The date of an announcement regarding the iPad 2 has recently been rumored to be scheduled on February 9th. While 9to5Mac has an infinitely better record of predictions than us, we are going to stick our necks out once again and argue that it is actually going to take place on February 2nd. The reasons for this are listed below, but please note that this is purely speculation on a Friday afternoon.
Venue: The Moscone Center is free from the 30th Jan – 5th Feb. The Moscone is booked for Feb 9th which is the date that has been thrown about for a possible announcement. An announcement of this magnitude would require a big venue. It should also be noted that the Yerba Buena Center is free on this date as well, although this mid-sized venue would probably not be used for the announcement.
Marketing: February 2nd is of course 2/2/11 – the first 2 is the iPad 2, the 11 is of course iWork ’11 and the other 2, well, we haven’t figured that one out yet (probably the Magic Mouse 2 or signifying that the iPad is taking a big number 2 on its competition).
Timing: The day before the Verizon iPhone is released for pre-order, Apple will hold this event announcing two exciting products, among them an iPad 2 that is compatible with the Verizon and AT&T networks.
Significance: Dell is rumored to be planning on holding an event to launch the Dell Streak tablet on T-Mobile on the 2nd Feb. Apple would surely love to upstage them. Additionally, Sprint is confirmed to be holding a mystery event on Feb 7th and HP is confirmed to be holding a Web OS event on Feb 9th, perhaps to introduce a tablet device. They are going to fall pretty flat once people see how good the iPad 2 is beforehand.
Event Name – It’s going to be a play on the word ‘two’
Two’s Company
