{"id":3596,"date":"2011-06-28T13:30:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T12:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2011-06-28T11:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T10:02:55","slug":"lets-leverage-a-baseball-analogy-to-the-hp-touchpad-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/06\/lets-leverage-a-baseball-analogy-to-the-hp-touchpad-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s leverage a baseball analogy to the HP TouchPad story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"The industry will ship between 500 million to 600 million PCs next year. What did [the industry] sell in pads, 14 million?" says Phil McKinney, president and CTO of HP’s personal systems group. "Everyone’s trying to make it seem the conclusion has been decided. We’re still in the top of the first inning… I’m not much of a baseball person, but I always say that the first person up at bat can never hit a grand slam."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Actually it’s the top of the second innings, and Apple has already went through the nine man batting order, scored eight runs, and is on the second variant of the iPad. I’m not much of a baseball person either, but competition is competition. It’s never to early to start winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

"The industry will ship between 500 million to 600 million PCs next year. What did [the industry] sell in pads, 14 million?" says Phil McKinney, president and CTO of HP’s personal systems group. "Everyone’s trying to make it seem the conclusion has been decided. We’re still in the top of the first inning… I’m not much of a baseball person, but I always say that the first person up at bat can never hit a grand slam." Actually it’s the top of the second innings, and Apple has already went through the nine man batting order, scored eight runs, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[606,25,52,2383],"tags":[2385,2323,2252,2386,2384],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-link-log","category-web-2point0","category-webos-pocket-computers-and-phones","tag-baseball","tag-hp","tag-ipad","tag-mlb","tag-touchpad","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-W0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}