14 DAY TRIAL // Apple Tracker used to be a great destination for customers looking to know when and where they’d be able to find, say, a Gold iPhone 5s. “Used” to be, because the service is no longer live, as of today.
And it’s dead at the hand of Apple itself, according to the creator, who is “not really interested in picking a fight with Apple,” as he put it. The Cupertino computer giant reportedly told the guy that he could not use any automatic programs (such as deep-link, page-scrape, spider, that kind of stuff) “to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any Content.”
It seems unlikely that Apple was having trouble coping with the extra traffic generated by Apple Tracker, so maybe it has something to do with the copying thing.
Apple also said the company didn’t allow people to “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.”