Pocket-Lint: Last year, before the UK release of the original iPad (which was delayed by a month), Apple opened up pre-orders around three weeks before the 28 May launch date.
We even received our iPad a day earlier than it officially went on sale after pre-ordering, and posted some cracking pictures to prove it.
The flaw affects iPhones 5 and 6, and iPad 2, running iOS 8.2 and later.
Charles Arthur: "It’s time to stop the snobbishness about how superior a ‘proper computer’ is."
In October, Microsoft did something it's never done before, it generated more revenue selling its Surface line of PC/tablet hybrids to online consumers than Apple made selling iPads, according to data from 1010data.