{"id":54,"date":"2008-07-02T10:27:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T15:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/apple-negotiates-not-dictates\/"},"modified":"2008-07-02T10:29:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T15:29:17","slug":"apple-negotiates-not-dictates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/apple-negotiates-not-dictates\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple negotiates, not dictates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/07\/02\/apple-confirms-no-online-iphone-3g-sales-in-store-activation-only\/\" title=\"iPhone 3G in-store activation only\">confirmation that the iPhone will only be activated in AT&amp;T stores<\/a> is a sign that a definite concession that was  made to get the price cut made. I enjoyed activating my phone from the comfort of my home &#8212; it was nice. So, it does reduce the user experience which they&#8217;re always going on about.<\/p>\n<p>But, that&#8217;s a one-time deal, and it&#8217;s not an outrageous expectation of the customers. No one buys a phone because they like the activation process, and it&#8217;s not a bolt out of the blue to activate in-store.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, for the long-term, it gets more of the iPhones out to market, while still ensuring a profit in the short-term, and thus continuing to establish Apple as a leading player. Portable computing is obviously where we&#8217;re headed, and Apple wants to use its current goodwill to put them in front of the upcoming wave. Overall, it&#8217;s a good move for them.<\/p>\n<p>I think the lesson to take away from this is that while short-term luxuries are nice, don&#8217;t let that which is not needed prevent you from making a good long-term move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The confirmation that the iPhone will only be activated in AT&amp;T stores is a sign that a definite concession that was made to get the price cut made. I enjoyed activating my phone from the comfort of my home &#8212; it was nice. So, it does reduce the user experience which they&#8217;re always going on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/apple-negotiates-not-dictates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple negotiates, not dictates&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[143,141,21,142,144],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}