{"id":10548,"date":"2009-12-11T13:27:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T20:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2009-12-11T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T20:27:48","slug":"the-twelve-days-of-iphone-apps-turning-your-phone-into-a-real-estate-agents-pocket-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10548\/the-twelve-days-of-iphone-apps-turning-your-phone-into-a-real-estate-agents-pocket-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"The twelve days of iPhone apps: Turning your phone into a real estate agent’s pocket powerhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

All right: So: Let’s start in the middle.<\/p>\n

First, we have four cell phones among the two of us. We have the two spares in case we need to put a phone in the pocket of a subcontractor. We keep a close eye on the folks who work with us, but we don’t ever want for our people to be without a lifeline.<\/p>\n

Even so, the phones we actually use are the iPhones. It seems plausible to me that I may add a Droid and a Pre in 2010, both of them to keep any eye on what else can be done. But the iPhone app universe is exploding like the universe of time, space, mass and energy, and it seems reasonable to me that that the iPhone will be driving cell phone\/pocket computer\/etc. innovation for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

Just in recent days, the appworld has added live video streaming and real-time credit card processing, and my thinking is that there are a lot of as yet undisclosed tricks in the iPhone developers’ APIs. In other words, I suspect that Apple has been holding back on the iPhone’s feature set to kill competitive features as they’re aborning, nipping every supposed incipient iPhone-killer in the bud.<\/p>\n

I realized last night that I want for my laptop (a MacBook Pro) and my desktop computer (an iMac) to be the same one computer. Does that make sense? I want for those two computers to be cloned and continuously-syncing instances of the same one database of files. And I want for my iPhone to be a moon of that doubled planetary system.<\/p>\n

This is singularity thinking: One way that human beings could leap to the next level of our evolution is by moving into computing hardware. The philosophy of all this is brain-breaking: Hardware geeks insist that the human mind must be a finite-state machine, while everyone with an introspective consciousness acts reflexively upon a seemingly undoubted belief in free will.<\/p>\n

That’s a problem we’ll have to deal with on the way to the singularity. Meanwhile, a software instance of “you” could be cloned to live on as many hardware devices Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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