Bug infects Apple's iOS 8 HealthKit, delaying third-party app launches<article>
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A bug in Apple’s HealthKit—a back-end feature in iOS 8—is delaying the launch of outside developers’ fitness and health apps, the company said Wednesday.</p><p>
HealthKit is a new tool for developers in iOS 8 designed to let their apps talk to Apple’s native health apps. HealthKit is meant to pull in information from other apps and devices, like calories burned or heart rate, and make it more useful. For instance, it could allow a nutrition app, with the user’s permission, to tell other fitness apps how many calories the person consumes in a day, Apple says.</p><p>
It can also let data like blood pressure be shared automatically with a doctor.</p><p>
“It just might be the beginning of a health revolution,” as Apple
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Bug infects Apple's iOS 8 HealthKit, delaying third-party app launches
