Duri News - As an editor, I’m pretty much contractually obliged to be cautious. So many rumors are constantly swirling around the next hot Apple gadget that one has to keep an open mind about all of them — every last one could be wrong. The company could teach the NSA a thing or two about secrecy, so there’s never any official denial or confirmation.
But sometimes, just sometimes, you get a hot tip from a good source with an unblemished track record. It confirms something you’ve been feeling in your gut for days, and you start scribbling down all the reasons why it would make sense.
That’s what happened Monday, and that’s why I’m prepared to cast caution aside and call it: the device we’ll be watching Apple unveil on Wednesday is called the iPad HD, not the iPad 3.
The first clues on this trail came last week, when a Gizmodo tipster uncovered evidence that Griffin and Belkin — longtime Apple peripheral makers trusted by the company — had ‘iPad HD’ cases buried in acres of dry accessory listings like the ark of the covenant in a warehouse of boxes. The site added another, less appealing rumor from an app developer on a Romanian forum that claimed to see an iPad HD show up in the apparently un-spoofable usage stats for his app Tapatalk.
Then Monday we got a heads-up from our source that the iPad HD name was a go. We started hunting for a second source. Shortly thereafter, CNET and VentureBeat got the same word from their sources.
This matches the pattern of activity around the iPhone 4S launch — a couple of days beforehand, we saw a sudden flurry of rumors to the effect that everyone expecting an iPhone 5 had got the wrong name. Unfortunately, they were all but drowned in a sea of iPhone 5 rumors. This time, we’re paying closer attention to alternate names.
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But sometimes, just sometimes, you get a hot tip from a good source with an unblemished track record. It confirms something you’ve been feeling in your gut for days, and you start scribbling down all the reasons why it would make sense.
That’s what happened Monday, and that’s why I’m prepared to cast caution aside and call it: the device we’ll be watching Apple unveil on Wednesday is called the iPad HD, not the iPad 3.
The first clues on this trail came last week, when a Gizmodo tipster uncovered evidence that Griffin and Belkin — longtime Apple peripheral makers trusted by the company — had ‘iPad HD’ cases buried in acres of dry accessory listings like the ark of the covenant in a warehouse of boxes. The site added another, less appealing rumor from an app developer on a Romanian forum that claimed to see an iPad HD show up in the apparently un-spoofable usage stats for his app Tapatalk.
Then Monday we got a heads-up from our source that the iPad HD name was a go. We started hunting for a second source. Shortly thereafter, CNET and VentureBeat got the same word from their sources.
This matches the pattern of activity around the iPhone 4S launch — a couple of days beforehand, we saw a sudden flurry of rumors to the effect that everyone expecting an iPhone 5 had got the wrong name. Unfortunately, they were all but drowned in a sea of iPhone 5 rumors. This time, we’re paying closer attention to alternate names.
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