Just pee into your phoneFollow

I think you vastly overestimate yourself.

Sigh... I've explained this to you at least a half dozen times now.

Start with one fact: That the disposable part (which interacts with the fluid) is relatively inexpensive and has just enough components on it to allow it to be read by some other more expensive device to generate usable results to the end user.


Next fact: What you plug it into doesn't really matter. If my company manufactures and sells the disposable part, I'm going to make it as simple and useful as possible, right? So a strip of reactive paper with a chip connected to it and a standard mini-usb plug at the end. That way anyone can make a "reader" which can look at the results.

Next fact: From the perspective of the consumer, the cost "per test" is the same regardless of what he uses to read the data off the disposable part. The cost *is* the cost of the disposable part. This is the same whether it's connected to a computer, or a cell phone, or an ipad, or some special purpose built device.

Final fact: Also from the perspective of the consumer, it makes vastly more sense for me to spend a few bucks on a software download for a device I already own in order to use the disposable testing part than to spend $50 or $100 or more on a stand alone device. This is simple marketing, right? The only people who would pay to buy a separate device are people who do not own a single computing device capable of connecting to the disposable part or running the software.



Where is the confusion you're having? I could go on and talk about how software licensing and overhead will push this to run on standard devices instead of stand alone as well, but if you aren't getting the very very simple "This is cheaper" argument, I'm not sure how much good that would do.

If your microwave has a standard input port on it, a display capable of showing the results of the test, and if someone thinks the "plug your STI test into a microwave" market is big enough to write the software for that platform, sure!

I know exactly what you're talking about, I'm just at a loss on why you insist that I'm referring to stuff that I'm not when we explicitly said the same exact thing multiple times now. Fortunately, your next post should help me explain it one more again to you.



No problem here.



The bold part is what I've been saying to you. It doesn't matter what you plug the stick into. This means that it didn't have to be a cell phone, it could have been another simple electronic device with a mini-usb plug. The cell phones were chosen to be compatible just because they wanted it to be compatible with the cell phones.



No problem here..



My point wasn't from the consumer and I've told you that already. This is where YOU'RE getting confused. If it is in favor the consumer, then it is more than likely a conflict in interest with the producer.

You're making this waaay too difficult. You keep making these wild assumptions that a different device must cost so much money to produce. Once again, this is very simple...

You have the disposable stick. You make it to where it is read by a USB port. You create a device with a USB port. You make it where the stick only interacts with the software on the device (or some other type of block), you know, kinda like what Apple does with their stuff? People eventually find loop holes, but usually by that time, most customers just "go with the flow" as intended.

Think about it like trying to play a Sega Saturn game on a Playstion or a Xbox game on a PS2 or a PS3 game on a Wii. They can all be the same game, but they will only interact with certain hardware.



I misunderstood your earlier post, but trust me on this... you're the one confused on this. We're saying the same thing but yet you keep attaching what I'm saying to something that I'm not saying.

You've already said it already, so I'm not sure why you're still arguing with me. There is nothing special about cell phones and this is/can operate on other everyday devices.. THIS MEANS THAT IT'S ONLY ON CELL PHONES BECAUSE THEY WANTED IT TO BE, DUE TO THE HYPE OF APPLICATIONS If smart phones and applications weren't "in", they would probably be "pc only". If you agree with those statements, then please dump out all other misinterpretations that you've gathered, because we agree on that part.

So afterward, we can use them as glo-sticks. That's awesome Nads. The kids will love it.