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"Apple unveiled its new HealthKit fitness platform at WWDC on Monday (June 2) but a start-up claims the name was its first. HealthKit is an Australian start-up which offers patient management software for doctors similar to what Apple plans to launch.  The company registered healthkit.com in 2012 and has also operated the @healthKit Twitter account since then. Apple&amp;#039;s HealthKit offering is an API developers can use to keep track of any personal health history. The API will also make it possible for medical databases to communicate with your iPhone. Co-founder Alison Hardacre said she was shocked to receive emails from someone asking if &amp;quot;Apple stomped all over your name or did we do a secret deal with them&amp;quot;. Feeling annoyed #Apple is using our #HealthKit name for their new health product! @tim_cook r u aware of this? @healthystartups #rockhealth \u2014 HealthKit (@HealthKit) June 3, 2014 &amp;quot;HealthKit is already in use, by us! Even the way they write it is the same as us,&amp;quot; Hardacre wrote in a blog post.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m flattered that they like our name so much and that it&amp;#039;s a ringing endorsement for our market opportunity (which we already knew). However, as an Apple fan, I feel let down.&amp;quot; Despite a Twitter campaign urging the iPhone maker to change the name of its fitness platform, Apple is yet to make contact with HealthKit. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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