Time for everyone to take a deep breath and use common sense about the latest Apple tablet rumors.
Let’s start with a reality check. There is no Apple tablet. No one at Apple, speaking for Apple, has ever made any mention whatsoever of such a product in any way. Not as a future product, not as an idea for a product. Not even as a denial of the product. Anyone who would have deep inside knowledge of such a project is locked away in a room somewhere in Cupertino. Sure, there may be some outsiders who were brought in on the manufacturing side, or to consult about concurrent software offerings, but none of those people is going to have any clue about release schedules or product details.
So when you read an article that says “reliable sources” have revealed that Apple has delayed the release of the tablet, you have to wonder exactly how that’s possible. How can a company delay the release of a product that doesn’t exist? And even if it does exist, until Apple announces a release date, they can’t miss that release date, delay that release date, etc.
I remember the good old days, when crazy Apple speculation was all coming from the fans, who just wanted to be excited about the next big product, or who wanted to show off their “inside” knowledge. The rumors were nuts, but at least they were made in good fun.
Nowadays few, if any, of the rumors are coming from there. Today, if you want to get to the bottom of the Apple rumor mill, you just need to follow the money.
Watch the stock price rise and fall. And then remember why these rumors exist.
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I’m as excited as anyone to find out where Apple will go next. And I have no doubt that at the most basic tenant of the rumor (Apple is almost ready to release some sort of tablet computer) is true. But anyone claiming any sort of details beyond that is either grasping at straws from a fourth-hand source, or simply pulling the whole thing out of their ass. So let Wall Street play its games, and sit back and wait for the real news sometime next year. And for god’s sake, stop calling it the iTablet. Apple is a lot more creative than that.
