Report: Wednesday Jan. 27 Set For Major Apple Announcement

Leander Kahney ()

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The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; Apple's favorite venue for product announcements.

Confirming the rumors, Apple will make a “major” product announcement on Wednesday Jan. 27, reports John Paczkowski of All Things Digital website.

Paczkowski says “it’s going to be a big deal.”

Sources in a position to know tell me Apple (AAPL) is indeed planning a media event later this month at which it will announce a major new product. The gathering is to be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, a space Apple often uses for media events like these. According to other sources, it will occur on Wednesday Jan. 27, not Tuesday Jan. 26, as had been rumored.

No definitive word on what that product is, but I think we all have a pretty good idea of what to expect.”

As previously noted, the Yerba Buena gardens has no events booked for Jan 25, 26 or 27. Holding a product announcement on a Wednesday is unusual for Apple. The company usually prefers Tuesdays for announcements.

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Leander Kahney

is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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  • CaryMG

    Here we goooooooooooooo !!!!!!!

    I’m gonna hit REFRESH on the Apple Store every 5 seconds
    during the SteveNote so I can grab one before they’re sold out.

  • Frederic

    Well, if it’s like the iPhone, you’ll have to refresh a LOOOOT of times … (every 5 seconds for 6 months …how many clicks ?)

  • http://www.toxicspark.com Andrew Macdonald

    Yep. Even if they do announce the product this month, it probably wont go on sale for a number of months, just like the iPhone did.

    They announced it, the world went wild for it as everybody wanted one, but they didnt go on sale for 6 months. I highly suspect Apple will repeat this strategy with the iSlate.

  • Chris12163

    Oh man I am looking foward this Apple Event, I know it’s gonna sell so I hope I can order till it sells out like the iPhone.

  • CaryMG

    But I have a strategy.
    I will send an email to Steve.
    It will be haertfelt & sincere.
    He will look at my email as free publicity: He’ll tell the meadia
    “Here’s a schmoe I’m gonna give an iSlate to early because he asked nicely!”

    Ma & Pa Middleamerica’ll eat it up with a spork.

  • Core

    This is what I gonna do-Wait on line for hours get one and sell it on ebay for double-That’s how I said I had a “iSlate” and made a profit too