iPad mini to go on sale in one month?

Invitations October 10, unveiling October 17 ... sounds about right

By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco, 1st October 2012

A 'major Apple (AAPL) investor' citing 'multiple sources' says that Apple will inform world+dog next Wednesday of an event to be held on October 17 to announce the much-rumored iPad mini.

So says a Monday report by Fortune, which notes that if said source is correct, and if Apple keeps to its usual announcement-to-release scheduling, the iPad mini should be available for purchase on November 2.

The scuttlebuttian iPad mini – as every tech geek who hasn't been summering in Antarctica's Eduardo Frei Montalva Station must know – is the latest hotly rumored piece of Cupertianian kit, sparking reports from BoloPad to Flickr to tech.163.com and beyond.

The late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs famously poured scorn on a small-screen version of his company's groundbreaking iPad. The iPad mini is said by countless rumor mongers to have a 7.85-inch display, substantially smaller in area than the 9.7-inch display of its bigger brother – soon to be known as the iPad maxi, mayhap?

But as more and more rumors of the impending iPad mini surface (no pun intended), and as they become more and more specific, it's beginning to seem as if Jobs may very well have been sandbagging us all.

Clever, clever lad. ®

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Posted Monday 1st October 2012 21:38 GMT

Anonymous Coward

seriously?

from a company that sells 5 million £500+ phones in three days?

Posted Tuesday 2nd October 2012 01:09 GMT

Nanki Poo

Re: To stop us all posting the usual buy/no-buy/walled garden comments...

Argh! I should downvote, but I also want to upvote your comment!

Paradox Alert! Cannot . . . compu-u-ute . . .

Posted Tuesday 2nd October 2012 04:32 GMT

Anonymous Coward

Instead of killing apple, lets nuke those Analysists?

Analysists (these so called experts) affect everyone of us. Pretty well 100% of us EL Reg readers have money invested in the stock market. This is either directly (owning shares/Stock & shares ISA etc) or indirectly (via our pension funds).

An Analysist say that Company XXXX will make YYYY amount of profit/business next Quarter.

Where YYYY = Last year's figure + {now which way is the wind blowing today} * {What horse came in 2nd in the last race yesterday} * {Hefty dose of wishful thinking} * {do I unload my stock in this company today or tomorrow} etc etc etc

Company announces results which are a little short of Anyalysists guesstimate. Share price drops 20% as a result of thie hefty dose of wishful thinking. Thus the value of your pension fund/shareholding drops accordingly.

Even though the company still increased its profits and/or margin the value of the company drops.

I predict (and I don't own directly any apple Shares but I do own a 4yr old iPod) that Apple will increase its profits but will fail to meet the Analysists guestimates. Thus triggering a whole round of Apple is doomed/finished/about to file for Chapter 11 etc messages.

They won't. But that won't stop the naysayers from spouting forth.

I'll be burrying my head in the sand while all that happens. As I'm in the middle of the Negev this won't be hard.

let the 'I hate Apple' down voting begin.