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Andrea, Great article as always. Thanks for sharing. Having been in mobile development longer than I care to remember, there are many factors in dealing with mobile technology that were not discussed here. Deciding how your app is going to be different from a user experience perspective is very important. That is what the company should focus on, the experience level. Leave the heavy lifting to a plethora of framework vendors, both open source or commercial, to do the heavy lifting. These are NOT real estate mobile vendors. They are companies like rhomobile, who build open source device frameworks allowing you to focus on the experience. You build once and you run on all mobile platforms. Frameworks like this make it much easier than trying to roll your own on each device. You focus on the top level, let the framework vendor focus on the server (if disconnected), the device, and the integration level. As much as firms like to tout "invented here", that is not a winning long term strategy. Especially with the current fragmented Android OS space. Barrett Powell, Broker/Tech Consultant

1 down, 9 to go...maybe. http://www.inman.com/news/2012/01/17/data-dictionary-will-bring-common-vocabulary-sale-real-estate#comment-31566 Barrett Powell, Broker/Tech Consultant

Russ, I'm with you on that one. So does this count as one of my Top 10 Predictions? I need to get a job on ESPN! Barrett Powell, Broker/Tech Consultant