Comments on: Will Mobile/Wireless Apps Be the Breakthrough for Retail eHealth & Remote Monitoring? http://e-CareManagement.com/will-mobilewireless-apps-be-the-breakthrough-for-retail-ehealth-remote-monitoring/ Chronic Disease Management • Technology • Strategy • Issues and Trends Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:15:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Vince Kuraitis http://e-CareManagement.com/will-mobilewireless-apps-be-the-breakthrough-for-retail-ehealth-remote-monitoring/comment-page-1/#comment-12282 Vince Kuraitis Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:36:41 +0000 http://e-CareManagement.com/?p=1241#comment-12282 David, your pushback and questions are valid. We'll see. I think value of Meeker's info is to illustrate differing CULTURAL expectations about paying for wireless. Degree of opportunity difficult to predict in health care. Vince David, your pushback and questions are valid. We’ll see.

I think value of Meeker’s info is to illustrate differing CULTURAL expectations about paying for wireless. Degree of opportunity difficult to predict in health care.

Vince

]]> By: David Doherty http://e-CareManagement.com/will-mobilewireless-apps-be-the-breakthrough-for-retail-ehealth-remote-monitoring/comment-page-1/#comment-12280 David Doherty Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:21:46 +0000 http://e-CareManagement.com/?p=1241#comment-12280 Hi Vince, An excellent presentation that confirms that the mobile web has at last arrived in America! Yipee! Whilst being careful not to underestimate the advantage of the mobile internet having an inbuilt means of payment, I still wouldn't get too excited by these numbers as an indication of what will happen next. First of all (and very importantly) there is some debate as to whether it is technically correct to include "SMS" within "Mobile Internet Revenues". This profitable segment is undergoing rapid change as operators strive to keep customers through inclusive text bundles. Likewise increased use of the mobile internet (by 3G Smartphones and 3G Laptop Dongles) will have similar effects on profits due to unlimited data plans. Roaming profits are also included in the slides you have included and these are also set to dramatically drop as operators try harder to attract and keep hold of high value customers. The turf wars that are being waged between the emerging mobile payment companies (eg Apple Appstore, PayPal, Amazon and Google Checkout) may also give customers cheaper and more convenient alternative means of making a payment. If you asked me I'd estimate how dramatic these revenue falls will be I'd say they'll be as rapid as the fall Mary Meeker observed in operator portal share of mobile web during 2007 (slide 46). Hi Vince,

An excellent presentation that confirms that the mobile web has at last arrived in America! Yipee!

Whilst being careful not to underestimate the advantage of the mobile internet having an inbuilt means of payment, I still wouldn’t get too excited by these numbers as an indication of what will happen next.

First of all (and very importantly) there is some debate as to whether it is technically correct to include “SMS” within “Mobile Internet Revenues”. This profitable segment is undergoing rapid change as operators strive to keep customers through inclusive text bundles.

Likewise increased use of the mobile internet (by 3G Smartphones and 3G Laptop Dongles) will have similar effects on profits due to unlimited data plans.

Roaming profits are also included in the slides you have included and these are also set to dramatically drop as operators try harder to attract and keep hold of high value customers.

The turf wars that are being waged between the emerging mobile payment companies (eg Apple Appstore, PayPal, Amazon and Google Checkout) may also give customers cheaper and more convenient alternative means of making a payment.

If you asked me I’d estimate how dramatic these revenue falls will be I’d say they’ll be as rapid as the fall Mary Meeker observed in operator portal share of mobile web during 2007 (slide 46).

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