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Personal health advisor at fingertips now :FitCirlce app
New Delhi:Tired of visiting clinics and seeking appointments with doctors? Well, here is an app that provides you with best health solutions. On a single touch comes your rescuer to avoid doctors and clinics. Tap on to Fitcircle, a chat based health and fitness app which provides free coaching to individual customers.
In today’s fast paced world, apps like FitCircle are a boon for time-strapped people. Started in 2013 with a different brand name, the app was relaunched few weeks ago to encourage people to adopt fitness as a way of life – instead of treating fitness as an
added chore in one’s daily regime.
“Ideally, you don’t want to visit the doctor daily but you want guidance from heath and wellness coach on a regular basis. Fitcircle provides easy to do, quick home workouts through chat and also shares a continuous wellbeing assessment of the user through a combination of smart chat-bots and human experts,” FitCircle founder Aarti Gill told
IANS.
FitCircle focuses on preventive steps rather than curative solutions. Aiming to reduce the effort to visit doctors daily, the app has come up with a team of expert coaches, nutritionists and health advisors who provide personalized advices to users for free.
“We believe a lot of doctor’s visits can just be reduced if we create a strong ecosystem of experts and motivation engine in health and fitness,” Gill maintained.
The app has also introduced chat-bots, for easy and better communication between its users and health advisors.
“To cater to its customers more effectively, FitCircle has developed innovative chat bots for automated tracking, monitoring and engagement. The unique combination of Experts and bots enables the company to offer global users instant, high-quality advice anytime, even at the upper scale. FitCircle has also optimized the behavioral triggers that keep users engaged and motivated to achieve their fitness goals,” Gill added.
According to its founder, youngsters, who are now-a-days extremely health conscious make for the largest user group. The app has been a great attraction with people aged between 18 and 35.
“A majority of the users come to achieve the following goals – weight loss, weight gain, muscle toning. We have also seen a rise in users who are looking for Sports Nutrition guidance. The experts guide them on diet, workouts and other healthier options that they can adopt. We also create goal based support groups so that people can help each other in adopting a healthier lifestyle,” Gill pointed out.
So, how does the app function?
FitCircle creates daily challenges for workouts and nutrition – and enables users to track their activities through their smartphones.
“Users can log on and discuss their health problems via a one-on-one chat which is completely confidential. After a thorough analysis of their problems by a team of experts, users get a list curated health choices and a personalized solution to tackle their health problem head-on,” Gill added.
Asked what makes FitCirlce stand apart from other fitness apps, Gill replied: “Other fitness apps mainly concentrate on tracking and other automated features and charging consumers for expert guidance. FitCircle provides expert guidance for free. We are changing the way the industry operates.”
FitCircle has created an ecosystem of experts, private social support groups, products- all keeping in mind what is best for the user. The app also aims at making group fitness fun by making goal based private support-groups where users can encourage each other to keep at it.
Not just health aware users, but many corporate companies are now jumping on the technology bandwagon to encourage employees to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Gill added that the app has been adopted by corporate houses like P&G, Medtronic and Nielsen, FoodPanda who are offering these services to their employees in order to encourage employee health and wellness.
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Casino Days Reveal Internal Data on Most Popular Smartphones
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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