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Why the iPad’s user agent string presents a problem

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Note: This post has been getting a fair amount of traffic. I originally posted this directly after launch, and subsequently it contained outdated information from what is now known from the final release of OS 3.2. I originally had left the original post info for the sake of blogging/ journalistic integrity, however after three revisions because of newer info, I decided to strip the clutter of invalid content. Having said my disclaimer, below is the revised new post, and here is the release version of the iPad UA string as of 4/6/10, pulled directly from my 32GB wifi model:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B367 Safari/531.21.10

more after the break.