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Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
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Re: Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
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That’s actually kind of cool. That’s exactly the sort of feedback that gets me to do things correctly. Detailed feedback has enabled me to consistently work out, wake up early and eat healthy. They’ve helped me keep those good habits going for 4 years now. I’m the kind of guy these apps are built for.
I am really interested, what do you use for waking up early?
I use the wind down reminder on the Apple health app under sleep. This gives you a wind down reminder 45 mins before you need to be in bed. I built a habit to drop whatever I’m doing to start getting ready for bed at that point. I turn on sleep focus on my Apple Watch as I go to sleep and seeing that I’ve slept 7.5-8 hours under the health app (along with the deep/core sleep breakdown) gamifies this for me.
Right before I sleep I also do 4-7-8 interval breathing in bed that slows down my heart rate and gets me calm and sleepy. I use a simple app called iBreathe for that. This breathing session also lets my Apple Watch give me an accurate reading for my heart rate variability (HRV) that gamifies this for me.
Re: Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
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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.
Not that I am the world's brightest parent, or anything, but trainiing your kids to do tasks with media consumption as a reward seems like a remarkably bad idea, given how influencing that can be.
Influencing? Ya, that's the point, influencing them to have good behaviors. Do you reward your children with broccoli?
Re: Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
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Probably an accelerometer.
I could see that working if your head is locked in a vise, but otherwise that's hard to believe.
I think it would be quite accurate if you parse based on training data, think about how we brush our teeth and the relatively consistent and unique angles and accelerations.
Maybe not from brushing one tooth but brushing the whole mouth you'd get a pretty good picture I'd say. The app would justify itself if it did give you a rough map of how you brushed your teeth and suggest areas that you're missing/if it's being done incorrectly.
Re: Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not that I am the world's brightest parent, or anything, but trainiing your kids to do tasks with media consumption as a reward seems like a remarkably bad idea, given how influencing that can be.
Influencing? Ya, that's the point, influencing them to have good behaviors. Do you reward your children with broccoli?
No. I taught my kid that everything should not be followed by a reward, especially things like basic hygiene. Most tasks of that nature are things we all have to do to be members of a functioning society. He has a pretty good grasp on that as an adult.
He's a professional chef now, the first in our family to finish college, so I think it turned out pretty good.
Re: Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colgate's app even bigger..?
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To collect data so they can do marketing and advertising to customers.
How does that work here? Say I have that toothbrush, the app, and say I had to sign up to use it. What they know is how long the toothbrush is on. How are they going to monetize that data?
That sort of data can be extremely useful to pattern someone. Most people brush their teeth either in the morning, or before bedtime (or both ideally.) So just knowing _when_ they're brushing their teeth you can determine their sleep pattern, and thus match that up somewhat to a timezone. On it's own this isn't incredibly useful, but combined with some other data it becomes a lot more useful to identify someone.