Going head - to - head withApple ’s newly announced HealthKit , Googlehas just revealedGoogle Fit , a physical fitness trailing service service to call its very own .
Google Fit ’s open APIs allow any connected apps and devices to seamlessly partake data , all of which gets suckle up by Google Fit . Fit is speculate to make it easier for you to analyze data from all your various health - tracking apps .
The approximation is that we ’ve reached a pointedness where yearly doctors ’ visit have become mostly obsolete . While there are obvious exceptions , we are perfectly capable of measuring all our vital organ . And Google wants to give us the tools to do it . AsBussinessWeek wrote in a visibility of Sundar Pichai , the chief of Google ’s Android division :
Pichai says it ’s “ crazy ” that hoi polloi visit their doctors , at most , once a year to have their heart rate and blood pressure level measured . “ You patently need to be able to measure these thing so many more times and then apply more intelligence to it , ” he says .
There ’s already a whole slew of third - party developer on board with Google Fit , one of the more notable being Nike , which will allow all the data rain buckets into Google Fit ’s API to desegregate with Nike Fuel , too .
Developers will be getting Google Fit ’s SDK in just a few weeks , but no word on availability for the wellness - concious masses .
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