{"id":4437,"date":"2012-03-19T11:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T23:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2012-03-19T16:20:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:20:16","slug":"the-new-ipad%e2%80%99s-unexpected-effect-on-luxury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4437","title":{"rendered":"The new iPad\u2019s unexpected effect on luxury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/material-world\/2012\/03\/19\/the-new-ipads-unexpected-effect-on-luxury\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter#axzz1paAXwZ9R\">Vanessa Friedman<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>When the new  iPad went on-sale at midnight last Friday night it provoked the usual frenzy \u2014 miles of lines, ecstatic buyers \u2014 as well as one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwd.com\/fashion-blogs\/is_apple_a_luxury_retailer-12-03\">very interesting blog<\/a> that somehow seems to have fallen through the cracks over the weekend. I think it\u2019s worth revisiting.<\/p>\n<p>It was written by Evan Clark, deputy business editor of WWD (the site of insider fashion publication Women\u2019s Wear Daily), and it takes a good, analytic look at the general perception that Apple is a luxury brand (a perception that Apple itself has created), pointing out that it does tick all the boxes save one; exclusivity. But here\u2019s what I wonder: is exclusivity really a luxury value these days?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Friedman: When the new iPad went on-sale at midnight last Friday night it provoked the usual frenzy \u2014 miles of lines, ecstatic buyers \u2014 as well as one very interesting blog that somehow seems to have fallen through the cracks over the weekend. I think it\u2019s worth revisiting. It was written by Evan Clark, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}