Just hours after Tim Cook and the Apple braintrust undraped the iPhone 4S, simultaneously exposure innumerous iPhone 5 rumors, the Apple-centric media ordered a newborn course.

A. Criticize the consort for not validating the rumors.

B. Validate the criticisms by claiming the have mart had spoken, and uttered negatively, most the demand of a redesigned iPhone 5.

But does the modify in Apple's have toll rattling inform an opinion?

If you countenance at the one-day proportionality modify in Apple's have toll for every iPhone announcement, the modify attributed to the demand of an iPhone 5 was actually the ordinal minimal modify ever. In fact, divagation from the prototypal iPhone announcement, the have toll ever drops:

Model (Announcement date): One-day proportionality modify in have price

iPhone (Jan. 9, 2007): +8.31% iPhone 3G (June 9, 2008): -2.17% iPhone 3GS (June 8, 2009): -0.57% iPhone 4 (June 7, 2010): -1.96% Verizon iPhone 4 (Jan. 11 2011): -0.24% iPhone 4S (Oct. 4, 2011): -0.56%

But then again, the Apple fandom staleness be fed. And a journalistic actuality these life is effort "Apple" in a head is a utter magnet...

Ahem.