"It's the law", but the best you have to go with are a few articles written by people so utterly unfamiliar with the subject matter that they confuse the 'Health' app with the 'HealthKit' API, and describe the HealthKit.com web-site's (unlaunched) product, which will connect doctors and patients, as being similar to the Health app which collects and displays data from various health-related, blue-tooth enabled devices?
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HealthKit Includes Native Bluetooth Support for Some Accessories, Eliminating Need for Companion Apps
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"It's the law", but the best you have to go with are a few articles written by people so utterly unfamiliar with the subject matter that they confuse the 'Health' app with the 'HealthKit' API, and describe the HealthKit.com web-site's (unlaunched) product, which will connect doctors and patients, as being similar to the Health app which collects and displays data from various health-related, blue-tooth enabled devices?
How is Apple suppose to know that 'HealthKit' exists if the company which would like to use it as their trademark doesn't register it????
What, is Apple suppose to just know everything? Does Apple have a magic beans that tell them what is/isn't being used?
Trademarks exist so this doesn't happen. Thats why they were invented.
Again, lesson learned by the startup. Do common sense business practices when starting a company.
And yes it sucks but you can hardly fault Apple in the way you are faulting Apple.
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Cant see my withings scales nor the Jawbone Up! either.
I did downoad the healthkit sample app, deleted it and its recognised in sources.
So im assuming, that somehow developers will need to add the HealthKit ?
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For juvenile Type 1 Diabetics, that is huge. I wonder who they will partner with, Medtronic? I really had no need for this device, but as I test my b/g ~20x/day, if this facilitates that then it will pay for itself.
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This would change, everything.
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Dev should love this because they wont need to worry about hundreds of HR devices out there, they just need to ask healthkit the HR data and use it
Oh, my bad! I assumed it was the bluetooth protocol, I didn't know they made a specification for health data! Should have read more before posting x.x
But why need a third-party app when the hardware will communicate directly with Apple's own solution? From what I understand the Heath App is just like Passport, but for your health. So you only need an app that sends data to that, and you won't need the myriad of 3rd party apps that will essentially do the same thing, maybe with more or less eye candy.
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That is a very good question to which I have no dout Apples stingy way in which they handle Bluetooth connections to common things like adapters
Apple will have to change the name of their API in the end.Apple API is more functional than android.
That is a very good question to which I have no dout Apples stingy way in which they handle Bluetooth connections to common things like adapters
Apple will have to change the name of their API in the end.Apple API is more functional than android.
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