Apple today announced it will host a news conference Oct. 16 on its Cupertino, Calif. campus, where analysts expect it to unveil new iPad tablets.

The invitations, which went out to media and analysts, were Apple-cryptic, with the tag line of only, “It’s been way too long.”

Apple’s invites are as dissected as were photographs of the reviewing stand at May Day parades through Moscow’s Red Square during the Cold War, when Kremlinologists would parse rising Party stars from those destined for Soviet purges.

For example, last month’s invitations to the iPhone event simply said, “Wish we could say more,” a line that most interpreted to mean there would be other announcements besides new iPhones, in particular a wearable — which came to pass — or even larger tablets, which did not.

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