No, Apple did not plan for iPad 3 release in 2011.

We received a note from our friend in Cupertino:

“I laugh every time I read the rumor about iPad 3 to be released in Fall 2011. The fact is that Steve Jobs made it clear that iPad 2 would be the iPad for 2011. Someone definitely had been eating up the false information. There will be a new iPad in 2012, that’s for certain.”

Take it with a grain or a boulder of salt.

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