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StatCoder · 12:14 AM

It's going to take some time. Here is the current distribution of smartphones among health care professionals according to Survey Results: Which Smartphone Will Own the Healthcare Market?

Epocrates currently supports Palm OS, iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile so this almost perfectly fits the smartphones used by physicians in this survey. The thing is, the orange "Other" bar is almost certainly Palm OS so one has to wonder how long that one is going to last and where those users are going to move to in the next year or so. There's somewhat of a chicken-and-the-egg issue, here, since how many of these physician users are going to migrate from a platform that currently is supported by Epocrates to one that isn't. Will prospective Pre users be satisfied using Classic for the time being?

Something that the Pre may have going for it is that a lot of the Windows Mobile users are probably Palm users of Treos and Centros who will be looking for a device with a physical keyboard. Probably the biggest factor that caused the switch, among physicians, to the iPhone over the past couple of years has been screen size. Physicians tend to have data-intensive applications and Palm actually shrunk the screen size on all of their smartphones over the years.

08/03/2009, 11:50 PM	#63 (permalink)
StatCoder Banned Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 97 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 9 Times in 2 Posts	It's going to take some time. Here is the current distribution of smartphones among health care professionals according to Survey Results: Which Smartphone Will Own the Healthcare Market? Epocrates currently supports Palm OS, iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile so this almost perfectly fits the smartphones used by physicians in this survey. The thing is, the orange "Other" bar is almost certainly Palm OS so one has to wonder how long that one is going to last and where those users are going to move to in the next year or so. There's somewhat of a chicken-and-the-egg issue, here, since how many of these physician users are going to migrate from a platform that currently is supported by Epocrates to one that isn't. Will prospective Pre users be satisfied using Classic for the time being? Something that the Pre may have going for it is that a lot of the Windows Mobile users are probably Palm users of Treos and Centros who will be looking for a device with a physical keyboard. Probably the biggest factor that caused the switch, among physicians, to the iPhone over the past couple of years has been screen size. Physicians tend to have data-intensive applications and Palm actually shrunk the screen size on all of their smartphones over the years. Last edited by StatCoder; 08/04/2009 at 12:14 AM.