Remember Apple Tracker, the web app that checked Apple’s inventory in order to help you find new iPhones and iPads in your area? Apple killed it off ahead of the iPad mini Retina launch , but now it’s back… just not on the original site.
Here’s the deal. A week-and-a-half ago, Apple sent a DMCA takedown notice to Apple Tracker creator Mordy Tikotzky, saying that the site violated Apple.com’s TOS, specifically this provision:
Your Use of the Site. You may not use any “deep-link”, “page-scrape”, “robot”, “spider” or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site. Apple reserves the right to bar any such activity.
Tikotzky said he wasn’t going to fight it, but he apparently released his web code into the wild for anyone to use if they wanted to, and it’s now been mirrored at another site.. this time expanded to see inventories for the iPad mini with Retina Display.
This is still the best tool out there to find that elusive iPad mini or gold iPhone 5s nearby. Let’s hope the mirrored version of Apple Tracker stays up longer than the original.
Source: Apple-Tracker
