>>ResearchKit is effectively a tool for recruiting subjects for medical research, and collecting data from volunteers. According to Tim Cook, this addresses serious difficulty researchers have getting enough volunteers.<<
“Volunteers” - for now.
Remember apple is one of the most liberal companies on the planet. How long until it works with the Big Government it loves so much (which has placed it in a competitive position since its products are more expensive than good) to just start pulling data?
Not very — in fact they have 2 long years to exactly that.
Only a fool would wear an apple wrist monitor ever — but that never stopped an apple fanboy before.
ResearchKit must naturally include a set of functions for hoovering up data, which could then be activated by software to report to the Mothership - just like other programs to exploit smartphones which Snowden exposed.
They will assure folks that it is for a good cause - refining Apple products and profits, along the way. They probably want to automatically gobble up all the personal data that they can - like they were Google or something.
More of your mis-information. You don't use Apple products so you don't know whether they are good or bad. you just lie. You know the price of everything but the value of nothing. Nothing at all.
What you also apparently don't know, is that Apple has put ResearchKit in Open Source.
I won't go into your idiocy. . . it's self apparent from all of your previous posts on Apple threads.