{"id":8974,"date":"2016-09-07T19:33:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=8974"},"modified":"2016-09-07T19:33:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T23:33:18","slug":"apple-is-still-boring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/apple-is-still-boring\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple is still boring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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$159 AirBuds might save the company from coming profit death spiral, due to lack of creativity. Not because they are so amazing, but because people are going to keep losing ONE of them, and have to buy a whole new pair… I predict that this new product will single-handedly overstuff Apple’s coffers with gold over the next year.
\nYes, All Hail the #LoseMeBuds – Apple’s way of exploiting your inability to properly track small, unattached, objects near your person, turning your loss of their $7.42-to-make “bud” into $151.58 profit…that somehow ends up in Ireland owing Europe $307.99 in taxes. Go Figure.
\nAnyway, I’d sell my $AAPL stock…if I owned any, which I don’t. Just sayin’ ~jg<\/p>\n

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$159 AirBuds might save the company from coming profit death spiral, due to lack of creativity. Not because they are so amazing, but because people are going to keep losing ONE of them, and have to buy a whole new pair… I predict that this new product will single-handedly overstuff Apple’s coffers with gold over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-8974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8948,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/what-to-expect-at-apples-big-iphone-event\/","url_meta":{"origin":8974,"position":0},"title":"What to expect at Apple’s big iPhone event","date":"September 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're excited about a new iPhone7, you're too much a fanboy\/girl for me. 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