This program is only for customers who have bought the phone via Google Play. It doesn't include orders placed via distribution (as far as I can tell).
I love the fact that in the release notes page, they used a <blink> tag around the message "Dropped blink effect from text-decoration: blink; and completely removed <blink> element".
Opera is a huge hit in asia. And this is where Apple and Google struggle the most to get market share. That would make a lot of sense for either of them to try to acquire Opera.
The US site has the iPad 4 featured on the homepage. All the other sites have the iPad mini featured. I'm pretty sure that once the other countries switch to the iPad 4 feature, the script will disappear as well.