{"id":882,"date":"2012-11-18T21:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=882"},"modified":"2012-11-18T21:45:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T21:45:18","slug":"throw-away-your-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/11\/throw-away-your-blackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Throw Away Your Blackberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I could be a developer for blackberry. I know how to make blackberry apps, and was thinking of doing some.<br \/>\nThen I discovered they charge you $200 to register as a developer.<br \/>\nStuff them!<br \/>\nI will write for android instead.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, if you have a blackberry, throw it away. With fees like that, no one will write apps for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could be a developer for blackberry. I know how to make blackberry apps, and was thinking of doing some. Then I discovered they charge you $200 to register as a developer. Stuff them! I will write for android instead. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/11\/throw-away-your-blackberry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-ee","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":893,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/11\/i-became-an-apple-developer\/","url_meta":{"origin":882,"position":0},"title":"I Became an Apple Developer","author":"taxicle","date":"November 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I will develop A Star Maths and Physics stuff for the iphone and ipad. 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