{"id":2585,"date":"2014-07-22T13:55:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2014-08-04T10:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T09:48:34","slug":"economics-of-computing-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2585","title":{"rendered":"Economics of computing devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been observing that as smartphones are becoming smarter, they are also becoming more expensive, there have been a segment that have also entered the market once fill by feature, or dumb phones, but they are almost designed to entice you upgrade to the more expensive and glamorious models. <\/p>\n<p>At the same time, laptops, particularly ChromeBooks are now dropping below the price of the average smart phone. Add in the increasing use of pads, especially Android pads and you have to imagine that MicroSoft should be getting very worried. <\/p>\n<p>Desktop computers, PC&#8217;s, are almost non-exsistent these days, traditional laptops are in decline and the base for an exclusive Microsoft Windows empire is crumbling before our eyes. <\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t we glad that Bill Gates is still the richest (published) man in the world.<\/p>\n<p>And to put another nail in the bed Microsoft sleeps in, no one wants Windows 8.0 or 8.1! Why not just rename Windows 7 to Windows 9 and go on from there? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/08\/04\/windows_8_market_share_stalls_xp_at_record_low\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 8 market share stalls, XP at record low<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been observing that as smartphones are becoming smarter, they are also becoming more expensive, there have been a segment that have also entered the market once fill by feature, or dumb phones, but they are almost designed to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2585\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Economics of computing devices<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,17,30,2,127,336,75,16,52,9],"tags":[696,400,623,653,622,624,647],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-apple","category-economy","category-general-it-issues","category-google","category-ipad","category-iphone","category-microsoft","category-monopolies","category-windows","tag-android","tag-ios","tag-laptops","tag-microsoft","tag-pc","tag-smartphones","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}