{"id":3209,"date":"2009-12-24T18:02:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/how-the-apple-tablet-is-already-making-people-rich-data\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T18:02:15","slug":"how-the-apple-tablet-is-already-making-people-rich-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/how-the-apple-tablet-is-already-making-people-rich-data.php","title":{"rendered":"How the Apple Tablet Is Already Making People Rich [Data]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2009\/12\/tabket.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ac2ca_500x_tabket.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>It's understandable that Apple stock is doing well&mdash;they've had a very, very good year. But after a huge rally this morning, their stock it at its highest price <em>ever<\/em>. See, yesterday, something magical happened.<\/p><p>A few minutes before the NYSE's 4:00 EST closing, at 8:18 PM GMT (3:18 EST), the <em>Financial Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/techblog\/2009\/12\/exclusive-apple-to-host-event-in-january\/\">published a rumor<\/a>: Apple will make a major product announcement on January 26th in San Francisco. That was it! But in the context of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-to-demo-tablet-in-january-asks-developers-to-get-apps-ready-2009-12\">increasingly frenzied<\/a> rumors about an <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #appletablet\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/appletablet\/\">Apple tablet<\/a>, this could only mean one thing to tech followers. And, apparently, to investors. I'll spare you the strained metaphysics of a full Santa\/tablet analogy, but trust me, it's there, somewhere.<\/p><p>A small part (read: all) of me wants this whole thing to be a joke, and for <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #stevejobs\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/stevejobs\/\">Steve Jobs<\/a> to take the stage in January to announce the long-awaited followup to the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/157463\/apple-fun-announcements-ipod-hi+fi-stereo\">iPod Hi-Fi<\/a>, and a new capacity option for the iPod Classic. There would be no bitterness. Just respect. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20091224\/bs_nm\/us_apple_stocks\">Reuters<\/a>]<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=bfb350c099af531f420cf4cae7d991e7&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=bfb350c099af531f420cf4cae7d991e7&amp;p=1\"><\/a><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wFBdChPRV8PNtEw-RXMmON0qfcE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5b19b_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wFBdChPRV8PNtEw-RXMmON0qfcE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5b19b_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=zNvl_yQgNmI:-6Hh08j1m8E:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5b19b_full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=zNvl_yQgNmI:-6Hh08j1m8E:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5b19b_full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=zNvl_yQgNmI:-6Hh08j1m8E:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5b19b_full?i=zNvl_yQgNmI:-6Hh08j1m8E:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=zNvl_yQgNmI:-6Hh08j1m8E:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5b19b_full?i=zNvl_yQgNmI:-6Hh08j1m8E:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5b19b_zNvl_yQgNmI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's understandable that Apple stock is doing well&mdash;they've had a very, very good year. But after a huge rally this morning, their stock it at its highest price ever. See, yesterday, something magical happened.A few minutes before the NYSE's 4:00 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/how-the-apple-tablet-is-already-making-people-rich-data.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurist"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}