{"id":53222,"date":"2014-10-03T06:28:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T06:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=53222"},"modified":"2014-10-03T06:28:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T06:28:59","slug":"apple-to-add-gold-to-ipad-lineup-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=53222","title":{"rendered":"Apple to Add Gold to iPad Lineup, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s love affair with gold is about to extend to the iPad, as the company is planning to introduce the color as a new option in an effort to boost lagging tablet sales.<\/p>\n<p>Gold-colored backings for 9.7-inch iPads are set to be released sometime in October, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-10-01\/apple-said-to-add-gold-option-to-ipad-to-goose-sales.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;L65SuNF0ZgqtPMVsemXr0rMTQFtKRAsU&#8221;]A gold iPad would join other products that have sported the metal (or at least the color), including the iPhone 5S and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/09\/09\/iphone-6-apple-watch-recap\/\" data-crackerjax=\"#post-slider\">the new Apple Watch<\/a>, which will be available in actual 18-karat gold.<\/p>\n<p>For an idea of what a gold iPad might look like,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/05\/14\/ipad-gold\/\" data-crackerjax=\"#post-slider\">Stuart Hughes<\/a>, a luxury gadget designer, made a solid gold and diamond-encrusted iPad back in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has struggled to sustain iPad sales, which have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/04\/24\/apples-q2-ipad-sales-werent-so-insanely-great\/\" data-crackerjax=\"#post-slider\">fallen in recent quarters<\/a>, and declined in year-over-year comparisons.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/2791017\" target=\"_blank\">Gartner<\/a>\u00a0are projecting the global tablet market to continue to grow, albeit at a slower pace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s love affair with gold is about to extend to the iPad, as the company is planning to introduce the color as a new option in an effort to boost lagging tablet sales. Gold-colored backings for 9.7-inch iPads are set to be released sometime in October, according to\u00a0Bloomberg. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;L65SuNF0ZgqtPMVsemXr0rMTQFtKRAsU&#8221;]A gold iPad would join other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":53223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-53222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}