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Americans losing 'crackBerry' addiction?

Published: December 19, 2011 8:15 AM
By REUTERS

Quick ReadAs apps for other smartphones are being cranked out by the hundreds, many fewer are available for the RIM BlackBerry, which one exec says is not developer-friendly.

Mike Lazaridis, president and co-chief executive of Research

Photo credit: AP | Mike Lazaridis, president and co-chief executive of Research in Motion, speaks during the BlackBerry developers conference 2010 in San Francisco. (Sept. 27, 2010)

To understand what ails BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd in the U.S. market, just ask eBay chief executive John Donahoe.

The world's biggest online auction site had about a hundred engineers developing new iterations of eBay's shopping app for Apple Inc's iPhone a few months ago, and another hundred engineers working on Google Inc's Android mobile platform.

EBay even had 50 people...

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