{"id":558,"date":"2008-07-17T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T14:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/blog\/sweet-nothings\/advertising-design-cost-learning-curve\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T12:05:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T17:05:56","slug":"advertising-design-cost-learning-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/design\/advertising-design-cost-learning-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising + Design &gt; Cost + Learning Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, Apple&#8217;s done a fair share of designing pretty products (if not hardware wise the best products) and have substantially increased their exposure to the public with product placement (they&#8217;re in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestbuy.com\/site\/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat128500050006&amp;type=category\" target=\"_blank\">Best Buy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Stores<\/a>) and advertising (no more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougintosh.com\/posters\/think_different_ed\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">pretentious posters<\/a>: now we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/getamac\/ads\/\" target=\"_blank\">the PC Guy vs. the Mac<\/a>). In all this, Apple&#8217;s prices haven&#8217;t dropped so much to equate with a PC (that usually gives you more hardware wise). Also, Apple hasn&#8217;t bothered much with training in their products beyond the nearest Apple Store Genius but all in all it&#8217;s paid off.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is now the third largest computer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/articles\/08\/07\/16\/apple_passes_acer_to_become_third_largest_u_s_pc_vendor.html\" target=\"_blank\">seller in the United States, bumping Acer to Fourth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, Apple&#8217;s done a fair share of designing pretty products (if not hardware wise the best products) and have substantially increased their exposure to the public with product placement (they&#8217;re in Best Buy and Apple Stores) and advertising (no more pretentious posters: now we have the PC Guy vs. the Mac). In all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,7],"tags":[186,49,187],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-links-n-junk","category-reviews","tag-acer","tag-apple","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}