A Wall Street Journal article posts a rumor regarding a Apple suppliers testing a “new tablet computer with a smaller screen” — which of course leads some to jump the gun and imagine it to be the iPad 3 (no way) or a future iPad Mini. But note the article never explicitly mentions the iPad by name, and that this is an iPad is conjecture. Plus, the article mentions “testing” (prototype) which is far from a shipping product.
Now that Apple stock has touched $500 a share, some are already contemplating $1000. Which even to this Apple-phile, sounds nuts — but not outside the realm of possibility. Even then, for Apple to reach that point with my confidence, here’s a short list of things I hope for:
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Slave Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) leads a rebellion against the Roman empire.
Sounds like another arrow to put precious wood behind. And it seemed they were doing a pretty good job of reducing the number of arrows.
Apple stock is within striking distance of $500, and actually a lot quicker than I thought possible. I figured it was going to happen sometime this year, but it seems intent on breaking that marker sometime this month. That’s kinda nuts. The reasons seem rather vague — insider information about a dividend, or product rumors regarding Apple TV Proper or iPad 3 — both odd since the former is pure speculation and everything regarding the latter has been totally predictable / unsurprising.