{"id":9060,"date":"2010-12-31T20:47:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/buy_that_ipad_2_case_now.html"},"modified":"2010-12-31T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T20:47:09","slug":"buy-that-ipad-2-case-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/buy-that-ipad-2-case-now.html","title":{"rendered":"Buy That iPad 2 Case Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/ipad-2-case.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2010\/12\/ipad-2-case-thumb-500x392-8561.jpg\" alt=\"ipad-2-case.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><br \/>You know who you are&#8230; You need to be the first to have everything. You will wait in line for hours so you can have a piece of electronics your friends and relatives will drool over.<\/p>\n<p>We all know the iPad 2 is coming and unless you happen to be a personal friend of Steve Jobs &#8211; and even then, you probably aren&#8217;t going to get one before everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>But while you wait, how about picking up a case or two or even 500 for your iPad 2.<\/p>\n<p>You see Alibaba the site used to connect manufacturers in Asia with resellers and distributors worldwide has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alibaba.com\/trade\/search?SearchText=ipad+2+case&amp;Country=&amp;CatId=0&amp;IndexArea=product_en&amp;fsb=y&amp;viewAllCategory=\">two listings<\/a> for iPad 2 cases. Both have camera holes in them and frankly look just like large iPod Touch or iPhone cases.<\/p>\n<p>One has a slew of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alibaba.com\/product-gs\/391455800\/Fit_for_apple_ipad_2_case\/showimage.html\">colorful case choices<\/a> while the other has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alibaba.com\/product-gs\/392764627\/for_iPad_2_cases.html\">dark translucent cover<\/a> for the next-gen Apple tablet.<\/p>\n<p>As I inferred above, you more than likely have to order the cases by the hundred. One other thing &#8211; since news of the cases started to surface, many were taken off the site and apparently when the manufacturers are pressed on how they know what the specs are, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2010\/12\/31\/the-mysterious-case-of-the-ipad-2-cases\/\">they hang up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know who you are&#8230; You need to be the first to have everything. You will wait in line for hours so you can have a piece of electronics your friends and relatives will drool over. We all know the iPad 2 is coming and unless you happen to be a personal friend of Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,172,196,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}