The ever-reliable Internet rumor mill was rife with excitement: What exciting newness would Apple unveil to commemorate of its retail stores? As it turns out, the answer was: iPads. Not a new model of iPad for you to take home and caress, but rather . The iPads offer product information, pricing, and other such details, and even let you page an Apple Store rep to come help you. Sadly, their Home buttons are blocked, so you can't use them to play Super Stickman Golf. The Apple Store now offers for major Apple hardware purchases, too. And lest the iPhone Apple Store app get jealous, it also . Frankly, though, I'm not interested until it gets multiplayer.

If you missed our story on regarding threatening legal letters the latter company had sent to iOS developers, then you should probably check our homepage more often. We also published of the letter from Apple Legal.

, but it's hard to browse it from a Kindle. Our own Dan Frakes about the store experience.