BGR: Apple bans vacations for Feb 3-6

By Adriana Lee January 7, 2011 2:55 pm EST Comments

Following a recent story about Apple prohibiting retail employee vacations for three weeks later this month, BGR reports that an employee vacation ban is in effect for four specific days â€” Thursday, February 3, through Sunday, February 6.

Citing a “source close to Apple,” the blog indicates this directive willÂ cover several company locations across the U.S. It also notes that, CupertinoÂ chose June 24 to 27 (another Thursdayâ€“Sunday timeframe) and that Verizon Wireless generally sticks with Thursdays for new device debuts.

Now Apple usually goes with a June/July iPhone announcement/launch date, this is true, but this new report doesn’t necessarily contradict that. A CDMA iPhone 4 (or some sort of worldmode CDMA/GSM iPhone) could arrive in addition to whatever the company has planned for the summer (iPhone 5, anyone?). Throw the outside possibility of a 4G/LTE handset into the mix, and Apple could have a whole lot of announcements this year â€” whether during or on top of its typical June keynote. And we haven’t even touched on the topic of the iPad 2 yet.

BGR states, “…no other Apple products have been rumored to be launching in this time frame,” but that’s a bit misleading.Â The next-gen tablet is still a potential explanation for the February vacation ban. After all, Apple first announced the iPad1 last year in late January (though admittedly, it actually launched two months later),Â so it falls somewhat within this timeframe. And BGR’s source hasn’t confirmed which device will be on deck come February 3.

Care to guess which gadget is coming our way? Will it be a Verizon iPhone, the iPad2 or possibly even some other, non-iOS product? Some readers are already guessing that this could be for the new MacBook Air. What do you think?

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Tim

I heard Apple is announcing a video game system to complete with Microsoft's XBOX. Ok, I made that up.

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john martinez

Wall Street Journal just published Verizon's upcoming announcement at the Lincoln Center. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704739504576068170230339348.html?mod=djemalertTECH

musicgeneration1

I think it is either the iPad 2 or a sneek peak at iOS 5; maybe even both.

Ryan

Out of curiosity what would lead you to believe that this verizon event would have anything to do with releasing a new product such as the iPad deuce or sneakpeek a new iOS. Apple would not have vzw announce anything like that for them. This will most likely be an unveil of a non lte verizon iPhone 4 which is not considered a new product thus not requiring Steve jobs in attendance. Although he may be

AJG

Actually Apple won't let anybody announce their new products... BUT the iPhone 4 is not a new product, it's the complete opposite it's an old already announced device. Apple does not care when carriers announce that they are getting the iPhone in Europe or anywhere else, they usually let the carriers do all the work unless they are announcing a new product then Apple won't let anybody except themselves announce it. But sense the iPhone 4 has been already announced by Apple I'm almost positive they won't care if Verizon announces it. I'm predicting that Verizon will announce the iPhone on Tuesday 1/11/11 and Steve will probably be there, the reason to that is because 1. Apple currently hates Gizmodo, Verizon loves Gizmodo yet they both did not invite Gizmodo because it's probably and Apple announcement. 2. Apple LOVES to announce new products on Tuesdays so does Verizon(Verizon also loves Thursdays). 3. This has been rumored way too long, and I'm pretty sure Apple and Verizon have something in the works for us an iPhone 4 is almost imminent for Verizon, hopefully this'll all end Tuesday.

Tom F

I understand that Verizon is sending out invites to a Jan 11th event. Could it be that the Verizon iPhone will be announced 1/11 and first orders can be placed 2/3????