With WWDC only recently ended and Apple's next event presumably months off, the Apple rumor cycle has hit the trough in its perpetually wavelike motion. Microsoft's Surface tablet pre-nouncement dominated tech headlines all week and Google's I/O conference starts tomorrow, so there was barely enough room to shovel in the usual B.S. about the next iPhone or an Apple-branded HDTV. But that doesn't mean some people didn't try.
