It turns out it wants to help Fanboys find their roots.and conduct scientific experiments on them.

Under an apps developed as part of ResearchKit, Apple develops data from devices’ sensors or through surveys and ships them off for medical experiments.

The first five ResearchKit apps, including one calledmPowerthat tracks symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, quickly recruited thousands of participants in a few days,demonstrating the reach of Apple’s platform.

Getting iPhone owners to submit DNA samples to researchers would put Apple’sinto the centre of a widening battle for genetic information collection.

The US government are all trying to get mega-databases of gene information to find clues about the causes of disease but this is a case of a big multi-national doing the same thing with a bit of profit on the side.

Apple isn’t going to directly collect or test the DNA, it has signed up a few business chums who will do that. The data would be maintained by scientists in a computing cloud. Apple is touting the adventure as making it possible for consumers might swipe to share “my genes” as easily as they do their location.

Apple has hinted that the company’s eventual aim is to “enable the individual to show and share” DNA information with different recipients, which sounds a lot more erotic than it really is.

Of course if Apple knows your DNA it knows everything about you and while some fanboys thing that would be a great idea, it is only a matter of time before someone works out that is only any good if Apple is a truly benevolent company which cares for its users, pays its taxes and always does the right thing.

Someone in the office pointed out that the last time I did a Nintendo in the doorway of the local Apple store on my way home from the local bar I was leaving a DNA sample.  Still don’t understand why the genius called the police.