Apple 09/09/09: Steve Jobs Returns? New iPods? Apple Tablet?

Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) is taking full advantage of a calendrical coincidence to unleash a cadre of new gear on the Apple-hungry masses.

And while Apple is expected to hit the ground running at its Sept. 9, 2009 — 09/09/09 — event in Yorba Buena, Calif., the rumor mill isn’t so much focused on the products Apple may or may not release but more on who will take the stage to pull the curtain off them. Basically, the big question is: Will Steve Jobs make his first stage appearance on Sept. 9 since returning from sick leave?

Piper Jaffray senior research analyst and Apple watcher Gene Munster speculated that Jobs will take the stage at the event. Jobs’ return to the stage, Munster wrote in a research note, will overshadow any products Apple plans to reveal.

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