iPad Event 2012: What To Expect At Apple's Announcement On March 7

Apple is probably planning to unveil its latest iPad at an early afternoon event in San Francisco that will kick off at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) on Wednesday, March 7.

In the hours leading up to Apple CEO Tim Cook taking that stage in San Fran, however, the Internet has been breathlessly discussing just what it is Apple will reveal. If it's the next iPad, will the new tablet feature Siri, Apple's popular, spritely Voice Assistant of iPhone 4S fame? What will a new iPad look like? How quickly will I be able to throw this wad of money at Apple, and when will I receive my new iPad in return for said wad of money?

We've been following the Apple rumors for months, and we've collected all that information below into the 9 most prominent and probable rumors ahead of tomorrow's iPad announcement. Which ones will come true?

We are but hours away from finding out, my dear impatient lovelies -- until then, check out what we just might be seeing at Apple's upcoming iPad event.

Comments

[Oldnbored]

12:29 AM on 03/09/2012

Guess what, you're all missing one thing!
You are beratting Jobs and Apple for using Chinese Manu's for the Apple Devices instead of CONUS so that Apple can make $billions more?!? I thought it was the job of the CEO and the board to increase value for the shareholders..... And that is the sole reason!! So aren't your good old Republican Billionaire investors to blame for the demise of US Manu? The very backbone of the Rep Party!
Secondly, Jobs never outsourced Pixar animation to the far east, which I bet he was pressured to do, unlike the Simpsons etc?! And that was his own money he was losing had over fist in the early days!

[Killermolls44]

05:31 AM on 03/08/2012

Great marketing plan... Make a product, barely upgrade it.. few months later upgrade it again then again then again.. and charge too much money.
I wonder how many people will go without food for one of these stupid things.

[esosa233]

07:43 PM on 03/07/2012

I think Apple lost its ingenuity, and now resigned to keep progressively making better versions of the same thing rather than experiment with relatively new ideas like it once did.

[reasonedmind]

01:34 PM on 03/07/2012

made by slaves, for slaves....

[Charles Carmichael]

01:33 PM on 03/07/2012

How about a flash player?

[esosa233]

07:41 PM on 03/07/2012

I.K.R.!!!

[IndependentRule]

01:29 PM on 03/07/2012

I would love to see Apple advertise on Rush Limbaugh.......Oh the agony of the left....

[Gudrun]

01:32 PM on 03/07/2012

They can advertise wherever they like, doesn't bother me!

[dephilli]

01:29 PM on 03/07/2012

They're turning kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers
but what's the real cost cause the sneakers don't seem much cheaper

Seriously Apple. If you pay your workers like a nickle a day make them work 12+ hours a day without a break, and your answer to worker suicide is putting up a bunch of safety nets, why do I have to pay so much for my iPad?

[IndependentRule]

01:29 PM on 03/07/2012

Will the announcement be in Chinese?

[IndependentRule]

01:26 PM on 03/07/2012

Funny Jobs claimed the US doesn't have the "skilled" workers necessarily to build his iCrap here but they can build a Buick....

[Rob Dunford]

12:18 PM on 04/06/2012

but would those 'skilled workers' be able to get their fat butts on the stools and still be able to reach the worktable?

[IndependentRule]

01:22 PM on 03/07/2012

Rather buy a Samsung designed and made in Korea by Koreans than a US Company with Billions in the bank who still has the "need" to exploit Chinese workers.

[dephilli]

01:25 PM on 03/07/2012

Favorite time ten million.

[ConserveLiberally]

02:23 PM on 03/07/2012

likewise...

[kymber23]

01:22 PM on 03/07/2012

Who cares. I'm so tired of this greedy company. Disgusting. What ever new technology that have in this iPad they had when they launched the first one back when.

[sheoples]

01:20 PM on 03/07/2012

how about stopping with planned obsolescence?

how about making products that will be upgradeable.

[jgrant129]

02:00 PM on 03/07/2012

A good idea for consumers, a bad idea for shareholders!

[esosa233]

07:42 PM on 03/07/2012

Well the consumers don't seem to care, they just want to continuously hand over annual payments of $700.

[WeCanBlogIt]

12:48 PM on 03/07/2012

Here is what I expect: millions of people that bought a previous version will now rush and buy this one, just because. Look for some good deals on perfectly good used iPads coming up.

[IndependentRule]

01:19 PM on 03/07/2012

I would not buy an Ipad for for $10. except to resell it to the minions.

[WeCanBlogIt]

01:43 PM on 03/07/2012

Spot on. I'm collecting minions, BTW. Can never have enough minions. ;-)

http://www.zazzle.com/what_i_really_need_are_minions_tshirt-235692028728549519

[demifroggie]

12:47 PM on 03/07/2012

HP, why do you refer to this as an early afternoon event when it's actually at 10 a.m. local time? Might be early afternoon east coast time but it makes no sense from a reporting standpoint.

[dephilli]

01:26 PM on 03/07/2012

More than half on the country lives in the Eastern Time Zone.

[demifroggie]

01:51 PM on 03/07/2012

sure but it still makes no sense from a REPORTING standpoint. It's not an afternoon event. It's a morning event that happens to be in the afternoon for east coast. It's taking place in a zone that is on pacific time. You wouldn't quote something happening at 2am in the UK as happening in the evening, would you?

[Hallucinocynic]

12:47 PM on 03/07/2012

How about addressing labor issues in China, or a partial return to manufacturing in CONUS?

[sheoples]

01:19 PM on 03/07/2012

2x

[dephilli]

01:26 PM on 03/07/2012

Don't forget AK and HI!