Apple iPad3 dock connector images leaked?

As reported at the tech blogs Tapscape and The APPera, the Taiwan website Apple.pro -- notoriously known for circulating leaked images of Apple devices ahead of formal release dates -- has done it again. This time, images reportedly leaked from Apple's internal inventory reveal a white dock connector with a 90-degree tail end for an iPad-like device -- speculated to be the iPad3, owing to the fervid amount of attention being paid to that device's anticipated release. No telling, however, whether the pictured connector might not actually be for the rumored iPad HD or even, it has been suggested, the quasi-mythical iPadPro tablets.

It's not the first time the rumor mill has swirled over these small, but not insignificant, parts of these no-doubt-soon-to-be-everywhere tablet devices. That it swirls at all may tell us something about how pervasive the footprint of this technology might very soon be.