It’s amazing how nine words and two periods can fuel so much speculation. Not even two complete sentences — “We have something you have to see. and touch” is just a sentence and a fragment. And yet, embedded in those lines lies the secret in store for us all (assuming that Tim Cook has decided to make Apple much less interesting in these teaser photos, and we just didn’t get the memo.”
A picture is worth a thousand words, which is why the first impressions of Apple press invitations was visual: the orientation of the iPad photo, together with what appears to be the lack of a home button, spurred people on to analyze the accompanying lines of text and match meaning with the home button-less speculation. Does “And touch” refer to the fact that you’ll have to touch the iPad 3's screen to get back to the home screen? Recent rumored photos of iPad 3 parts deny that notion, but then again, how reliable have these part photos been in predicting new Apple form factors in the past? Not so much.
But since we’re just about 24 hours out from the big March 7th announcement, let’s crunch the words one more time: what if Apple is attributing “see” to iTV — or at least some upgrade to the current Apple TV — and “touch” refers to the new iPad 3?
Maybe you’ve already thought about that possibility in passing — or maybe you haven’t dared to. But others has already taken the plunge. check this out:
The Guardian had this to say about the prospect of iTV debuting tomorrow in their prognostication poll: “An iPad 3? A smaller version? One with LTE/4G? Retina display? And what about Apple TV?”
There’s more.
Mac Rumors has a trending article from yesterday, pointing out that the current Apple TV is all but sold out in stores, indicating that the supply chain has been cut off, ostensibly in anticipation of a new device: “With Apple’s iPad 3 media event now roughly 36 hours away and Apple also expected to unveil an updated Apple TV at the event, we’ve been watching as more and more Apple retail stores are running dry of the current model. By our most recent count, 98% of Apple’s 246 U.S. stores are currently out of stock…” So, Mac Rumors is arguing that this piece of circumstantial evidence might be a clue that iTV — or at least an uptade to the current Apple TV, could be on its way.
Semantically speaking, Apple’s teaser scrawl doesn’t really add up to a dual release: The use of the word “something” throws a wrench into the theory that the are talking about two things, since “something” is singular.” And the sentence fragment “And touch” makes reference to this one thing. Also, Apple has yet to deliver on a big dual release, in spite of the rumor mills trying to will it into reality: last fall, we heard rumors of both an iPhone 4S and 5 release, as well as the dual iPhone 5/iPad 2 Plus release, none of which ever came even remotely true. But given Apple CEO Tim Cook’s recent comments about what sounded a lot like iTV, he clearly has something in works, and it would appear to be coming sooner rather than later.
A picture is worth a thousand words, which is why the first impressions of Apple press invitations was visual: the orientation of the iPad photo, together with what appears to be the lack of a home button, spurred people on to analyze the accompanying lines of text and match meaning with the home button-less speculation. Does “And touch” refer to the fact that you’ll have to touch the iPad 3's screen to get back to the home screen? Recent rumored photos of iPad 3 parts deny that notion, but then again, how reliable have these part photos been in predicting new Apple form factors in the past? Not so much.
But since we’re just about 24 hours out from the big March 7th announcement, let’s crunch the words one more time: what if Apple is attributing “see” to iTV — or at least some upgrade to the current Apple TV — and “touch” refers to the new iPad 3?
Maybe you’ve already thought about that possibility in passing — or maybe you haven’t dared to. But others has already taken the plunge. check this out:
The Guardian had this to say about the prospect of iTV debuting tomorrow in their prognostication poll: “An iPad 3? A smaller version? One with LTE/4G? Retina display? And what about Apple TV?”
There’s more.
Mac Rumors has a trending article from yesterday, pointing out that the current Apple TV is all but sold out in stores, indicating that the supply chain has been cut off, ostensibly in anticipation of a new device: “With Apple’s iPad 3 media event now roughly 36 hours away and Apple also expected to unveil an updated Apple TV at the event, we’ve been watching as more and more Apple retail stores are running dry of the current model. By our most recent count, 98% of Apple’s 246 U.S. stores are currently out of stock…” So, Mac Rumors is arguing that this piece of circumstantial evidence might be a clue that iTV — or at least an uptade to the current Apple TV, could be on its way.
Semantically speaking, Apple’s teaser scrawl doesn’t really add up to a dual release: The use of the word “something” throws a wrench into the theory that the are talking about two things, since “something” is singular.” And the sentence fragment “And touch” makes reference to this one thing. Also, Apple has yet to deliver on a big dual release, in spite of the rumor mills trying to will it into reality: last fall, we heard rumors of both an iPhone 4S and 5 release, as well as the dual iPhone 5/iPad 2 Plus release, none of which ever came even remotely true. But given Apple CEO Tim Cook’s recent comments about what sounded a lot like iTV, he clearly has something in works, and it would appear to be coming sooner rather than later.
