{"id":201,"date":"2009-06-05T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/?p=201"},"modified":"2009-06-23T13:48:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T17:48:35","slug":"dumbest-quote-ever-about-a-business-apple-in-this-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2009\/06\/05\/dumbest-quote-ever-about-a-business-apple-in-this-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbest Quote EVER About a Business (Apple, in this case)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This in a New York Times article today called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/05\/technology\/companies\/05apple.html\">Apple Races to Keep Ahead of Rivals<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf they start making products people don\u2019t want, and start losing users, then Apple\u2019s strategy will run into problems,\u201d said Benjamin Reitzes, an analyst at\u00a0 Barclays  Capital. \u201cIf they continue to have an aura where their products are seen as defining the marketplace, they are going to be fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Has there ever been a business whose strategy was to &#8220;start making products people don\u2019t want, and start losing users&#8221; ?<\/p>\n<p>Why in the world did they quote that clown?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This in a New York Times article today called Apple Races to Keep Ahead of Rivals: \u201cIf they start making products people don\u2019t want, and start losing users, then Apple\u2019s strategy will run into problems,\u201d said Benjamin Reitzes, an analyst at\u00a0 Barclays Capital. \u201cIf they continue to have an aura where their products are seen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2009\/06\/05\/dumbest-quote-ever-about-a-business-apple-in-this-case\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dumbest Quote EVER About a Business (Apple, in this case)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1,12,11,6],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-general","category-mac-hardware","category-mac-software","category-rants","tag-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}