{"id":111893,"date":"2009-12-29T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T21:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2009\/12\/29\/did-you-buy-your-christmas-presents-on-your-iphone-this-year-mediamemo\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T21:14:42","slug":"did-you-buy-your-christmas-presents-on-your-iphone-this-year-mediamemo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/111893","title":{"rendered":"Did You Buy Your Christmas Presents on Your iPhone This Year? [MediaMemo]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/files\/2009\/12\/santa-phone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14559\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/72172_santa-phone-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"santa phone\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Did you buy a present via your iPhone this holiday season? <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/More-Consumers-Shop-Mobile-bw-657487514.html?x=0&amp;.v=1\">eBay (EBAY)<\/a> says the chances you did increased greatly this year, citing a 3x increase in items purchased via smartphones during the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>For the year, the company said, buyers and sellers did around $500 million worth of transactions using their phones.<\/p>\n<p>I would also assume that Amazon saw a similar trend, particularly since it rolled out well-received shopping apps for both <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20090409\/amazon-attacks-blackberry-owners-credit-cards-with-new-app\/\">Research in Motion&#8217;s BlackBerry (RIMM)<\/a> and Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000291661\">iPhone<\/a> (AAPL) this year.<\/p>\n<p>But note that for whatever reason, Amazon doesn&#8217;t mention mobile in its annual &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Amazon-Kindle-is-the-Most-bw-4259127885.html?x=0&amp;.v=1\">let us tell you how awesome are holiday sales were, without actually attaching any real numbers to these claims<\/a>&#8221; release.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>Image credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ktylerconk\/3092187449\/\">ktylerconk<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamemo.allthingsd.com\/20091229\/did-you-buy-your-christmas-presents-on-your-iphone-this-year\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you buy a present via your iPhone this holiday season? eBay (EBAY) says the chances you did increased greatly this year, citing a 3x increase in items purchased via smartphones during the holiday season. For the year, the company said, buyers and sellers did around $500 million worth of transactions using their phones. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}