{"id":1001,"date":"2007-07-24T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T14:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/24\/the-market-has-spoken\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T14:31:02","slug":"the-market-has-spoken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/24\/the-market-has-spoken\/","title":{"rendered":"The Market Has spoken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems all of those rosey iPhone activation numbers were incorrect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/19903371\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/19903371\/', 'according to this report');\">according to this report<\/a>.  While I am not quite ready to call it an \u201ciToy\u201d like my friends are, it is clear that Apple may have overestimated how much people are willing to pay for a cute, underperforming cellular phone.  The math is simple.  No active synch = no sale for many, many cel phone users. <\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems all of those rosey iPhone activation numbers were incorrect according to this report. While I am not quite ready to call it an \u201ciToy\u201d like my friends are, it is clear that Apple may have overestimated how much people are willing to pay for a cute, underperforming cellular phone. The math is simple. No &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/07\/24\/the-market-has-spoken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Market Has spoken<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}