{"id":743193,"date":"2013-03-22T16:33:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=392790"},"modified":"2013-03-22T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T20:33:10","slug":"att-stores-reportedly-giving-blackberry-the-short-shrift-at-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/743193","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T stores reportedly giving BlackBerry the short shrift at launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/22\/att-blackberry-z10-promotion-392790\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/blackberry-z10-23.jpg?w=650&#038;h=580&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C580\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"AT&amp;T BlackBerry Z10\" title=\"BlackBerry Z10\" \/><\/a><\/center>AT&amp;T (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=t\">T<\/a>) may be <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/08\/01\/att-iphone-sales-decrease-managers-orders\/\">pushing alternatives to the iPhone<\/a>, but that doesn't mean one of those alternatives will be <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry\">BlackBerry<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324557804578376483088841400.html\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reports<\/a> that two AT&amp;T stores in Manhattan on Friday featured \"neither special signs nor floor displays\" to highlight <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/22\/blackberry-flagship-launch-thorsten-heins-interview-391676\/\">BlackBerry's flagship Z10 smartphone on its first day of availability in the United States<\/a>. And this apparently wasn't just a New York problem either, as the <em>Journal<\/em> reports that an AT&amp;T store in San Francisco didn't have any sort of display for the Z10 upon opening Friday and only brought out a Z10 for public viewing after a customer asked for it. When the San Francisco store finally did put up a display for the Z10, the <em>Journal<\/em> says that it was \"at a\u00a0back corner of the store, away from a large sign advertising the iPhone 5.\"<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/r2DjV9HKWVE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T (T) may be pushing alternatives to the iPhone, but that doesn&#8217;t mean one of those alternatives will be BlackBerry (BBRY). The Wall Street Journal reports that two AT&amp;T stores in Manhattan on Friday featured &#8220;neither special signs nor floor displays&#8221; to highlight BlackBerry&#8217;s flagship Z10 smartphone on its first day of availability in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37kZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}