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Executive leadership at Apple has arranged for a company-wide meeting—town hall style—in which the topic of discussion is expected to address the recent release of the iPad tablet ,?Ars has learned from multiple sources. The meeting, which will take place Thursday (January 28, 2010), echoes a similar internal meeting that took place a days before the launch of the iPhone in 2007. In that meeting, Steve Jobs explained to the company that he felt the device would change the mobile phone industry and took questions from employees. During that meeting, an employee asked a question?as prescient as ever after Wednesday’s announcement: Someone from the audience asked whether Apple was concerned about cannibalization of business from the iPod with the introduction of the iPhone, and Steve answered that if there’s going to be cannibalization of Apple, they want it to be by Apple.

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