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Yes, in so far as major, main-stream news organizations (NYTimes, Wall St. Journal, etc.) have treated it as fact for months now. Additionally, if Apple were no
by necubi 17y ago
Yes, in so far as major, main-stream news organizations (NYTimes, Wall St. Journal, etc.) have treated it as fact for months now. Additionally, if Apple were not about to announce a tablet they would have squashed this ages ago, as they have squashed previous out-of-control rumors that had no basis, like rumors about the imminent release of an ebook reader or netbook. Apple knows it can't allow this level of hype to build up if nothing is to come from it, and it knows that if February comes without a tablet announcement its stock with take a huge hit. Therefore, their silence is as good a confirmation as needed that the tablet does indeed exist and will indeed be announced soon.
- icefox 17y agoSo what you are saying is that I could post a blog saying anything I want and get a lot of traffic, apple wont complain, and places like HN will post it?
- jonknee 17y agoYou're at least 10 years late to the party of making an Apple rumors site, but yes that's definitely something you could do.
- necubi 17y agoNo, because one blog post from (sorry to say) an un-credible source is not comparable to the current noise around the Apple tablet. Again, major newspapers have reported on the tablet as fact. Major sources in the apple-news world (DaringFireball, AppleInsider, MacRumors, etc.) have done the same. Since this is widely being treated as fact, if it were not true Apple would be forced to do something about it, especially as they will be having a special media event in January after which their stock will fall precipitously if they do not announce a tablet.