{"id":651635,"date":"2013-04-10T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T16:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=428106"},"modified":"2013-04-10T12:20:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T16:20:40","slug":"next-two-weeks-will-decide-if-the-new-h7n9-flu-will-undermine-phone-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651635","title":{"rendered":"Next two weeks will decide if the new H7N9 flu will undermine phone sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/smartphone-sales-analysis-h7n9-flu-428106\/\"><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=\"Smartphone Sales Analysis\" title=\"Smartphones\" \/><\/a><\/center>Asian disease epidemics can be poison for consumer electronics sales. The big SARS scare of 2003 had a major impact on Chinese handset volumes. In April of the year SARS swept the East, Chinese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/biz\/archives\/2003\/06\/17\/2003055623\">phone sales abruptly declined<\/a> by nearly 10%, violently reversing the month-on-month sales growth of March. Back then, China was such a small part of worldwide phone sales that the spring swoon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/2240052392\/Sars-outbreak-fails-to-dent-second-quarter-mobile-phone-sales\">did not have much of a global impact<\/a>. 10 years later, China&#8217;s role in global handset market is far greater, and the consumer reaction to a new epidemic could move the needle on worldwide shipment volumes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/smartphone-sales-analysis-h7n9-flu-428106\/?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\/tJwK9zqVVSY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian disease epidemics can be poison for consumer electronics sales. The big SARS scare of 2003 had a major impact on Chinese handset volumes. In April of the year SARS swept the East, Chinese phone sales abruptly declined by nearly 10%, violently reversing the month-on-month sales growth of March. Back then, China was such a [&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-651635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651635","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=651635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}