{"id":4702,"date":"2010-11-12T06:22:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T13:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2010-11-11T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T18:56:57","slug":"hit-me-on-my-pre-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/hit-me-on-my-pre-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit me on my Pre-Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingcharts.com\/direct\/half-of-mobile-phone-users-considering-iphone-14910\/ihlgroup-mobile-phone-next-phone-purchase-nov10gif\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-attachment-id=\"4703\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/hit-me-on-my-pre-pay\/ihlgroup-mobile-phone-next-phone-purchase-nov10\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ihlgroup-mobile-phone-next-phone-purchase-nov10.gif?fit=585%2C440&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"585,440\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ihlgroup-mobile-phone-next-phone-purchase-nov10\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ihlgroup-mobile-phone-next-phone-purchase-nov10.gif?fit=270%2C203&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ihlgroup-mobile-phone-next-phone-purchase-nov10.gif?fit=540%2C406&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4703\" title=\"ihlgroup-mobile-phone-next-phone-purchase-nov10\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ihlgroup-mobile-phone-next-phone-purchase-nov10.gif?resize=584%2C439\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ihlgroup-mobile-phone-next-phone-purchase-nov10.gif?w=585&amp;ssl=1 585w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ihlgroup-mobile-phone-next-phone-purchase-nov10.gif?resize=270%2C203&amp;ssl=1 270w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ihlgroup-mobile-phone-next-phone-purchase-nov10.gif?resize=540%2C406&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Am I ahead of the curve&#8230; or behind?<\/p>\n<p>I feel special &#8211; Only 8% of the american public are considering standard cell phone purchases in the future.  Which happens to be the exact same percentage of people considering the new Windows phone.<\/p>\n<p>What happened America?  Apple used to own only 8% of the ENTIRE computing world&#8230; and now they own everything.  Yin Yang &#8211; maybe a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsphone\/en-us\/default.aspx?cmpid=7C6421C8-ECAF-41B2-910A-627ED6A584DF\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Phone<\/a> will be my future?  Their ad campaign is certainly genius enough.  <\/p>\n<p>But since they don&#8217;t allow you embed their commercials (horrible microsoft &#8211; but traditional to your brand) &#8211; they just got dropped to almost.<\/p>\n<p>Not for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I ahead of the curve&#8230; or behind? I feel special &#8211; Only 8% of the american public are considering standard cell phone purchases in the future. Which happens to be the exact same percentage of people considering the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/hit-me-on-my-pre-pay\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,140,110,267,111,19,41],"tags":[1138,1139,35,1140,78,712,1141,1137],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oCe7-1dQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hydle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}