{"id":5738,"date":"2014-02-23T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2014-02-23T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T15:02:23","slug":"asymcar-10-asleep-at-the-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5738","title":{"rendered":"Asymcar 10: Asleep at the Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The orthodox vs. the unorthodox: Tata, Tesla and Toyota. Why might an asymmetric competitor lose and a symmetric competitor win?<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;We begin with Tesla and Apple. We continue with aluminum vehicles and re-visit information asymmetry as Horace exploits it to buy a Mercedes on eBay.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;We talk about car APIs (Aux input jack and ODBII) and much, much more.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;A brief discussion considers the perils of endless line extension up and down the market, perhaps fueled by financialization.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;This is a good one.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Asymcar 10: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymcar.com\/?p=223\">Asleep at the switch | Asymcar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The orthodox vs. the unorthodox: Tata, Tesla and Toyota. Why might an asymmetric competitor lose and a symmetric competitor win?&nbsp;&nbsp;We begin with Tesla and Apple. We continue with aluminum vehicles and re-visit information asymmetry as Horace exploits it to buy a Mercedes on eBay.&nbsp;&nbsp;We talk about car APIs (Aux input jack and ODBII) and much, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5739,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5738\/revisions\/5739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}