Now this is exciting. Read the original by John Paczkowski on AllThingsD
Apple’s not holding an event in February — strange, unusual or otherwise. But it is holding one in March — to launch its next iPad.
Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2, and will do so at one of its trademark special events. The event will be held in San Francisco, presumably at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple’s preferred location for big announcements like these.
No word yet on a street date for the iPad 3 (assuming that’s what it’s called), though my guess is retail availability will follow roughly the same schedule as that of the iPad 2: Available for purchase a week or so after the event.
On a somewhat related note, take a look at Apple’s stock price. As Steve Troughton-Smith pointed out on Twitter today, the slope is terrifying. Tom Hutchinson also reckons that “it’s currently more profitable to own an Apple share than to work for minimum wage”!