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Um, since when do you have to lock your cell phone in a safe, sign an NDA, and get password-protected training files from Apple for a "fun-time party"?

Not even Apple is that paranoid.

Sounds like my kind of fun-time party.

How about a pure software product? There's been rumors of a cloud-music solution; or a relaunch of MobileMe.

You wouldn't expect to "receive hardware to install" for a software launch, other than a small number of posters, banners and other promotional paraphernalia.

It is just a rumor, but it's interesting that it seems to line up with stories that were floating around a couple weeks ago about Apple retail employees being told that they weren't going to be able to book vacation days in late May.

Usually those kinds of black-out dates have signalled product launches.