New web tool tracks Retina iPad Mini availability in US Apple Stores

[RaduTyrsina]

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More than a week ago, we shared with you a web tool that you could use to track the iPad Air availability at local Apple Stores. But since then, the iPad Air tracker created by Mordy Tikotzky has been pulled down by Apple, as the Cupertino company said the tracking website used “page-scrape†tools to “access, acquire, copy or monitor†data from Apple’s website.

A new web-based tracking tool has been built by the team behind Seaturtle.org. The web tool offers a snapshot of Retina iPad mini availability for a number of Apple Stores across the US. The tracking tool is part of Seaturtle.org's iDevice Availability Notifier, which is a separate section on the website which is dedicated to the conservation of sea turtles.

Seaturtle.org said the following:

Availability of new iPad minis at US Apple Stores based on our latest checks. The number in each grid cell is minutes since that iPad mini/Apple Store combination was last checked. You can click on the cell contents to check current status. Green means it was available at the last check, red means it was not. White means we have not checked that combination (i.e. no one has requested a check of that combination).

The site also explains why a sea turtle-centric web entity has such a tracker:

Because we are Apple fanboys and we want to know when our favorite iPhone model will be available! Also, SEATURTLE.ORG runs on Apple products. From the Xserve that powers this website, to the iMac where most of the programming happens, and the iDevices that allow us to keep tabs on the sea turtle world from where ever we are.

Have you placed an order to get the iPad Mini 2?

Source: AppleInsider, SeaTurtle