{"id":175,"date":"2009-11-25T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2009-11-25T09:41:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:41:25","slug":"ebay-opens-auction-app-for-blackberry-the-download-blog-download-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/ebay-opens-auction-app-for-blackberry-the-download-blog-download-com\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay opens auction app for BlackBerry | The Download Blog &#8211; Download.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a big red flag for me that this had to be co-developed by eBay and RIM.\u00c2\u00a0 Why is the huge userbase not enough to incentivize app development?\u00c2\u00a0 Why does RIM need to co-develop apps for their platform?\u00c2\u00a0 Piecing together previous things I read, I suspect it has to do with the Blackberry platform not having been designed for third party app development.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The official eBay for BlackBerry application, which was co-developed by eBay and RIM, includes features to search for, track, and buy an item from the smartphone<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/8301-2007_4-10404316-12.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\">eBay opens auction app for BlackBerry | The Download Blog &#8211; Download.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a big red flag for me that this had to be co-developed by eBay and RIM.\u00c2\u00a0 Why is the huge userbase not enough to incentivize app development?\u00c2\u00a0 Why does RIM need to co-develop apps for their platform?\u00c2\u00a0 Piecing together previous things I read, I suspect it has to do with the Blackberry platform not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/ebay-opens-auction-app-for-blackberry-the-download-blog-download-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">eBay opens auction app for BlackBerry | The Download Blog &#8211; Download.com<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,46,30,45],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apps","tag-blackberry","tag-mobile","tag-rimm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}