What just happened? After months of user complaints, Apple's generous iPad rebate program for T-Mobile and Verizon customers seems to have disappeared. So far there hasn't been whatever give-and-take from any of the iii companies about discontinuing it.

Last April, Apple started offering T-Mobile and Verizon customers hundreds of dollars off new iPad and iPhone models through rebate programs. Bloomberg'due south Mark Gurman has followed the plan ever since, including the bug he and others started experiencing in the autumn and wintertime.

Gurman in November reported that T-Mobile ignored his iPhone rebate asking for months before finally rejecting it. Other users responded to him on Twitter with like complaints about iPad rebates, and rebates from Verizon. T-Mobile the following calendar month told Gurman the issues stemmed from a problems in its systems that it was working to prepare.

This week, withal, MacRumors reports all mention of the special iPad carrier deals take vanished from Apple's website. Special deals on iPhones for Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T customers are still at that place, though. It'southward the aforementioned story on T-Mobile'due south website which lists a few iPhone deals. Clicking "Tablets/Watches" brings you direct to a listing for the Apple Lookout with no mention of iPads.

Apple tree, T-Mobile, and Verizon haven't said whether the iPad rebate program is being fixed or if they've merely dropped information technology.