This Week in Apple: Feeding the rumor monster

Mark Gurman makes the news, the iPhone Duo is still in trouble, and Apple faces a big payout.

Finally, a white guy podcasting about Apple

Unlike some sites, I’m just gonna tell you all the things that Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman wrote this week in one section instead of spreading it over five or six articles, several podcast episodes, and an interpretive dance.

Gabby Gurman has the beans and he’s spilling them everywhere. Then pouring the tea on top of them. It’s a whole thing.

The biggest dirt he’s dishing is that Apple will hold its fall iPad, HomePod, and HomePad event on October 13th. The likelihood of that being the date is something even John Gruber agrees with Gurman on, despite their bitter blood feud that was sparked, not over the veracity of Gurman’s Apple rumors, but the ownership of a mule named Paco.

True story.

Paco has been sent to a mule sanctuary where he is reportedly happy to be free of all the drama.…