Apple is at risk of being sued for using the name 'HealthKit'.

Apple has just announced the HealthKit application, a public health center integrated on iOS 8 mobile platform, but this name is the same name as a startup company in Australia and business in the field of similarity. self.

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No one discovered this until HealthKit complained on his Twitter that " there is a sense of discomfort " about the problem of duplicate names.

HealthKit is an Australian startup, they also own the HealthKit.com domain and Twitter HealthKit account. The company was born long before Apple introduced HealthKit application on iOS 8 and works in the field of monitoring and health management.

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Alison Hardacre , the co-founder of the company, said at first they were quite excited to see Apple like its name, but it took only 5 seconds to type " HealthKit.com " into the browser and find a company. is using this name, but Apple still uses it without giving any agreement.

Back in July 2012, with the same problem, Apple paid $ 60 million to Proview in exchange for the right to use the " iPad " name in the Chinese market. Perhaps history is repeating with " HealthKit ", it is not clear how Apple will respond this time.

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