Comments on: Real Estate’s White Rabbit

By: videomajja

videomajja — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:55:40 +0000

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By: Amit Kulkarni

Amit Kulkarni — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:47:31 +0000

Jesse's right. In Q1 2009, the blackberry 8300, or "Curve" model, actually outsold the iPhone in units, with the Storm 3rd in units behind the iPhone. So Blackberry has 2 of the top 3 selling Mobile devices.

Blackberry recently unveiled its own app store, and while it is playing "catch-up" to the iPhone app store, it is a step in the right direction.

My brokerage, Avery-Hess, Realtors, serves the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and Blackberry products are far more prevalent (at least through my observation) in this area than iPhones. Even the youngsters (under 35) seem to have adopted blackberry devices as they are the norm for businesses in this area (see consulting, defense contracting, and government agencies).

Wouldn't it be smart for brokerages to develop an app for both devices if they decide to go that route?

By: Marisa PDX

Marisa PDX — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:30:05 +0000

I have never had a BB only the iPhone, the only difference I can see is that you have to carry the MLS ekey instead of having the info loaded to your phone, but I don’t care. The benefits of the iPhone far outweigh that inconvenience.

By: Kori Covrigaru

Kori Covrigaru — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:18:53 +0000

Blackberry will = AOL & Netscape. They both led the internet revolution, but Google, Microsoft, Firefox, Apple, etc cleaned up after them.

Same will go with with the iPhone and the smart phone revolution.

Anyone remember the Sharp Wizard? http://tinyurl.com/qboc9u or the Apple Newton? http://tinyurl.com/qa4g2m

By: Jesse Bilsten

Jesse Bilsten — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:14:37 +0000

And MRIS’s http://www.homesdatabase.com/ is beautiful! More please!

By: Jesse Bilsten

Jesse Bilsten — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:13:12 +0000

This is pure gold Marc:

This industry can no longer afford to have early adopters. And honestly, I wonder if that term even makes sense anymore. One is either nimble and stays current or they get left behind quickly.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:00:09 +0000

Ken,

I have reached out to the folks at HAR after visiting their site and find it works fine in Safari on both my Mac’s. I have received confirmation that this is the case but I suspect someone from HAR will delineate further either here or to you in an email.

My experience with HAR is that they are progressive and have been for a very long time. They take their members seriously and have been more instrumental in keeping their members on their toes than any other entity in Houston.

I look forward to their response.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:34:06 +0000

This industry can no longer afford to have early adopters. And honestly, I wonder if that term even makes sense anymore. One is either nimble and stays current or they get left behind quickly.

By: Portland Real Estate

Portland Real Estate — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:26:13 +0000

Industries like RE tend to have a few early adopters, but most agents still cling to the old technologies for their business and communication. Things are changing and the agents who want to be successful should be ready to embrace the change.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:14:04 +0000

HAR.com’s public facing website is browser agnostic and does work with Safari, however, the MLS system for agents that HAR licenses from its vendor, Marketlinx, is only supported in Internet Explorer. Many MLS vendor systems supporting large MLS’s have browser compatibility issues and utilize Citrix server as a work around to the issue. Systems being coded today and the last few years may support multi-browser access and the large MLS vendors understand the need for their next generation systems to support multi-browser access as Inernet Explorer continues to lose market share..