eBay shows off auction app for iPhone Video
eBay shows off auction app for iPhone Video Transcript
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>> And we're here to show you options on the iPhone. So the iPhone has quickly become the number one mobile device for accessing eBay. And while the [inaudible] experience is great, we want to bring the best possible mobile experience to our customers. So five weeks ago we decided to create this application. And the ease of developing with the iPhone SDK allows us to rapidly integrate with eBay's web services. So you can see here we're on the home screen. You've got easy access to search, we show the user's personal avatar, and a summary of their activity. Whether you're a buyer or a seller, you can easily see if you're winning or losing, and how much you've been selling. So let's search for the new Wii Fit, one of the hottest selling items on eBay, and add it to our watch list. These are all live listings you're gonna see running on eBay's production servers. You just touch on an item to bring up the details. You can see the picture, all the bid amounts, and everything like that. If the buyer wants to see more information, we've also integrated Web Kit into the application so they can view the seller's HTML description. Going back, it's just one easy touch to add this to our watch list. And if we go back to the home screen, let it refresh, we now see we're watching one additional item. But we've also been outbid on something. Just touch there and it'll pop us over to My eBay, where we can get more details. Here the red and green bid amounts let us see what we're winning or losing. Let's try to win that item that we're currently losing by placing a higher bid. Bidding's really easy. Just enter in your bid amount, confirm it, and the bid is instantly placed on our system. The confirmation screen slides in, and hey it looks like we're back in the lead. Finally, I'd like to take a look at one last item on my watch list. It's a twelve and a half million dollar home in Golf Course, New Mexico. [ laughter ] Let's take a look at the photos to see if it's really worth it. So here the filmstrip viewer allows us to see all of the photos. We can scroll through them, we can zoom in and out using the standard touch controls to see more details. Looks pretty nice, but I don't think I'm gonna place a bid on it. That's it for our demo. It's been a great experience developing for the iPhone. The eBay app will be available for free when the app store launches. Thank you, and happy bidding. [ applause ]
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