Apple’s Nike+ has been a definite hit with the running crowd. Why wouldn’t it be? It allows you to actually monitor how far you’ve gone on your run and how fast you did it. But with all this GPS technology Apple’s been flinging around, it seems that they’re looking to patten up some more precise real-time tracking shoes. They may even be abandoning working exclusively with Nike. Here’s what the folks over at AppleInsider got word of:

Since, a runner’s stride and stride type can vary over the course of a run (a sprint typically uses more of a toe plant style whereas a power walker would use more of a heel plant style), a user’s running style profile can also vary over the course of the run (as well as well as over the course or months or years, or as the running shoes wear, or between different, but authorized, running shoes). Therefore, in order to more accurately gauge a user’s overall running style, a user’s average running style can be calculated. In some cases, the user’s average running style is accumulated from a number of previous runs using the same running shoe or can incorporate average running styles from different (but authorized) running shoes, if desired. In this way, a user has the ability to compare running styles and/or performance not only from one run to another, but from one running shoe to another, or merely deduce an overall running style regardless of the running shoe used.

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