Saturday, 6th of February 2010 at 09:42:42 AMIt’s no secret that I use Apple for my technology. In fact, I get calls from agents that are making the switch from PC to Mac and it’s always fun to talk to them about it. Recently the questions have been around iPad. From a previous post, I predicted that the iPad would be a game changer for the Real Estate industry (and several others).
To put it simply, I was disappointed while watching the iPad annoucement. Since then, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to it and the continued rumors flying around it. But before I get into my thoughts on the topic, I want to reflect on my iPhone story.
Me and my iPhone
I was an early adopter of the iPhone, I still have the 1G iPhone at home, as a backup to my current 2G and it is destined to become my daughters learning toy with some great apps that I found. I remember how happy I was with the first iPhone and what I was able to do with it. Shortly after getting it, my wife and I were in Hawaii and using the iPhone to locate restaurants and get directions way back when.
Then came the iPhone 3G, I was of the mind set to do every other iPhone. Yah, right. I was at the grand opening of the Arrowhead Apple story shortly after the release of the 3G and they had a stock when everyone else did not, so I gave in a bought the new one. I’ve been happy with it and got one for my wife. It was a great improvement over the 1G and has proven to be valuable.
We’ve skipped the 3GS for the time being and starting to look forward to the 4G.
So what’s my point?
It was exciting and fun to be one of the early adopters of the iPhone, but in the end, it wasn’t worth it. The second version (3G) was the best choice, at that point the app store was maturing and apps were becoming very useful. My three most used apps are the Mail, DayLite Touch and Billings Touch. Only the Mail existed on my first iPhone. I now use my iPhone so much that I charge it 3 times a day when sitting at a desk.
While the iPad is cool, I think I will try to be disciplined to hold off until the second generation. This will give the developers time to build some really cool apps and for Apple to add come really cool features (camera, multi-tasking).
What’s my Wish List?
These are some of the things I would like to see that would really make me excited about the iPad:
- Market Circledevelops a Daylite app that is more like the Desktop and less like the touch.
- That we can get an PDF reader that works with forms (Smile on my Mac, I’m thinking you can do this one).
- FBS works to develop an iPad centric CSS for the FlexMLS system (pretty please, I’ll even beta).
- That a Wireless provider gets around to simplifying the contracts. I’d love to have one contract that allows 3 or more devices to access data at one price.
- Signatures, come on, this one we really need Apple….
- For the reader, I like to annotate books, highlight, take notes, etc, and I want to be able to share that with my desktop computer.
- ZipForms to step up their on-line system to work on the iPad (major challenge to this one since I don’t know the state of JAVA on the iPad).
Is this really all that bad?? Let me know what you think, post a comment.
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