{"id":747837,"date":"2013-04-23T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=459247"},"modified":"2013-04-23T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:30:12","slug":"apple-reportedly-caught-flat-footed-by-the-rise-of-phablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747837","title":{"rendered":"Apple reportedly \u2018caught flat-footed\u2019 by the rise of phablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/23\/iphone-5-sales-analysis-459247\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/iphone-5-photos-review-3.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"UBS: Apple has been &#039;caught flat-footed&#039; by the rise of phablets\" title=\"iPhone 5\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/iphone-5\">iPhone 5<\/a> has certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/11\/iphone-5-lifetime-sales-est-368459\/\">been a hit<\/a> but it doesn't seem to have been the record-breaking, world-conquering hit that previous iPhone models have been. Part of this has been because <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/iphone-sales-q2-2013-canaccord-425613\/\">many customers are still picking up older iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S models<\/a> at reduced prices. And <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/techtraderdaily\/2013\/04\/22\/aapl-battleship-not-firing-back-says-ubs\/\">per <em>Barron's<\/em><\/a>, UBS analyst\u00a0Steve Milunovich thinks that part of the reason iPhone 5 sales have been \"disappointing\" is because an iPhone with a larger 4-inch display simply isn't enough to get people excited in an era when <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/11\/samsung-galaxy-mega-release-date-may-430750\/\">Samsung is releasing phablets whose displays top 6 inches<\/a>.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/23\/iphone-5-sales-analysis-459247\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/rSxl_X4y8oQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone 5 has certainly been a hit but it doesn&#8217;t seem to have been the record-breaking, world-conquering hit that previous iPhone models have been. Part of this has been because many customers are still picking up older iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S models at reduced prices. And per Barron&#8217;s, UBS analyst\u00a0Steve Milunovich thinks that [&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-747837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38xT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747837","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=747837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}