HealthKit claims Apple stole its name

HealthKit claims Apple stole its name
A healthcare-focused company in Melbourne, Australia is not too happy that Apple has decided to use the name HealthKit in a new API.

Apple unveiled HealthKit for developers to create health and fitness apps for iOS devices that can share data with each other. There's just one problem; there's already a company called HealthKit and they are less than impressed with Apple's borrowing of their name.



"HealthKit is already in use, by us!," a blog post reads.

"Even the way they write it is the same as us. I'm flattered that they like our name so much and that it's a ringing endorsement for our market opportunity (which we already knew). However, as an Apple fan, I feel let down. They didn't feel that they had to do a quick domain search - it would have taken 5 seconds to type www.healthkit.com into their browser and discover us."

The firm also posed a question directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook on Twitter after Apple's WWDC keynote on Monday.





Written by: James Delahunty @ 4 Jun 2014 8:42
Tags
Apple HealthKit
Advertisement - News comments available below the ad

© 2024 AfterDawn Oy

Hosted by
Powered by UpCloud