{"id":1395,"date":"2012-05-01T22:08:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T05:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2012-05-01T22:08:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T05:08:24","slug":"apple-will-sell-a-few-to-its-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/apple-will-sell-a-few-to-its-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Apple Will Sell a Few to Its Fans\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"read\" –>\u2018Apple Will Sell a Few to Its Fans\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n
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This fine bit of analysis by Matthew Lynn for Bloomberg from January 2007 is worth a revisit<\/a>, in light of Nokia\u2019s and Motorola\u2019s recent quarterly results:<\/p>\n

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The big competitors in the mobile-phone industry such as Nokia Oyj and Motorola Inc. won\u2019t be whispering nervously into their clamshells over a new threat to their business.<\/p>\n

The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks. In terms of its impact on the industry, the iPhone is less relevant.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Motorola just posted an $86 million loss<\/a>. Nokia lost $1.2 billion<\/a> (with a \u201cb\u201d).<\/p>\n

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hahahahahahahahaha  fool! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daring Fireball by John Gruber<\/span><\/td>\nMay 1, 2012 9:55 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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 –>\u2018Apple Will Sell a Few to Its Fans\u2019 This fine bit of analysis by Matthew Lynn for Bloomberg from January 2007 is worth a revisit, in light of Nokia\u2019s and Motorola\u2019s recent quarterly results: The big competitors in the mobile-phone industry such as Nokia Oyj and Motorola Inc. won\u2019t be whispering nervously into their clamshells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maccconsulting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p834Wu-mv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}