{"id":4587,"date":"2012-05-28T19:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T01:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2012-05-30T08:37:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:37:55","slug":"a-rare-sight-blackberry-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4587","title":{"rendered":"Black Swan? A Blackberry Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2012\/05\/bb_5232012_clt_jzb.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" border=\"1\" TITLE=\"Blackberry Branded Reatil Store at Charlotte International Airport May, 2012 by Jim Zellmer\"><Br><Br><\/p>\n<p>I snapped this photo in Charlotte while quickly changing planes recently.  Its presence caused me to do an about face as I had not previously seen a Blackberry branded retail store &#8211; nor did I ever expect to encounter such a place.  <br \/><Br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rim.com\">RIM<\/a> was once a high flyer, but, via this informative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymco.com\">Horace Dediu<\/a> chart, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/9q0sqo\">has been unable to address the iPhone led smartphone disruption<\/a>.  <br \/><Br><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_swan_theory\">Black Swan Theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brian S. Hall has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianshall.com\/content\/shipped-not-sold\">following the Smartphone wars for some time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I snapped this photo in Charlotte while quickly changing planes recently. Its presence caused me to do an about face as I had not previously seen a Blackberry branded retail store &#8211; nor did I ever expect to encounter such a place. RIM was once a high flyer, but, via this informative Horace Dediu chart, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21,39,36,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}