The day after today...

Tomorrow Apple and Motorola are hosting a special event to release the iTunes phone (and possibly new, flash-based iPod Minis).

It's possible that Apple cancelled the Keynote to avoid taking attention away from tomorrow's announcement. They want to keep the focus on the exciting new iPod products, rather than on their less-than-blazingly-fast portable lineup.

(Of course, I myself think the iBooks and Powerbooks are preferable to any other laptop, but the press will correctly view continued use of the G4 processor as a weakness.)

Maybe tomorrow's announcement will shed more light on the cancellation of the Paris Keynote, and the status of the Powerbook 7448 update.

My question is: if a flash-based iPod Mini is introduced, will the laptop+free iPod deal apply to it? That would be amazing! But the very existence of the rebate makes me doubt that the new Mini will be announced tomorrow--I thought the end of the rebate (ending Sept 24) would coincide with the availability of the Mini. I suppose they could still do it that way.