{"id":19483,"date":"2013-05-14T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T16:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=19483"},"modified":"2013-05-14T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T16:21:23","slug":"will-the-htc-first-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/internet-2\/social-media\/will-the-htc-first-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Will The HTC First Last?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know what’s never a good sign? When a “hot” product has prices slashed after barely a month on the market. As such, people took notice this weekend when the HTC First was slashed in price to $0.99 with no fanfare.<\/p>\n

Now, there are rumors<\/a> that this is just the first stage. AT&T reached out to BGR<\/em> about the rumor that the First is a dismal failure that will soon be shelved and have stated, “As mentioned previously, we do pricing promotions all the time and have made no decisions on future plans.” That’s a bit\u00a0boilerplate. The price slash on the First came with no announcement, and the claims from BGR<\/em> that salespeople simply have no interest in moving the unit sounds very much like what killed the Pre Plus on Verizon. In fact, even if AT&T corporate doesn’t kill the First, retail channels can do that effectively enough in an unofficial capacity.<\/p>\n

I’m not a big fan of retailers trying to talk people out of buying the product they want, but in the case of the First, I may be on the retailer’s side. After all, if you can download Home to any Android device, why bother paying a premium for outdated hardware to run it on? It’s such an obvious question that one has to wonder how no one at AT&T or Facebook thought of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know what’s never a good sign? When a “hot” product has prices slashed after barely a month on the market. As such, people took notice this weekend when the HTC First was slashed in price to $0.99 with no fanfare. Now, there are rumors that this is just the first stage. AT&T reached out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1920,1917,1609],"tags":[65,124,4441,3,6,4433,2746,2046],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19494,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483\/revisions\/19494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}