Post by max23 on Jan 18, 2021 7:07:38 GMT -5
According to an article on the BBC News website, there's room for improvement. The first few paragraphs of the article are quite amusing:
"When journalist Orla Barry received a notification from her iPhone informing her that her period was due 'any day in the next three weeks', she shared it on social media with wry amusement.
It wasn't the first time she'd received such an unspecific notification from the app, and it prompted others to share their stories.
'I got one which said my period was 56 days late,' wrote one.
'My notification said 'the next nine days',' said another.
One man said his smartwatch had a menstruation tracker activated by default when he got it, and it kept telling him his period was 'due' - despite him never having had one."
The article observes that the more data women input into an app, the more likely it is that the app will accurately predict ovulation and period start dates. The downside is that there are concerns about what else the data can be used for by app developers.
According to the article, the tracking app Clue has about 13 million users worldwide. In 2016, it had about five million users, so that's a fairly large increase over the last four years.
Link: "Are women let down by period trackers?": www.bbc.com/news/technology-55146149
"When journalist Orla Barry received a notification from her iPhone informing her that her period was due 'any day in the next three weeks', she shared it on social media with wry amusement.
It wasn't the first time she'd received such an unspecific notification from the app, and it prompted others to share their stories.
'I got one which said my period was 56 days late,' wrote one.
'My notification said 'the next nine days',' said another.
One man said his smartwatch had a menstruation tracker activated by default when he got it, and it kept telling him his period was 'due' - despite him never having had one."
The article observes that the more data women input into an app, the more likely it is that the app will accurately predict ovulation and period start dates. The downside is that there are concerns about what else the data can be used for by app developers.
According to the article, the tracking app Clue has about 13 million users worldwide. In 2016, it had about five million users, so that's a fairly large increase over the last four years.
Link: "Are women let down by period trackers?": www.bbc.com/news/technology-55146149
