My question is: why do an Oral-B app and a Colgate app even exist?
Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
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#12More embarrassing than the size itself is that it is supposedly required to change the mode of the toothbrush. I truly do not think this should be allowed, but I’m not sure how to approach enforcing it.
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#14Unrolled: https://unrollnow.com/status/1828490449881047401
Seems to have been HN'ed to death:
> Connection failed: User 'uxxxxxxx_unroll' has exceeded the 'max_connections_per_hour' resource (current value: 500)
(Is that a MySQL error?)
Re: Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
#15>The only other nodes that jump out is the `Comino.bundle` (15 MB), which has files like `20class_seqlen26_6p5h_20200302-095627_comino_android_production` Guessing these are some sort of model weights Fuck you. A "toothbrush app" which shouldn't exist in the first place CANNOT justify AI anything. What an indictment of our entire industry, nobody stopped this at any point. Nobody said "no we can't justify doing this…
Nobody said you should get riled up for something that does not affect you in the slightest, unless you want it to.
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#16My question is: why do an Oral-B app and a Colgate app even exist?
to log how well you're brushing your teeth, so it can advise you on how to brush your teeth better, so you can have better teeth and not have to see the dentist. it's a late stage technology thing.
I wasn't born with an innate ability to know how to brush my teeth or how to shave (my electric razor also has an app), I had to learn how. If the devices I use can tell that I'm using them wrong, and there's a better way to do things, it's nice to have it tell me.
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#17So it’s all just stupidly big PDFs used as images of the different models? Not what I was expecting. I was expecting it to be more like the Colgate app mentioned later in thread.
I wonder if they generated the PDFs with a web browser's Print to PDF feature. Chrome's PDFs are massive.
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#18So it’s all just stupidly big PDFs used as images of the different models? Not what I was expecting. I was expecting it to be more like the Colgate app mentioned later in thread.
I was expecting the usage of Unreal Engine. Last time I checked the minimal app was more than 200MB.
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#19The real question is why do toothbrushes need apps in the first place?
the one reason I have used the app is for my kids. it plays animations while they brush and keeps stats and let's them pick avatar colors and stuff as rewards.
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#20My question is: why do an Oral-B app and a Colgate app even exist?
To collect data so they can do marketing and advertising to customers.