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The health and fitness tracking category is still in its infancy, but it's already getting crowded
Google announced this week during its Google I/O Developers Conference an initiative called Google Fit for Android that will serve as a fitness and health tracking platform across various platforms and wearables. The news, of course, comes just a few weeks after Apple launched HealthKit for developers that will do something very similar: provide a hub for users to keep track of fitness goals and health-related information.
Third-party app developers say they couldn't be happier that Google and Apple are joining the race to capture and make the most out of aggregating fitness data. Perhaps learning from past iOS/Android platform wars, many health and fitness apps planning to support both platforms, rather choosing one over the other. That's good news, presumably, for consumers, but it does mean extra work for the developers. Health and fitness developers will now need to create their own app and also look at integrating that app with both Google Fit and HealthKit Read more...
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