{"id":11755,"date":"2015-07-20T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11755"},"modified":"2015-07-20T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:03:27","slug":"apple-vs-the-pc-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/20\/apple-vs-the-pc-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple vs. the PC Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2015\/07\/17\/apple-vs-pc-industry\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2015\/07\/17\/apple-vs-pc-industry\">\n<p>To put Apple&rsquo;s current industry position in perspective, the company probably sold somewhere between 60-65 million iOS devices last quarter. (I&rsquo;m guessing ~50 million iPhones, ~10-12 million iPads, and a handful of million iPod Touches.) The average selling price of a PC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/203759\/average-selling-price-of-desktop-pcs-worldwide\/\">has fallen to under $400<\/a>. The average selling price of an iPhone <a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/15\/07\/16\/ubs-forecasts-iphone-asp-at-660-pushing-apples-june-margins-to-409\">has been estimated to be as high as $660<\/a>. So while iOS devices, taken as a whole, might still fall a few million units short of the PC industry, they&rsquo;re clearly generating more in revenue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: To put Apple&rsquo;s current industry position in perspective, the company probably sold somewhere between 60-65 million iOS devices last quarter. (I&rsquo;m guessing ~50 million iPhones, ~10-12 million iPads, and a handful of million iPod Touches.) The average selling price of a PC has fallen to under $400. The average selling price of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,101,31,145,30],"class_list":["post-11755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-mac"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11756,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11755\/revisions\/11756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}