, Windows, Word, Excel and Office, eh?