Have You Seen Your Website on iPad?

Have you seen your website on an iPad?

This is important because the site you spent a ton of money on may suck really badly on an iPad.

I just got an iPad2. I actually waited for 6 months for the much anticipated updated version.

I am absolutely thrilled with it – BUT and there is a big BUT – I hadn’t realized how much of an impact the lack of flash support would affect my browsing. This is a well documented problem that may or may not be fixed by Apple in the future.

This came to be a problem when I was researching vacation options. I was browsing, looking at hotel, airline and car hire options and here is the BUT – I had to give up on some sites because flash-based photo galleries and videos just don’t show up.

If you can’t see images of a possibly suitable hotel, are you going to book a room on that site? Hmmm – don’t think so…

If photo galleries or videos don’t display on your real estate site, are future clients going to stick around? Again, I don’t think so.

This is no small deal as over 15 million iPads were sold last year and over 1,000,000 were sold the first week of the iPad2 launch.

I lot of people I know have one and if you ask around
you should find the same to be true.

In a future article I will look at how the iPad, the Zoom, the PlayBook and all its other clones will affect browsing habits and the future of real estate sites.

So go look at your site, and if it breaks, get it fixed pronto!

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