New York Post Blocks Website Access For iPad; Forces Users To Buy iPad App

Looks like the NYPost is just sniffing the user agent. You can circumvent this with something like Mercury browser[1] by changing the user agent.

[1] http://itunes.apple.com/app/mercury-web-browser-pro-the/id34...

Wait, wasn't the iPad supposed to provide the best web browsing experience available? How is shoving a custom app for every news site down my throat fulfilling that promise?