OF COURSE THEY ARE DOING THIS!
1. Apple leak features, one reason why they are 4 years behind.
2. This is to suck the money out of people, they buy the first one, then because the second one has minimal bezel they buy that, then the third has retina so they buy that, 4th has a quad core and then, they turned what SHOULD have only been 600$ (australia price), into $2400.
3. Yeah, Apple always use this minimal bezel, but I don't think they know what it is, have a look at phones with on screen nav bar, THAT is minimal bezel.