Forgoing the Retina display also distinguishes clearly between the small and full-size iPad products. "Retina displays are premium features; the new smaller iPad is not the premium model in the lineup," Gruber says. "You don't want to buy one because it doesn't have a retina display? OK, buy the regular iPad (3) that does."

To you, may look like just a confusion of numbers and letters, but to the discerning eyes at AppleInsider, with help from a "person familiar with the inventory," this is gold, baby, gold.

What this actually depicts is the "full list of presumed 'iPad mini' product stock-keeping units, or SKUs, shows a total of 24 varieties," . "Four different models will be offered -- described as P101, P103, P105 and P107 -- which one person familiar with the inventory said likely signifies four different storage capacities."

And from this deduction, or assumption, one can deduce still more. "The lineup could suggest that Apple plans to introduce an 8-gigabyte model that would serve as an entry-level model for the lower-priced 7.85-inch iPad," writes Hughes.