correcting incorrect apple stories is almost as futile as trying to destroying every single copy of the "Star Wars Holiday Special"
paypal aka bill me later aka Paypal credit, its all the same thing and you could always use it as an option to buy apple hardware. apple hid this in the "financing" tab.
all apple did was to take this payment option and move it from "financing" to the other tabs to make it more prominent, and give it more options. but this option was always available to you
the restriction with Paypal and the apple store is that they required you to have all apple hardware shipped to you, you couldn't use this option as far as i know to place orders for in store pickup the purchase required me to have the mac mini shipped
at least with special financing - i had to have the mac mini shipped
the major change is now you can buy something at
http://www.apple.com and use paypal and pick it up at the apple store. with the old way you went to apple.com and used paypal and had to have the item shipped
i went to the apple store back in October 28th and i purchased my third mac mini for Paypal credit no interest no payments for 6 months by going to
http://www.apple.com and going to "financing" and clicking on paypal