{"id":1101,"date":"2013-01-27T17:11:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T00:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2022-09-26T11:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T18:21:58","slug":"bits-and-pieces-week-ending-2013-01-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/bits-and-pieces-week-ending-2013-01-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits and pieces week ending 2013-01-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1103\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Newspapers1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1103\" alt=\"By Binuri Ranasinghe\" src=\"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Newspapers1-300x194.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Newspapers1-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Newspapers1.png 882w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/binuri\/5102566714\/\">By Binuri Ranasinghe<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A couple of pieces of news that really made me go &#8220;hmmm&#8221; this week are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft will <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/01\/18\/windows-8-pro-upgrade-pricing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stop the Windows 8 reduce price offer<\/a> and will go from $40 dollars to $199 starting Feb 1. &#8211; I knew this was coming, but I was secretly wishing it would not. At the same time, why do they need increase it by 300%? I think in today&#8217;s environment this will end up, rightfully so, make enterprises and individuals think twice about the choices of Operating Systems..<\/li>\n<li>Apple is no longer the world\u2019s <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/01\/25\/apple-is-no-longer-the-worlds-most-valuable-company\/#SguifzyvCBfCiACV.99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">most valuable company<\/a>. Even though Apple delivered record revenue and more profit than any company has ever reported in a single year that does not seem to be enough for the Market.. I understand that the Market is really looking at futures, and that Apple&#8217;s innovation is being question, but is it really in that bad of a shape?<\/li>\n<li>Twitter <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/abrambrown\/2013\/01\/03\/reading-twitters-tea-leaves-ipo-prep-may-start-this-year-offering-in-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$9 billion dollar valuation<\/a>. I know Twitter is undeniable as a social need and public service. Without a doubt brilliant! in its simplicity and approach. However, where is the monetization roadmap and upside? Will &#8220;the people&#8221;continue to use it if it has too many ads or sponsored tweets?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is it for this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"blogsy_footer\" style=\"text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"Posted with Blogsy\" src=\"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/blogsy_footer_icon.png\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of pieces of news that really made me go &#8220;hmmm&#8221; this week are: Microsoft will stop the Windows 8 reduce price offer and will go from $40 dollars to $199 starting Feb 1. &#8211; I knew this was coming, but I was secretly wishing it would not. At the same time, why do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,468],"tags":[467,615],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journey","category-thoughts-ramblings","tag-musings","tag-personal-thoughts"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":17,"label":"Journey"},{"value":468,"label":"Thoughts and Ramblings"}],"post_tag":[{"value":467,"label":"Musings"},{"value":615,"label":"Personal Thoughts"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jorgep-BlogPostGeneric.jpg",1024,512,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jorge Pereira","author_link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/author\/jorge\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":17,"name":"Journey","slug":"journey","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":317,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":17,"category_count":317,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Journey","category_nicename":"journey","category_parent":0},{"term_id":468,"name":"Thoughts and Ramblings","slug":"thoughts-ramblings","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":478,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":229,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":468,"category_count":229,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Thoughts and Ramblings","category_nicename":"thoughts-ramblings","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":467,"name":"Musings","slug":"musings","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":477,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":114,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":615,"name":"Personal Thoughts","slug":"personal-thoughts","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":625,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":60,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}