"Hey, buy some of the black iPads, will you?" - Such must be the thoughts of Tim Cook and company right now. Not that we didn't expect it, but it happened almost surprisingly fast - due to inability to meet to the extreme demand for its new iPad mini, Apple has already pushed back the shipping date for some of the models.
If you try to pre-order a white iPad mini now, you'll find out that the device is no longer expected to ship on November 2, but in the somewhat more indefinite "two weeks." The reasons we can think of are two: either Apple has had an insufficient initial stock of white iPad minis, or people are just loving the white variant much more than the black one. Speaking of the black iPad mini, the good news is that the pre-ordered units are still set for a November 2 shipping, but if you like the black one and plan to purchase it, we'd recommend that you don't take too long before placing the pre-order, as we won't be surprised if its shipping date gets pushed back as well.
Thankfully, there isn't a change in the expected delivery date of the 'Wi-Fi + cellular' iPad minis, which is still "mid-November".
source: Apple
Jailbreaking your phone is now finally officially legal in the United States, but if you are trying to treat your tablet to the same level of freedom you’d be in violation of the law. What sounds like an absurd decision comes straight from the US Copyright Office, saying that jailbreaking a phone doesn’t break copyright law, but this does not apply to other devices.
Why are tablets so weirdly not included? It seems that tablets are simply too hard to define and an exemption could have been used for e-readers and mobile gaming consoles. The decision comes in a triennial review of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
But what’s even more baffling, is the fact that unlocking your phone to work with any carrier - while still legal - is now much more limited. You’d be able to unlock your phone freely by January 2013. What happens next? Starting in 2013, you’d need permission from your carrier to unlock your phone to have it work on other carriers.
Outside mobile, the Copyright Office decided that making personal backups of DVDs is still illegal, and modding game consoles is a breach of the law as well.
What are your thoughts about those rulings?
source: US Copyright Office via TheVerge
