Apple's latest iPhone 5s ad focuses on fitness
During the first game of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday, Apple released an iPhone 5s ad focusing on the handset's ability to link with activity trackers and fitness apps to become an all-in-one digital trainer.
Adding to its latest iPhone 5s TV ad campaign, Apple's most recent advertisement takes the tagline "You're more powerful than you think" more literally by featuring fitness-minded apps and accessories.
The short spot shows off hardware like Misfit's Shine activity tracker and apps like weightlifting trainer Stronglifts set to the 1961 tune "Chicken Fat" by Robert Preston, which was created to as a governmental push to get kids in the U.S. active. The song came to be known as "The Youth Fitness Song."
Along with Stronglifts, the ad covers golfing apps, running apps and more to illustrate how useful the iPhone 5s can be for the active lifestyle set. The smartphone is well-suited to the task being the first Apple device to incorporate the M7 motion coprocessor to aggregate raw data from various onboard motion sensors.
More recently, Apple unveiled a new push into health and fitness at WWDC 2014 with iOS 8's HealthKit and the corresponding Health app. HealthKit is a framework that third-party app and device makers can use to integrate their products with compatible iOS devices. The Health app serves as a central hub and repository for all things health-related including app-generated data, ties into third-party services and fitness tracking, among others.
Apple first introduced the "more powerful" series in April with an ad touting the handset's capability as a multimedia creation tool.
The iPhone 5s advertisement comes on the heels of a report claiming Apple is moving television ad creation in-house in a shift away from longtime partner agency TBWA/Chiat/Day.
Adding to its latest iPhone 5s TV ad campaign, Apple's most recent advertisement takes the tagline "You're more powerful than you think" more literally by featuring fitness-minded apps and accessories.
The short spot shows off hardware like Misfit's Shine activity tracker and apps like weightlifting trainer Stronglifts set to the 1961 tune "Chicken Fat" by Robert Preston, which was created to as a governmental push to get kids in the U.S. active. The song came to be known as "The Youth Fitness Song."
Along with Stronglifts, the ad covers golfing apps, running apps and more to illustrate how useful the iPhone 5s can be for the active lifestyle set. The smartphone is well-suited to the task being the first Apple device to incorporate the M7 motion coprocessor to aggregate raw data from various onboard motion sensors.
More recently, Apple unveiled a new push into health and fitness at WWDC 2014 with iOS 8's HealthKit and the corresponding Health app. HealthKit is a framework that third-party app and device makers can use to integrate their products with compatible iOS devices. The Health app serves as a central hub and repository for all things health-related including app-generated data, ties into third-party services and fitness tracking, among others.
Apple first introduced the "more powerful" series in April with an ad touting the handset's capability as a multimedia creation tool.
The iPhone 5s advertisement comes on the heels of a report claiming Apple is moving television ad creation in-house in a shift away from longtime partner agency TBWA/Chiat/Day.
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Apple HealthKit stuns startup: ‘That’s our name’ http://nyp.st/1mTPR1m
I predict HealthKit will be getting a huge cash infusion soon.
Apple is hinting at a health device such as an I watch.
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Is it trademarked? The story doesn't say.
I predict HealthKit will be getting a huge cash infusion soon.
That’s one of the perks of being a multinational tech giant and the most valuable company in the world. Nobody would ever confuse Apple’s healthkit with this Australian outfit’s product. So just wave some cash in front of their noses and make them go away.
I like it.This is why I think healthkit is a big deal. A framework that collects all the data from all these disparate wearables and health apps that brings it all together and makes it all cohesive. A third party could have come out with something similar, but that it is part of the OS makes it easier for all the apps and devices to come together to give you the bigger picture instead of there being a kinda of chaos. It seems obvious now, this kind of unification, but Apple did it first, and it is only a matter of time that Android and Windows phone offer the same.
Also, Apple's "Healthkit" is not a consumer facing brand. It's strictly a developer API/service from what I can tell.
The consumer facing App is called Health.
Apple's HealthKit is a collection of APIs, that company is named HealthKit. There's a difference. Also, they're Australian and I doubt they applied for a registered trademark in the US. Regardless, Apple will probably pay them for a license to the name so there will be no legal trouble in the future.
Note the actual app is simply titled Health. After looking at their site I don't see how this Australian company could possibly win a case against Apple about using the same name for a collection of APIs that iOS developers may use within an app. Their HealthKit is an app directed at healthcare professionals. In no way could be there be an trademark confusion.
Ha, chicken fat. What a completely weird yet awesome song. I hope one day we'll hear the story behind Apple picking these slightly dangerous songs (remember the Pixies song about the big load?)
My brain automatically replaced the word 'fat' with something somewhat ruder...
I'm not sure that's going to sit well with Apple's customers - it's a bit insulting.
Indeed. When all is said and done, Apple may just tell this company to get bent. ????
The vast majority wouldn't know that. Hell, I had to Google the Pixies song.
So now we have to wait for the inevitable post which lists all the apps that are used in the commercial. Or will we have to depend on Apple to do it for us?