"The remedy for getting the Jobs news out of the tech headlines, then, is to put out the iPhone 5 news quickly thereafter so that attention shifts as quickly as possible," Palmer theorizes. "Jobs and his PR team likely decided to hold this news until the iPhone 5 was just about ready to be announced, so as to deliver the two in a one-two counter punch which would cancel out the former with the latter. The fact that the news was pushed out mid-week means that Apple is looking for this news cycle to have fully dissipated by the end of the weekend, with no Monday carryover. That in turn suggests that by Monday, Apple will be looking to turn attention elsewhere."

He apparently has convinced himself by this "reasoning" that Apple will send out press invites to the fall iPhone 5 announcement next Monday.

More purported iPhone 5 parts reveal there are indeed iPhone 5 parts.

by an iPhone parts supplier, TVC Mall, which posted a "few new claimed iPhone 5 parts" including the battery, back camera lens and, most of all, the "headphone/earphone audio jack flex cable."

"The new parts are definitely different from the existing iPhone 4 parts," Kim writes. And . Yet Kim doesn't seem to fully appreciate the nature of iPhone 5 rumors: "the superficial changes seem unrevealing."