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> But not only HealthKit, The whole 'Kit naming scheme

Apple's been using the "kit" naming convention for a much longer time (AppKit, IOKit, WebKit)--I think it originates in NeXTSTEP, if not earlier.

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...and *kit goes back much further than apple.

Fair point about the series, but apple own i* and *Kit. Anything else?

Oh, and rectangles and apples.

Swiss clocks. Noooo, wait, they lost-or-settled that one because it would look too bad for them to play hardball (as usual) over a public icon that well known.

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