Michael Saylor Made A Prediction About The iPad 12 Years Ago When Tablets Were In Their Infancy, Will His Similarly Bold Prophecy On Bitcoin Also Come True?
Michael Saylor Made A Prediction About The iPad 12 Years Ago When Tablets Were In Their Infancy, Will His Similarly Bold Prophecy On Bitcoin Also Come True?
Michael Saylor is regarded as one of the most influential advocates of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), and his firm MicroStrategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR) has evangelized the digital asset with its continued purchases.
Michael Saylor被認爲是比特幣（加密貨幣：BTC）最有影響力的倡導者之一，他的公司MicroStrategy Inc.（NASDAQ:MSTR）通過持續購買數字資產而成爲了它的信徒。
The entrepreneur's ultra-bullish forecasts about the digital currency have been taken with a pinch of salt. But do you know he made similar bets on iPad and tablet computers when it wasn't even a thing?
這位企業家對數字貨幣的超級看法有點誇大其詞。但你知不知道當平板電腦還不流行的時候，他也對iPad和平板電腦做了類似的賭注？
What Happened: Exactly 10 years ago on this day, Saylor called iPad, developed by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), the "most underappreciated or underestimated new technology."
發生了什麼：就在10年前的這一天，Saylor稱由蘋果公司（NASDAQ:AAPL）開發的iPad是“最不被賞識或最被低估的新技術”。
He famously said that iPad was the first device in history that completes directly with paper, and believed every literate person would "inevitably" end up with an iPad, or similar tablet computers.
他曾經說過，iPad是歷史上第一臺能夠直接與紙張相競爭的設備，並認爲每個有文化的人將“不可避免地”擁有一臺iPad或類似的平板電腦。
The MicroStrategy co-founder then predicted that there would be around 250-300 million tablets in the market by 2015. Well, the reality exceeded his expectations, as the number soared to 840 million by 2014, and 1.28 billion by 2021, according to data from Statista.
MicroStrategy的聯合創始人隨後預測，到2015年市場上將有大約25000-30000萬個平板電腦。事實超出了他的預期，根據Statista的數據，到2014年這一數字已經飆升至84000萬，到2021年則達到12.8億。
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Why It Matters: Saylor's optimistic forecast on tablet PCs highlighted his long-sighted view on emerging technologies.
Saylor對平板電腦的樂觀預測凸顯了他對新興技術的長遠看法。
He has expressed confidence that one Bitcoin would be worth more than a million in the near future, famously saying, "If Bitcoin's not going to zero, it's going to a million."
他表達了關於比特幣的看好信心，並以此預言:“如果比特幣不會跌至零，它將達到100萬美元。”
His bullish sentiment has driven MicroStrategy's Bitcoin corporate reserve strategy, as a result of which the tech company is the world's largest owner of the digital currency, with holdings worth $13.41 billion at the time of writing.
他的看漲情緒推動了MicroStrategy的比特幣公司儲備策略，因此這家科技公司是世界上持有最多數碼貨幣的公司，在撰寫本文時其持股價值爲134.10億美元。
Price Action: At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at $59,231.08, up 3.06% in the last 24 hours, according to data from Benzinga Pro. Shares of MicroStrategy closed 0.89% higher at 1,301.77 during Tuesday's regular session.
價格走勢：根據Benzinga Pro的數據，在撰寫本文時，比特幣的交易價格爲59,231.08美元，過去24小時上漲了3.06%。MicroStrategy的股價在週二的常規交易中收漲0.89%，報1,301.77美元。
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