“As any new Apple product launch gets nearer, the frequency of leaks of supposed parts, and components increases,” Cydia Blog reports. “A new replacement part for iPad 3 Microphone Mic Flex Cable Ribbon has just been surfaced on a Chinese iPhone parts reseller website, TVC-Mall.”
“The new part, when compared with iPad 2, shows a different arrangement in internal circuitry, hinting a major re-design,” Cydia Blog reports. “The existence of a these parts does not necessarily means that it will make its way into the final iPad 3 model.”
Cydia Blog reports, “Manufacturers are often asked to develop multiple versions of parts to test different possible designs and many of them don’t make it past the Apple’s research lab.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
So iPad 3 might be new and different–I’m shocked!
And these “leaked” parts may or may not be for the new “iPad 3.” How much more worthless can a rumor be…
Rumors are useless. (Great) ideas are priceless.
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This type of rumors are good for getting people to hold off on buying the iPad 2.
It’s also good for getting “hits” to a web site reporting such rumors. That’s why Apple-related rumors are almost always spun as “major change.” A modified non-critical part (a “Microphone Mic Flex Cable Ribbon”?) is NOT “hinting a major re-design.” It’s just a stupid cable for the microphone.
But who wants to read a “boring” rumor…?
If something is technically in the realm of possibility, one of these blogs will report it as an BIG Apple rumor from an “inside” source, just to get more hits. They don’t consider if their speculation is actually viable, that it even makes sense from Apple’s business perspective.
Now, if someone gets a hold of the replacement part for the holographic projector, I’m all ears… 🙂
Planted by Apple. How difficult would it be for Apple to have a test run made of a fake part, just to feed and misguide the rumor mill?
Remember the iPhone 5? New cases for the new phone? Different shape? Larger screen? Funny home button?
Half the lies contained in rumors aren’t true