{"id":647536,"date":"2013-03-19T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T15:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=371912"},"modified":"2013-03-19T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T15:50:58","slug":"the-boy-genius-report-apples-billion-dollar-mobile-payment-magic-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647536","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Genius Report: Apple\u2019s billion dollar mobile payment magic trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/19\/apple-mobile-payments-analysis-itunes-371912\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"598\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/apple-mobile-payments.jpg?w=650&amp;h=598&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple Mobile Payments Analysis\" title=\"Apple\" \/><\/a><\/center>Apple (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>) shares have fallen more than 35% since hitting a record high last September. The tech press has declared that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> is doomed. On the defensive. Unable to compete with <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS\">005930<\/a>). Never mind that the company <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/01\/23\/apple-earnings-q1-2013-303497\/\">only pulled in $13 billion in profit last quarter<\/a>, and only has $140 billion in cash, and that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/11\/iphone-5-lifetime-sales-est-368459\/\">Apple has the best-selling smartphone in the world<\/a>. There is one thing that Wall Street analysts have forgotten in their reports, models, and projections \u2014 Apple has 500 million <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/itunes\">iTunes<\/a> accounts with credit cards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/19\/apple-mobile-payments-analysis-itunes-371912\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/SJ1e9w__Ulk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple (AAPL) shares have fallen more than 35% since hitting a record high last September. The tech press has declared that Apple is doomed. On the defensive. Unable to compete with Samsung (005930). Never mind that the company only pulled in $13 billion in profit last quarter, and only has $140 billion in cash, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7625,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}