{"id":5121,"date":"2009-03-22T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T20:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Steve-Ballmer-Details-the-Apple-Tax"},"modified":"2009-03-22T16:38:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T20:38:23","slug":"steve-ballmer-details-the-apple-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=5121","title":{"rendered":"Steve Ballmer Details the Apple Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has frequently commented on the so-called “Apple Tax,” which is what is referred to as the premium people pay to buy Apple products. On Thursday, at the McGraw-Hill Companies’ 2009 Media Summit 2009 in New York, Ballmer told people just what exactly that premium gets a consumer. NPD noted that Apple retail sales fell 16% in February, with NPD analyst Steve Baker asserting that the higher prices associated with Apple products are hurting sales in these recessionary times. It should<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has frequently commented on the so-called “Apple Tax,” which is what is referred to as the premium people pay to buy Apple products. On Thursday, at the McGraw-Hill Companies’ 2009 Media Summit 2009 in New York, Ballmer told people just what exactly that premium gets a consumer. NPD noted that Apple retail sales fell 16% in February, with NPD analyst Steve Baker asserting that the higher prices associated with Apple products are hurting sales in these recessionary times. It should Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}