I was curious about this and verified all the other national versions. Across all the versions displaying the iPad on their front page, the US version is the ONLY version I have found that doesn't scale the iPad automatically.

It dynamically enlarges, so the statement is always below the fold, no matter your screen size. That's why it aligns so nicely. To be fair, maybe they did they before too. But if they changed it just to hide this clear statement they've been ordered to make...

BTW: The statement text is verbatim what the court suggested in http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2012/1339.html (para 87)

The judgement says it's a final determination which I assume means it can't be appealed. But I don't get that impression from the statement, I guess because I'm not familiar with the appeals hierarchy of the EU. It seems the UK Court of Appeal superior to German courts.

When a court says something is "final" that means that it will not be revisited at that level. It does not mean you can't appeal. However, you can only appeal to the UK Supreme Court if you get permission from the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court, and I doubt this is the sort of thing where such permission will be forthcoming.

The EU is not one country and does not have a unified judicial system like in the U.S. The decisions of the Court of Appeals of England and Wales (not the UK) have little precedential value in Germany and vice versa.

As noted below, the iPad resizes so it's always off the screen...

Thank you for the illustration, it makes it pretty obvious.

Hitting fullscreen in firefox is hilarious, watch the IPad grow to cover it up. :-)

Another difference. Before the statement link was only on the UK site.

They even added a new Javascript file for that. Responsive webdesign, right?!

http://images.apple.com/v/home/n/scripts/hero_resize.js

The file was modified Oct 21st, which was right before the iPad Mini was announced. As has already been pointed out it's on every other international site too.