{"id":15087,"date":"2017-02-21T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15087"},"modified":"2017-02-21T01:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T06:04:48","slug":"cuban-app-stores-are-actual-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/cuban-app-stores-are-actual-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban App Stores Are Actual Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15088\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/T-Mobile-cubanos1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/T-Mobile-cubanos1.jpg 710w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/T-Mobile-cubanos1-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/>The Economist wrote about the app buying experience in Cuba:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sanctions mean that software companies aren&#8217;t allowed to offer most apps to those in Cuba.<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneurs have figured out ways to hack the app stores so that they think the person downloading apps is in another country.<\/li>\n<li>App lovers then\u00a0drop their phones off at a store, and for $10\u00a0can have 70 app installed on them. They delete the ones they don&#8217;t want.<\/li>\n<li>The selection of apps on offer is refreshed monthly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/americas\/21716099-ingenious-answer-digital-deprivation-cuba-app-stores-pay-rent\">The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Economist wrote about the app buying experience in Cuba: Sanctions mean that software companies aren&#8217;t allowed to offer most apps to those in Cuba. Entrepreneurs have figured out ways to hack the app stores so that they think the person downloading apps is in another country. App lovers then\u00a0drop their phones off at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/T-Mobile-cubanos1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15089,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15087\/revisions\/15089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}