{"id":3081,"date":"2012-12-06T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riguy.azurewebsites.net\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2014-12-19T01:56:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T01:56:38","slug":"microsoft-surface-rt-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=3081","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Surface RT Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Surface sales numbers higher than tought? Interesting opinion &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>If<\/em> Microsoft&#8217;s tablet has a sales problem &#8212; and let&#8217;s strut that I-F again &#8212; distribution is the reason. The product isn&#8217;t overpriced or flawed. Microsoft only sells Surface through the company store; that&#8217;s online and (by my count) 66 retail shops. Sixty stores are in the continental United States, five in Canada and another in Puerto Rico. There are only a limited number of places anyone can buy the tablet, which limits how many the company can sell. What matters more is how many Microsoft sells per store. Pundits crying &#8220;fail&#8221; are nincompoops of the nth degree. If any of them <i>bothered<\/i> to look at Apple Store, they would understand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2012\/12\/05\/surface-rt-sales-are-probably-quite-good-you-just-dont-know-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">BeatNews Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Surface sales numbers higher than tought? Interesting opinion &#8230; &#8220;If Microsoft&#8217;s tablet has a sales problem &#8212; and let&#8217;s strut that I-F again &#8212; distribution is the reason. The product isn&#8217;t overpriced or flawed. Microsoft only sells Surface through the company store; that&#8217;s online and (by my count) 66 retail shops. Sixty stores are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=3081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Surface RT Sales&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}