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And charge them more, maybe sell some of their personal data too
To who? Say I have an app with 1M downloads. Who do I sell 1M email addresses and the fact they've bought a toothbrush to?
I bought an electric toothbrush from Walmart for $6.99 probably 5 years ago. It takes Oral-B brush heads and AA batteries. It's not capable of using an app. Who know being a tech guy would make me love as-simple-as-possible "retro" devices.
electric and sonic toothbrushes are completely different things. get yourself a sonic one, thank me later
"I'm holding it wrong."
So, I don't use them.
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The same reason your smartwatch and bathroom scale has an app: People want to log and track their health data.
But you're logging actual data with those? Or do they make tooth brushes which monitor your mouth's biome or something like that these days?
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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?
> What they know is how long the toothbrush is on. How are they going to monetize that data? "We noticed that brushing takes you X seconds longer than usual. Do you want to buy new bristles for your tooth brush?" "We noticed you haven't used our tooth brush in a while. Do you want to buy our new tooth brush?" "We noticed that you started brushing your teeth earlier than usual. This probably means that you started a n…
I know this is probably going to land with a thud in this venue, but as a counterpoint to the predictable "why do toothbrushes need an app?!", it should at least be acknowledged that these apps might be the first and only place someone could learn of good oral hygiene.
My question is: why do an Oral-B app and a Colgate app even exist?
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The same reason your smartwatch and bathroom scale has an app: People want to log and track their health data.
But you're logging actual data with those? Or do they make tooth brushes which monitor your mouth's biome or something like that these days?
I'd buy a toothbrush that did that, even if it had "AI" in it's name.
But no, I think it just logs the brush duration and for the more expensive models the "coverage", or something like that.
My question is: why do an Oral-B app and a Colgate app even exist?
My question is: why do an Oral-B app and a Colgate app even exist?
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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?
> What they know is how long the toothbrush is on. How are they going to monetize that data? "We noticed that brushing takes you X seconds longer than usual. Do you want to buy new bristles for your tooth brush?" "We noticed you haven't used our tooth brush in a while. Do you want to buy our new tooth brush?" "We noticed that you started brushing your teeth earlier than usual. This probably means that you started a n…