This came to me Sunday as I was looking at iPad and iPad ap developer sites. In Sacramento I went to an hour presentation by 3 iPad owners--regarding how it might or might not revolutionize real estate. Impressive, but Sunday the REAL impact of iPads capabilities emerged for me. That involves a trip into the PAST, not into the brave new cyberworld.
The iPad could easily become the perfect, lightweight, lightening quick and visually amazing---MLS BOOK. Everyone is enthralled with being able to connect to the internet with the iPad--BUT the internet is still SLOW for MLS applications. Doing searches and downloading images and data is at the mercy of connection speed, etc. It can take forever.
What if there was a distributed database application that would pump MLS images and data INTO the
iPad 's on board memory with incremental updates available online. You'd have a 1.5 pound MLS book with icons for areas and be able to turn pages like on an old fashioned MLS book--look at pictures, expand them, change the display to show details, save favorite properties, etc. Even bring in other information and all without being online--it would be VERY FAST and VERY PORTABLE. Not quite as current as online, but so much faster and user friendly.
In my opinion, agents knew more about real estate when there were MLS books than they do now when being online is everything.
Technology for the iPad MLS BOOK idea is out there--a distributed database program was available until recently with our MLS because of folks out in the boonies without broadband. Porting it into the iPad platform would access a pile of users--all the grizzled old agents will kill for MLS Books again and the newbies will learn just how cool things used to be--before the technology tsunami.
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