Share your Mobile Real Estate App with your Friends this Year!
Want to get your mobile real estate app out there for 2012? Use the Share This App feature to hand deliver either your Branded App or your White Label app from Smarter Agent. This can really add to your success all year long, but especially now. There’s a good chance that you know someone who just got a new mobile phone or tablet and you can feel confident that your app will work on just about any device they have.
Below you can see the estimated market share for each mobile platform OS on the market and their respective potential growth over the next 4 years. Mobile is not only the present, it will be even more present in the future, so you don’t have to worry that your mobile real estate application will have nowhere to live in the coming years. It’s a gift that keeps on giving, and evolving with the changes in each OS and device that crops up.
| Worldwide smartphone operating system (OS) market share in 2009-2015, according to Gartner | Smartphone OS market share and compound annual growth rate 2011-2015, according to IDC | |||||||
| OS (listed alphabetically) |
2009 market share |
2010 market share |
2011 market share |
2015 market Share |
2011 market share |
2015 market Share |
2011-2015 CAGR |
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| Android | 3.9% | 22.7% | 38.5% | 48.8% | 39.5% | 45.4% | 23.8% | |
| BlackBerry | 19.9% | 16.0% | 13.4% | 11.1% | 14.9% | 13.7% | 17.1% | |
| iOS | 14.4% | 15.7% | 19.4% | 17.2% | 15.7% | 15.3% | 18.8% | |
| Symbian | 46.9% | 37.6% | 19.2% | 0.1% | 20.9% | 0.2% | -65.0% | |
| Windows Phone/Mobile | 8.7% | 4.2% | 5.6% | 19.5% | 5.5% | 20.9% | 67.1% | |
| Others | 6.1% | 3.8% | 3.9% | 3.3% | 3.5% | 4.6% | 28.0% | |
| Total smartphones sold | 172 million | 297 million | 468 million | 631 million | 450 million | N/A | 19.6% | |
| Source: Gartner (April 2011) | Source: IDC (March 2011) | via: mobiThinking | ||||||
Think about it. This will be great practice for you for when you are showing properties or sitting in an open house, you’ll have more confidence in both knowing how to use your own branded mobile real estate app and in showing others how to use it as well.
~ Larry Davis, Sales Executive