{"id":166342,"date":"2016-05-26T12:20:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T10:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=166342"},"modified":"2016-05-26T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T10:22:34","slug":"paypal-killing-windows-phone-blackberry-amazon-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/166342-paypal-killing-windows-phone-blackberry-amazon-apps.html","title":{"rendered":"PayPal killing Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Amazon apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/stories\/us\/its-time-to-upgrade-to-version-60-of-the-paypal-app\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PayPal will discontinue<\/strong><\/a> support for\u00a0Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and the\u00a0Amazon Fire apps from 30 June.<\/p>\n<p>PayPal said these\u00a0users can still access PayPal through\u00a0the mobile web.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a difficult decision to no longer support the PayPal app on these mobile platforms, but we believe it\u2019s the right thing to ensure we are investing our resources in creating the very best experiences for our customers,&#8221; said PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting on 3 June through 30 June, customers using older versions of the PayPal mobile app on Android and iOS will be required to upgrade to version 6.0.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More software news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/166232-google-wants-smartphone-makers-to-update-android-faster.html\">Google wants smartphone makers to update Android faster<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/166180-software-worth-over-r4-billion-pirated-in-south-africa.html\">Software worth over R4 billion pirated in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal will discontinue support for Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and the Amazon Fire apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":109858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106,16],"tags":[36,97,169,1333],"class_list":["post-166342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-software","tag-active","tag-blackberry","tag-paypal","tag-windows-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166358,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166342\/revisions\/166358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}