Reminder: We Place Extra No Restrictions on Mobile Applications!

Posted by Joe Zwack

December 11, 2009

I’m not sure how many of you do or don’t know about this, but some other product based APIs out there make you ask permission to use their data on mobile applications or implementations.

I would just like to take the time to point out that we place no restrictions on using our data in mobile applications. In fact, we strongly encourage it! It’s the belief of many folks on this team and the organization as a whole that being able to display this data on mobile devices is the direction to go.

In fact according to the Developer Portal it’s this simple when using the API:

Don’t claim to be Best Buy
Acknowledge that the data came from us when you use it
If you offer commerce, we need to be one of the options

We already have a few mobile applications using our data with no problem (ShopSavvy, etc). If you come up with an application let me know and we might actually feature it in our Sample Gallery (which in our new portal will really cool by the way).

If you have any questions about any restrictions or anything else in general let me know!

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