How do you know when a mobile platform has entered the mainstream? When J. Lennox Scott says that making an app for it is a “no brainer.”
That’s the take on Android from the Pacific Northwest real estate scion, whose company this week released its first app for Google’s mobile platform. The John L. Scott real estate app, available in the Android Market, uses a map-based interface for listings in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Meanwhile, wireless analytics startup RootMetrics today released its Cell Phone Coverage Map for Android, with capabilities similar to its existing iPhone app.
As I told RootMetrics CEO Paul Griff recently on the GeekWire Podcast, I wish somebody would combine these two concepts — mashing up a real estate app with wireless coverage data, allowing people to take mobile reception into account when deciding where to live.
