Funnily enough though, there's still hyperlinks taking you to the VFNZ website from Apple's website, so there's clearly still a partnership happening.

I'd say pre-registration has been removed along with other stuff due to there being no point in it being there in its current form with a launch iminent.

Also, of course, there's the possibility that all of this is simply a figment of your imagination and you will wake up tomorrow and the world will exist outside of the rarified Appleness air and life will go on...


Also noticed a reference to Vodafone 360 on the Microsim page on VF's website...very interesting.