{"id":7632,"date":"2019-03-29T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2019-03-29T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:47:11","slug":"apple-acceptance-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7632","title":{"rendered":"Apple Acceptance Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financialization is pervasive, today.   <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that Apple, perhaps the large organization most concerned about image and experience has succumbed to the primacy of &#8220;the deal&#8221;, or just _____ per month.<\/p>\n<p>To wit:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2019\/03\/aac01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2019\/03\/aac02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2019\/03\/aac03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I suspect a promotional poster at the store entrance was not part of the planned aesthetic.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s store app and web page prominently feature monthly payments:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2019\/03\/aac04.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2019\/03\/aac05.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/apple-card\/\">Apple&#8217;s titanium card<\/a> seems timely.   It will be interesting to see how the risk \/ reward relationship with Goldman Sachs plays out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financialization is pervasive, today. I&#8217;ve noticed that Apple, perhaps the large organization most concerned about image and experience has succumbed to the primacy of &#8220;the deal&#8221;, or just _____ per month. To wit: I suspect a promotional poster at the store entrance was not part of the planned aesthetic. Apple&#8217;s store app and web page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/7632"}],"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=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}