“The invitations have been sent. The crowd is going wild. Twitter, the obvious place for an online tailgate, is abuzz with speculation and excitement. But what can we expect? We’ve dissected the invitation sent out by Apple to see if we can find out,” Nick Bilton and Brian X. Chen report for The New York Times.

“Apple’s choice of the word ‘little’ in the invitation practically screams smaller iPad,” Bilton and Chen report. “We’ve reported that the company is expected to announce a smaller, 7.85-inch iPad.”

Bilton and Chen report, “This is the first time in several years that Apple has held a media event at the California Theater in San Jose, Calif., which can seat 1,100 people, compared to San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the company’s usual site, which can seat 757 people. Making room for more journalists makes sense.”

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