{"id":11680,"date":"2010-03-30T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11680"},"modified":"2010-03-30T08:22:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:22:09","slug":"ten-million-ipads-to-be-sold-in-2010-it-could-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11680\/ten-million-ipads-to-be-sold-in-2010-it-could-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten million iPads to be sold in 2010? It could happen&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/iPadApps.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>You heard that right. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2010\/03\/29\/ipad-suppliers-forecast-shipments-of-8-10-million-for-calendar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Stanley is predicting that as many as ten million iPads could be sold in 2010<\/a>. A boatload of them have already been sold, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\/\" target=\"_blank\">the iPad doesn&#8217;t even ship until April 3rd<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>iPad news abounds, of course, and no one needs to be reminded about pudding and eating, all those caveats. But, as with the iPhone, nothing draws a crowd like a crowd. We&#8217;re going to see a paradigm shift in computing even if the iPad &#8220;bombs&#8221; by selling only five million units. My 88-year-old mother-in-law is texting on her iPhone, and, no-doubt, will soon be trolling Facebook for friends and grandchildren. A whole new population of punters is about to join the online world.<\/p>\n<p>Not convinced? I can but smile. We haven&#8217;t even gotten to the good stuff yet, because the insanely great iPad ideas will require a few months of hands-on time. Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\/guided-tours\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apple has posted some guided tours to the iPad<\/a> so you can see what you&#8217;re missing.<\/p>\n<p>My posts on the iPad (so far):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11013\" target=\"_blank\">Apple tablet computer announcement liveblogging now\u2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11040\" target=\"_blank\">The Apple iPad is a category-cataclysm and no one knows it yet: Double-thinking Steve Jobs and his double-suss of the hi-tech marketplace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11088\" target=\"_blank\">iPad observation #1: The iPad is the computer for the rest of us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11091\" target=\"_blank\">iPad observation #2: Find a bigger dead-pool: The iPad eats everything.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11095\" target=\"_blank\">iPad observation #3: If your baby \u2014 or a caveman \u2014 can figure out how to use the iPad, the user-interface works<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11098\" target=\"_blank\">iPad observation #4: Looking for a smart way to connect with your clients in a pull-based marketing world? Update your iPhone\/iPad app.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11102\" target=\"_blank\">iPad observation #5: Linking free slaves, sometimes, but the future of mobile real estate is unknown to attorneys from New York City.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11105\" target=\"_blank\">iPad observation #6: \u201cWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11113\" target=\"_blank\">iPad observation #7: When you\u2019ve built a product that turns whole worlds upside down \u2014 what happens next?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11130\" target=\"_blank\">iPad observation #8: The death of mediocrity and, along with it, the death of contempt for the consumer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11133\" target=\"_blank\">iPad observation #9: I went digging through the heap of festering garbage that is the Vook and came home with <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11680\/ten-million-ipads-to-be-sold-in-2010-it-could-happen\/#more-11680\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You heard that right. Morgan Stanley is predicting that as many as ten million iPads could be sold in 2010. A boatload of them have already been sold, and the iPad doesn&#8217;t even ship until April 3rd. iPad news abounds, of course, and no one needs to be reminded about pudding and eating, all those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,379,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","7":"category-innovation","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-technology","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11961,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11961\/obamas-ipad-review-dear-graduates-ipads-are-a-threat-to-our-country\/","url_meta":{"origin":11680,"position":0},"title":"Obama&#8217;s iPad review:  Dear graduates, iPads are a threat to our country","author":"Al Lorenz","date":"May 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Due to social media, I prayed for Anna to have the grace of god with her this morning.\u00a0 I did not feel like I was damaging the fabric of our country by my simple action.\u00a0 So, I was surprised to learn our president laments that the new media is not\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11737,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11737\/9999999-ipads-left-to-sell\/","url_meta":{"origin":11680,"position":1},"title":"9,999,999 iPads left to sell&#8230;","author":"Damon Chetson","date":"April 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I couldn't help myself. I bought the iPad - the to-be-shipped-in-late-April, 3G & WiFi, 64 gig model. I see significant work applications - for instance, keeping all client files available for court, creating eBooks of NC criminal code so I don't need to lug around books, and, I hope,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11091,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11091\/ipad-observation-2-find-a-bigger-dead-pool-the-ipad-eats-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":11680,"position":2},"title":"iPad observation #2: Find a bigger dead-pool: The iPad eats everything.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Kicking this back to the top. This is me, writing just after the introduction of the iPad -- two very short years ago. At the time I wrote these essays, every so-called \"expert\" on the nets was insisting that the iPad was an unforced error. I was right, they were\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Flourishing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Flourishing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/flourishing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11098,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11098\/ipad-observation-4-looking-for-a-smart-way-to-connect-with-your-warm-network-in-a-pull-based-marketing-world-update-your-iphoneipad-app\/","url_meta":{"origin":11680,"position":3},"title":"iPad observation #4: Looking for a smart way to connect with your clients in a pull-based marketing world? Update your iPhone\/iPad app.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I give away a lot of killer marketing ideas here, but I never worry about the competitive implications. For one thing, I believe to the core of me that it's raining soup, that wealth is pouring out of the skies and almost none of us is smart enough to reap\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Flourishing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Flourishing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/flourishing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11040,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11040\/the-apple-ipad-is-a-category-cataclysm-and-no-one-knows-it-yet-double-thinking-steve-jobs-and-his-double-suss-of-the-hi-tech-marketplace\/","url_meta":{"origin":11680,"position":4},"title":"The Apple iPad is a category-cataclysm and no one knows it yet: Double-thinking Steve Jobs and his double-suss of the hi-tech marketplace","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the question that will appear in the deep-think mainstream media analyses of the brand new Apple iPad: How can hardware vendors answer Apple's new tablet? 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