Two things which really stood out at Apple's iPhone event was Apple's foray into health & fitness segment with the new motion co-processor M7 and biometric authentication through a new fingerprint sensor called TouchID in its flagship smartphone iPhone 5s. As a quick recap, the new motion co-processor dubbed as M7 works alongside A7, and continuously measures motion data from accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope even when the phone is asleep. However, what makes this interesting is the introduction of new CoreMotion APIs for third party iOS app developers. While the details on these APIs and their capabilities are sparse at the moment, Apple says this can identify user movement and tell apps if the user is stationary, walking or driving among others. It also claimed this feature will enable developers to build a new generation of health and fitness apps. Nike+ Move: Apple also demoed Nike's new app Nike+ Move, which will be the first app to make use of the motion processor M7 and these APIs to allow users keep track of user's activities, track their Fuel points, and also enable them to compete with their friends in Apple's social gaming network GameCenter. While there are several health and fitness tracking apps like Endomondo, Myfitnesspal, Runkeeper and Runtastic among others, the problem with these apps has been that they don't provide accurate tracking and are not smart enough yet to identify user movement i.e. whether I am sitting, running or driving. With the new APIs, we are curious to see if developers are able to build apps…
