Associated Press must have Steve Jobs' phone bugged

How else could they have come up with this insightful and super-newsy headline?

Hmm, "expected" -- not a strong verb. How about "we'd bet our pants on it?"

In fairness to Rachel Konrad, who undoubtedly did not write the headline, the article itself is pretty well done; it discusses the metameme of Apple product introductions in the iPod age, which can have cellphone company execs quivering in anxiety even before we know the iPhone's real name. We all can remember when Apple wasn't considered a serious technology company, and the Macintosh was derided as a 'toy computer.' Times have changed: this week there are tech reporters having to make a tough choice between covering Macworld, where the big news is coming from, and everything else.