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Ask HN: Why Does Craigslist Have No Official Mobile Apps?

1 pointsby amacabout 11 years ago
It&#x27;s reasonably beyond doubt that mobile is where most people will access information online - including classifieds. I understand Craigslist was founded on the desktop web however my question is; why do they still not have a native app for mobile? Is this due to resource, or perhaps a business or philosophical choice?<p>Ebay appear to have revived their marketplace businesses with Ebay.com, Gumtree etc on mobile. Personally in regards to ecommerce, I much prefer mobile to the desktop experience.

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serfabout 11 years ago
I don&#x27;t know why, and the third party apps (at least the Android ones) have a track record of shady doings (revoking upgrades, creating new &quot;premium&quot; editions atop existing ones to force repayment, etc)<p>I always figured it was due to the site being simple enough to make work well on mobile.
nodataabout 11 years ago
Does their website work well in a mobile browser?
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thelogosabout 11 years ago
Maybe for the same reason HN does not have an API and developers are forced to scrape the site.