I agree that people have jumped to a largely unwarranted conclusion.
The only real ray of hope I HAD seen (pls note use of past tense) wasn't on any Apple site, but rather on the Kingston site, where the 1333Mhz memory for the new MP's--which I ordered--was listed as being "Available approx. August 9." earlier this week.
Unfortunately, I just looked at it again and that availability date has now changed to approximately August 11.
Of course we can't draw any real conclusions from that either, but if it means anything, it doesn't mean anything good.
TD
It turns out my kingston memory has shipped and will be delivered by UPS on Aug 9.