Speaking of hiding things, the truth is buried in the middle of this article:
"The Javascript code in question ... ensured that the iPad mini advertisement would take up the whole page, regardless of your resolution... The code’s main purpose wasn’t ... to hide the apology -- Apple has been pushing a more vertically-responsive design on its international sites for a while now."
The home page was doing this before the statement, and doing it after (until now), across all International sites, not just the UK where the notice was required. But truth tends to drive fewer page views than manufactured buzz.
"The Javascript code in question ... ensured that the iPad mini advertisement would take up the whole page, regardless of your resolution... The code’s main purpose wasn’t ... to hide the apology -- Apple has been pushing a more vertically-responsive design on its international sites for a while now."
The home page was doing this before the statement, and doing it after (until now), across all International sites, not just the UK where the notice was required. But truth tends to drive fewer page views than manufactured buzz.