{"id":333,"date":"2007-09-07T03:34:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T03:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/07\/guts-and-glory\/"},"modified":"2007-09-07T03:34:12","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T03:34:12","slug":"guts-and-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2007\/09\/guts-and-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Guts and Glory!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a Technology company governed by the likes of Moore&#8217;s Law, would you think twice about revising the price of your newest product down to <em>half<\/em>, just two months after its launch?!&nbsp; If your brand\/product already enjoyed &#8220;cult status&#8221; (worldwide!), would you consider rewarding your existing customers with a substantial giveaway, just to <em>appreciate<\/em> their early support?!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think so.&nbsp; But, Steve has always <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/openiphoneletter\/\">defied the norm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An Open Letter to all iPhone customers:<\/p>\n<p>I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale. After reading every one of these emails, I have some observations and conclusions&#8230;&nbsp; <em>(Read the <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/openiphoneletter\/\"><em>entire letter<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I admire Apple so much.&nbsp; They&#8217;ve got what it takes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a Technology company governed by the likes of Moore&#8217;s Law, would you think twice about revising the price of your newest product down to half, just two months after its launch?!  If your brand\/product already enjoyed &#8220;cult status&#8221; (worldwide!), would you consider rewarding your existing customers with a substantial giveaway, just to appreciate their early support?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}