{"id":651376,"date":"2013-04-09T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=425618"},"modified":"2013-04-09T11:30:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T15:30:03","slug":"steep-apple-samsung-price-cuts-blast-rivals-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651376","title":{"rendered":"Steep Apple, Samsung price cuts blast rivals across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/apple-samsung-price-cuts-analysis-425618\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/bgr-best-smartphones-2012.jpg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple Samsung Price Cuts\" title=\"Smartphones\" \/><\/a><\/center>A string of recent iPhone and Galaxy price cuts has rocked the phone markets from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uswitch.com\/mobiles\/news\/2013\/04\/samsung_galaxy_s3_price_cut_on_o2_t_mobile_and_orange\/\">Europe<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todaysiphone.com\/2013\/04\/iphone-4-4s-get-25-price-cut-in-brazil\/\">Brazil<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itechpost.com\/articles\/7315\/20130331\/samsung-galaxy-s-advance-gets-big-price-cut-india.htm\">India<\/a>. This is the season for price cuts from Apple (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=AAPL\">AAPL<\/a>) and Samsung (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=005930.KS\">005930<\/a>), and we see the same thing every year. But this time around, the cuts are more severe than we have ever seen before. Some pricing on Galaxy S models in Asia have dropped by nearly 50% as Samsung battles back against the insurgency of upstart brands like Micromax and Karbonn. The Galaxy S III&#8217;s price in Europe has plunged by nearly 40% from June 2012 as Samsung prepares to debut the Galaxy S4. Apple&#8217;s iPhone 4 has dipped to just $270 in Brazil. In India, Apple now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.in\/news\/the-inside-story-of-how-apple-offers-rs-7000-for-your-old-smartphone-when-you-buy-an-iphone-4-in-india\/\">offers to pay 7,000 rupees<\/a>\u00a0for old smartphones from consumers who trade them in towards an iPhone 4 \u2014 probably the most aggressive promotion Apple has ever launched over there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/apple-samsung-price-cuts-analysis-425618\/?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\/Px9CC5p1_uw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A string of recent iPhone and Galaxy price cuts has rocked the phone markets from Europe to Brazil to India. This is the season for price cuts from Apple (AAPL) and Samsung (005930), and we see the same thing every year. But this time around, the cuts are more severe than we have ever seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651376","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\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}