{"id":1629,"date":"2007-07-04T07:43:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T14:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2007-07-04T07:43:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T14:43:39","slug":"the-iphone-is-excellent-but-its-missing-features-give-laptop-computers-a-reprieve-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1629\/the-iphone-is-excellent-but-its-missing-features-give-laptop-computers-a-reprieve-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone is excellent, but its missing features give laptop computers a reprieve &#8212; for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1628\" alt=\"dscf5419.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/dscf5419.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an enlarged image from BloodhoundBlog on the iPhone. Cathy and I spent about an hour yesterday at the Apple Store at the Fashion Show Mall toying with demo units. We&#8217;re rarely early-adopters, so we have no exigent plans to switch, but the phone is a lot of fun to play with.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone&#8217;s strengths are well-documented. We had no trouble figuring things out, and doing things &#8212; anything &#8212; is a pure delight. But: The phone&#8217;s short-comings render it less than ideal as a laptop killer for Realtors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As Will Farnsworth reported here, neither Zillow.com&#8217;s nor Trulia.com&#8217;s mapping seems to work<\/li>\n<li>Our MLS system did not fail in the Safari browser, but I could not get search pages to fully load, leaving me in doubt about listings pages; this may have been the fault of the MLS system, since I&#8217;ve had the same failures in MSIE 6\/7<\/li>\n<li>The YouTube integration is H264 video only (that is, iPod\/Apple TV video), not YouTube&#8217;s vast library of Flash-based video; if you&#8217;re doing iTunes video already, you don&#8217;t need to duplicate your content in YouTube<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Connectivity over EDGE was not horrible, although the in-store Wi-Fi was much better. Tabbed browsing was wicked easy.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone needs Flash and Javascript &#8212; the essence of AJAX for real estate &#8212; but those can easily be added with a software upgrade. I need to satisfy myself that it can handle our MLS system. Beyond that, it was fast, intuitive and fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s an enlarged image from BloodhoundBlog on the iPhone. Cathy and I spent about an hour yesterday at the Apple Store at the Fashion Show Mall toying with demo units. We&#8217;re rarely early-adopters, so we have no exigent plans to switch, but the phone is a lot of fun to play with. The iPhone&#8217;s strengths [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1525,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1525\/zillowcom-and-marketlinxtempo-work-with-safari-3-suggesting-that-they-will-also-work-on-the-iphone\/","url_meta":{"origin":1629,"position":0},"title":"Zillow.com and MarketLinx\/Tempo work with Safari 3, suggesting that they will also work on the iPhone","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"At today's World Wide Developer Conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the availability of a public beta version of Safari 3 for both the Macintosh and Windows. 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