New I-Phone Application tracks menstrual cycles

[Holly_Hobby]

The application, which will be available through Apple’s App Store in the next few days, enables users to keep a close eye on the mood swings, headaches and food cravings that often occur at “that time of the month”. Men can use it to be ‘forewarned’ of impending PMS-related issues, while women can use it to monitor their own cycle or that of others.

The app takes its inspiration from PMS Buddy’s free online service, which it claims is “saving relationships, one month at a time!” and has more than 150,000 registered users.

However, Jordan Eisenberger, founder and chief executive of PMS Buddy, told Cnet that the application was genuinely useful and not offensive to women.

“Women don’t appreciate it when you come home and maybe things are a little tense and the man says ‘Hey, do you have PMS?’” he said. “So we thought, ‘wouldn’t it be funny to automate it and make it available to the masses,” said Eisenberg.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/apple/4528232/New-iPhone-application-tracks-menstrual-cycle.html

[Jamastiene]

1. I don't need no stinking phone to tell me when I'm hurting like a sombitch and

hate everything that moves. My own body can do that, tyvm. Fuck you, Apple. -|--

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

2. I totally expected to see a link to the Onion. Wrong. Mind boggling. nt

[Kalyke]

3. You know what causes PMS? The levels of estrogene dropping

so that all we're left with is testosterone and progesterone. In other words, we act like men that time of the month.

:P

[Heidi]

4. Are there actually husbands and boyfriends who don't know when our periods are???

Or is my husband just particularly coachable?

[seabeyond]

5. men are really working too hard to sneer at their women, all women. fuck them....

glad they think it is such a hoot. i think it is offensive as hell and absolutely disrespectful. a theme going thru the male gender.

[Donnachaidh]

6. So when can we expect the software that will track roid rage and blue balls?

Or is this just another useless software developed by men to keep an eye on *their* womenfolk?

[dbonds]

7. I expected this to be satire

:wow:

[cobalt1999]

8. If you combine it with the new Google Latitude application

then you can see where all the women with PMS are, right on your iPhone.

[Gin]

9. beam me up Scotty!

[tuvor]

10. Such applications have been around for years for the Palm.

That it's "news" now only speaks to the power of Apple's clout.

http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.answernew&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&keyword=MENSTRUAL