Apple Gets Into Fitness Tracking With Health App and HealthKit for iOS 8

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Apple announced its foray into the fitness tracking space on Monday with its new Health app coming to iOS 8.

During a keynote presentation at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center in San Francisco, the company introduced new features coming to the next-generation software for the iPhone and iPad

While the app itself is called Health, the back-end gets the name HealthKit.

The app can record steps taken, heart rate and other key factors about your health, acting as a hub for your daily activity.

The fitness monitoring app will likely go head-to-head with wristband trackers like the Fitbit and Jawbone, but having access to vital health data would be relatively new to smartphones. Read more...

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