{"id":10933,"date":"2013-09-12T18:31:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T23:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10933"},"modified":"2013-09-13T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T19:58:05","slug":"apple-underwhelms-in-china-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10933","title":{"rendered":"Apple Underwhelms in China, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>At 4,488 Yuan Renminbi (US$734) for the 16GB version, the iPhone might be within reach of well-heeled consumers in Beijing and Shanghai but is unlikely to win over punters in so-called third-tier cities and beyond, who have never owned a smartphone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightreading.com\/document.asp?doc_id=705633&amp;\">Apple Underwhelms in China, Too | Light Reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c114.net\/news\/51\/a793025.html\" target=\"new\">another online poll<\/a> (again in Chinese, naturally), more than 80 percent said the price was too high.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chic marketing may be wearing off the Apple brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 4,488 Yuan Renminbi (US$734) for the 16GB version, the iPhone might be within reach of well-heeled consumers in Beijing and Shanghai but is unlikely to win over punters in so-called third-tier cities and beyond, who have never owned a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10933\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[288,277,525,436],"class_list":["post-10933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-apple","tag-china","tag-market-trends","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10955,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions\/10955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}