IOS6 breaks iPhone User Guide

After upgrading my iPhone 4S to iOS6, the Safari bookmark for the iPhone User Guide produces a "404 Not Found. The requested URL /apps/mobile/2.0/ was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.3 (PU_IAS) Server at help.apple.com Port 80" page.
Note that the URL (http://help.apple.com/iphone/6/) works when entered into the Safari browser on a Mac.
This problem was also reported at
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19708486#19708486
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19703102#19703102
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4332102
Since the first thing a users might do after installing a new iOS is look at the User Guide on their phone, this makes for a bad first impression. Is this a problem with the phone or with the web server? What is the fix?

At this writing (9/25-8am), this link - http://help.apple.com/iphone/6/ - is still a dead link. I have been able to get an iPhone 5 / iOS 6 User Manual, but cannot find a manual for the 3gs with iOS 6. Apple seems to have removed all the manuals (except iPhone 5 manuals) from their servers. The only available manuals that I can locate are in PDF format, which are useless for practical iPhone usage - you need to have "real-time" access to your manual. Apple should really put back in place the "User Guide" just as it was before the iOS 6 upgrade. Removing the User Guide from the servers is comparable to trashing a paper manual that comes standard with any item...

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