{"id":9314,"date":"2012-04-07T23:07:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=9314"},"modified":"2012-04-07T23:08:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T21:08:19","slug":"4g-ipad-marketing-lands-apple-in-hot-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/9314\/4g-ipad-marketing-lands-apple-in-hot-water\/","title":{"rendered":"4G iPad marketing lands Apple in hot water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s advertising regulator is deciding whether to launch an inquiry into Apple Inc&#8217;s marketing of its latest iPad following what some customers said were misleading claims about access to 4G, which is not available in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth-generation or 4G technology enables users to access faster Internet broadband services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have received 24 complaints about claims on Apple&#8217;s website about 4G on the iPad. We are assessing whether there are grounds for investigation,&#8221; a spokesman for the Advertising Standards Authority said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The company could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has come up against a similar problem in Australia, whose consumer watchdog took legal action last month to ensure the company makes consumers aware that its latest version of the hand-held computer cannot connect to 4G in Australia, prompting Apple to offer refunds to all affected buyers in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s advertising regulator is deciding whether to launch an inquiry into Apple Inc&#8217;s marketing of its latest iPad following what some customers said were misleading claims about access to 4G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2278,51,26,92],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-4g","tag-apple","tag-headline","tag-ipad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9317,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions\/9317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}