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A. T. Faust:

Still, rumors are just rumors, and they aren’t particularly convincing in and of themselves. It doesn’t matter how many sources echo some generic sentiment. What does matter is a rumor’s singular specificity. In this case, it’s that pesky 7.85 inches.

And what makes everything even more convincing is that the leaky sources never sought to explain why that number’s so darned significant!

Nice detective work by Faust. At the end (spoiler alert!), he is certain Apple will launch a smaller iPad this year, to be called the iPad mini. Watch it destroy everything in its path. Via John Gruber.