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Google Versus Apple: Is Google Fit Better Than Apple HealthKit?

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Google Versus Apple: Is Google Fit Better Than Apple HealthKit?

Staying fit and healthy has become a lot easier these days because of technology and among those that are offered in the market today are Google Fit and Apple HealthKit. These two mobile phone applications make one’s health monitoring very simple and this is almost 100% accurate. But an interesting question here is, is Apple’s offering better than that of Google as far as helping users to manage their health?

Google is currently trying to put together a number of wearable stuff and according to reports, the company will soon launch Android Wear variants while Apple will have its iWatch series. There are also speculations that Apple will have a partnership with the companies United Health Group and Human in order to come up with the best wearables. By the way, these two mentioned companies are the most well-known insurers of today.

It’s also reported that the partnering of Apple with ‘Human’ and ‘United Health Group’ should be watched out by health buffs worldwide because of the great steps that this would offer for mobile applications.

Google Versus Apple: Is Google Fit Better Than Apple HealthKit?On the other hand, Google aims to go above other competitors when talking about activities like Drive and Maps to name two of the company prides. On the Motley Fool website, it’s stated that analysts believe that Google will stay a solid company that will make a close rival of all other smartphone manufacturers-especially in the upcoming health care system to be introduced by Apple called  ‘Apple HealthKit’.

The ‘Google Health’ that was initially Google has come up with aimed to put bring together all details of the user’s health and show them all in one program but this was canceled since there’s a finding that the app didn’t really collect enough data. Soon, the Google Fit app will be introduced to sync all health and fitness applications without the help of the insurer.

The Apple HealthKit app is anticipated by many people because it’s reported that the company has been banking on various factors to would support its health care journey and we’re talking about around 50% of U.S. market shares through ComScore and the popularity of iOS in hospitals that will likely help increase the demand for the company’s wearables.

Apple HealthKit will surely be a hit so if Google  wants to gain total control of the healthcare industry for mobile applications, it needs to fix its fragmentation issues which are the biggest challenges of the company according to the Daze Info report. If in any case that you would have to make a choice, it can be tricky to pick which is the better deal, but most likely, you’ll have a great healthcare app to use given the reputation that the two companies have.