Forbes called for an October 10 iPad mini media event and missed, forcing author Philip Elmer-DeWitt to apologize, writing "I don't know what I was doing in the rumor business in the first place". Then, John Paczkowski of the Wall Street Journal-owned AllThingsD blog set another date for the elusive iPad mini announcement.
Paczkowski, who is rarely wrong about these things, said Apple would hold a media event to announce the smaller iPad at an intimate Cupertino Town Hall presser next Tuesday, October 23 (and Reuters concurs). Spoiling Microsoft's Surface party, Apple just issued invites to select members of the press.
A departure from past events, this one will be held next Tuesday, October 23 in San Jose's California Theatre rather than San Francisco or at Apple's Cupertino campus. The event is scheduled to take place at 10am Pacific and iDownloadBlog will provide around the clock coverage to keep you updated with everything related to Apple's announcements.
The invitation graphics leaves little room for doubt: Apple is about to unveil a smaller, inexpensive iPad, as suggested by its tagline which reads "We've got a little more to show you". If I wanted to be cynical, I'd say that a product everyone has virtually known about for months ends up being the biggest tech story of the day. Hey, this is Apple...
