Apple employees may already be using iPad 3s running iOS 6 to surf the web internally

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This is an interesting tidbit about the new iPad. The folks over at Ars Technica have noticed that an ‘iPad’ device running software identified as ‘iOS 6? is showing up in their server logs. This device, while unidentified beyond the fact that it is an ‘iPad’, seems likely to be an iPad 3.

The first clue was a ‘few hundred hits’ from a device that was being reported in their monthly browser logging as having a screen resolution of 2048×1536, the rumored resolution of the new iPad’s Retina display. But there are some medical displays that report that resolution, so they dug a bit further and found more clues.

Jacqui Cheng lays out the evidence discovered by polling the server logs further:

…we began looking at iPad user agents coming from Apple’s corporate IP block in Cupertino and discovered that Apple appears to surfing the Web using iPads running what looks like iOS 6.0. The whole listing shows iPads running iOS 5, iOS 5.0.1 (the current public release), iOS 5.1 (the upcoming release currently available to developers), and iOS 6. The iPads that appear to be running iOS 6 are also using a slightly newer build of WebKit—the older OSes all show WebKit 534.46, while the ones claiming to be iOS 6 show WebKit build 535.8.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/03/02/apple-employees-may-already-be-using-ipads-running-ios-6-to-surf-the-web-internally