{"id":2492,"date":"2010-06-05T18:16:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T01:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2010-06-05T18:16:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T01:16:28","slug":"you-know-its-the-future-when-digital-db-meters-cost-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/06\/05\/you-know-its-the-future-when-digital-db-meters-cost-1\/","title":{"rendered":"You know it&#8217;s the future when digital db meters cost $1."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought a basic digital sound level meter. For $1. Three years ago, it likely would have cost me at least $60. But because the one I just bought uses my iPhone as a platform, the vendor cuts out at least 98.3% of the previous retail price \u2013 i.e., the cost of designing, manufacturing, delivering and having retailers stock a physical, single-use device.<\/p>\n<p>How will Radio Shack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiosixdigital.com\/spl_meter.html\">survive<\/a> if not by selling apps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just bought a basic digital sound level meter. For $1. Three years ago, it likely would have cost me at least $60. But because the one I just bought uses my iPhone as a platform, the vendor cuts out at least 98.3% of the previous retail price \u2013 i.e., the cost of designing, manufacturing,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}