iPad 3 rumor rollup for the week ending Jan. 31

Purning toints, lawsuits, boycotts, and catching up

By John Cox, Network World
February 01, 2012 06:08 AM ET

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Turning points don't come very often. But iPad 3, still unannounced and as-yet-unglimpsed and un-picked-up-in-a-beerhouse, is going to be one for sure and the iOSsphere is getting ready for it.

This week, the monumental iPad 3, lawsuits in translation, dismissing calls for an Apple boycott, and why iPad 3 will have a high-def display.

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"[T]here has long been no doubt in the minds of any tech-enthusiasts or even casual observers that the iPad was indeed the primary passion of Jobs ... therefore the upcoming launch of the third-generation model could not be more significant." Kay Coleman, NewsSizzle.com, demonstrating the freeform "If A, then D" logic of the iOSsphere

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iPad 3 will be "turning point in history of Apple" not to mention the world

The Most Embarrassing Surfeit of Apple Superlatives Award this week goes to Kay Coleman, contributing writer at a website called News Sizzle ("What's Hot").

The surfeit begins with the headline: "iPad 3 Release Date Press Event to Signal Turning Point in History of Apple."

And it continues with the opening sentence: "As if the upcoming press event likely to signal the announcement of the iPad 3 release date will not be monumental enough in its own right, the fact that Tim Cook will be taking the stage for the first time since the tragic passing of Steve Jobs will undoubtedly make it a truly pivotal point in the history of Apple."

Perhaps she's hoping to find a slot on the iPad ad copywriting team: "iPad 3. Magical. Monumental." Or perhaps she's channeling Shakespeare. [See "If William Shakespeare wrote an Apple rumor blog"] If only she was writing for The Onion, which in 2009 definitively covered the introduction of Apple's latest must-have gadget, the MacBook Wheel.

But in case you missed the point about iPad 3 being monumental in its own right, Coleman continues, with only a semblance of logic: "there has long been no doubt in the minds of any tech-enthusiasts or even casual observers that the iPad was indeed the primary passion of Jobs, even above and beyond the iPhone, therefore the upcoming launch of the third-generation model could not be more significant."

The motto of the iOSsphere is: I have no doubt, therefore it exists.

"As of now, the iPad 2 is still by far the most revered and popular tablet PC the market has ever seen, with Apple as a whole being the only true dominating presence in the field as a whole." The use of "revered" strikes just the right tone when talking about Anything Apple. "The vision of Jobs was a world where tablet PCs would eventually replace laptops and desktops, which seemed entirely implausible at the time though seems to be gathering momentum as a true possibility with each passing day."

For some of us, with each passing hour, so wondrous is it to live in the looming presence of the third-generation monumentality of the iPad 3.

And what can we expect? Coleman is a bit vague on this, but we can be sure it will be an historic, pivotal turning point that could not be more significant. "All in all, a thinner, lighter, more powerful and endlessly more functional device is expected, though exactly how such upgrades will manifest remains privileged information we will only be privy to when Tim Cook is good and ready to share."