Part two of my series of things Apple won’t do comes to us from Appleinsider. They claim that Apple is set to release the new retina-sporting iPad 3 coming in March. So far so good. Unfortunately, the article did not stop here, but instead suggested that in October Apple would release an “iPad 4” with “killer apps”.
Last year there were similar rumors from sites like Digitimes that indicated Apple would release a second iPad in 2011 in the fall season as well. The only logical explanation is that what is really being talked about is iOS 6, which certainly could bring some new “killer apps” to the iPad 3 in the October time frame.
Long story short: Apple will not release two new iPads in a given year - especially “to counter a rumored Google-branded tablet as well as touchscreen devices running Windows 8”.
Update: Gruber agrees
