Not to my understanding but I won't argue with it. When I posted the Emirates deal today, did a new thread really have to be created? No it was posted in that thread. I used to open lots of new threads back in the day, and have put a major halt to it. If the thread topic is different, than by all means a new thread should be created. Otherwise it's just clogging up the forums.
In the case here, it's a master thread for iPad deals, and yes whichever way you look at it, this is an iPad deal.