The Dumbest Apple Rumor of the YearS   Ladies and gentlemen,
meet your worst Apple rumor of the year, and maybe of all time.
You may have seen the headlines already, here and here and
probably most other tech sites you follow. The basic gist:
There is, as you might have noticed the last time you attained
even the vaguest state of consciousness, no such thing as an
Apple HDTV. There never has been. That headline is like saying
Charles Barkley might put up a triple double in the Space Jam
rematch. So how did a product that doesn't—and may well
never—exist suddenly get features that, if it's even possible,
exist even less?  Because this morning, the two worst rumor
sources in tech found each other. Analysts met patents, and
created a perfect storm of bullshit.  This morning, before the
market opened, two Morgan Stanley analysts released a report
about "iTV," Apple's bold foray into our living rooms. The
mythical television set would be worth $13 billion to Apple in
the US alone, $39 billion globally, and 68,0