Apple Store down?

[meghop]

Is the apple store down? I get that sticky note webpage... :eek:

[sworthy]

hmm... what do you think it is?

[Kwyjibo]

probably cleaning something up or adding scripts so if they relase soemthing later this week it will be a simple tie in. Heres hoping.

[vniow]

Confirmed.

Could just be regular maitenence though, a couple icons at the top aren't loading.

[MrMacMan]

I get the same, same images fail to load too, suppose tech problem or upgrades.

I don't expect them to realease a product during the night time to yah? :o

[HasanDaddy]

don't know?

[HasanDaddy]

well now that we know about the iPod, maybe they're just putting it out...?

[janey]

take a closer look at the row of buttons on top...apple's website hasn't had those buttons (and the blue apple logo) for a long time...

[Kwyjibo]

ooops edit post

I think soem ppl are so anxious for hardare upgrades they want it to be hardware discussion.

[mania]

Say if you try and load one of those broken images it says its trying to connect to update10.apple.com - kinda strange.

[jaguarx]

Worth noting *all* the apple stores are down, just just the US.

[maradong]

strange, perhaps a big release or something like that?

[maradong]

who knows, the us store is always the first to announce a new gadget...

[GiantXX5]

Hmmm, gettin close to an hour. And it says the store should be back within the hour. So I hope we find out soon. Updates would be nice, although I can afford nothing in my current finaicial state.

[vniow]

Originally posted by GiantXX5
Hmmm, gettin close to an hour. And it says the store should be back within the hour.


I think they say that everytime though, it looks like just the page that they put up when they're working on that part of the site.

[vniow]

http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore/

http://store.apple.com/133-622/WebObjects/australiastore/

http://store.apple.com/0120-APPLE-1/WebObjects/japanstore/

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by vniow
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore/

http://store.apple.com/133-622/WebObjects/australiastore/

http://store.apple.com/0120-APPLE-1/WebObjects/japanstore/

Definitely looks like something is up. I guess I won't know what it is until morning though as it's time for me to go to bed. Apple should market there own brand of sleeping pills or alcohol or something to aid in sleeping around the time of new announcements.:)

[MacBandit]

This is probably just a coincidence and it's on such minor things but there was a promotion date at Apple that coincided with 04/13/2003 which is today.

http://www.apple.com/promo/dotmac/

I'm not reaching here just pointing out an odd coincidence.

[Rower_CPU]

Over 2 hours now...could be something big...or not. ;)

[vniow]

Its back!

Nothing new that I can see.http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=252654

[HasanDaddy]

doesn't look like there's anything new

[Ensign Paris]

Hey,

Was the Government tag (in the top bar) there before? I don't remember it, but I very rarely visit the US Store, being myself in the UK.

Hope everyones well!
Ensign

[alset]

Originally posted by Ensign Paris
Hey,

Was the Government tag (in the top bar) there before? I don't remember it, but I very rarely visit the US Store, being myself in the UK.

Hope everyones well!
Ensign

Yup, it was already there.

Dan

[Ensign Paris]

Dang, my first post in ages and I appear to have ruined my reputation :) Oh well, thats life! Better move on!

I haven't noticed any other changes, maybe if they want to implement a new music section, they will have to modify the software running the store, to accept this kind of downloadable material.

Ensign

[tazo]

apple is no longer down

[janey]

Originally posted by tazo
apple is no longer down
i think it went back up at 1am PST.
btw it wasn't apple, it was the apple store (http://store.apple.com)

[tazo]

Originally posted by übergeek
i think it went back up at 1am PST.
btw it wasn't apple, it was the apple store (http://store.apple.com)

I know that, :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
actually I thought that the entire company crashed last night :(

[RBMaraman]

I don't understand why everyone got so excited.

I thought everyone knew Saturday night/Sunday morning is downtime for the Apple Store's weekly maintenance.

Now, if it's down on a Monday night/Tuesday morning, then we have a reason to be excited.

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by RBMaraman
I don't understand why everyone got so excited.

I thought everyone knew Saturday night/Sunday morning is downtime for the Apple Store's weekly maintenance.

Now, if it's down on a Monday night/Tuesday morning, then we have a reason to be excited.

I don't think it goes down weekly.

[janey]

Originally posted by MacBandit
I don't think it goes down weekly.
i think it just went down for like one minute or so just right now.
i wonder when they do maintenance.

[MacFan25]

Originally posted by übergeek
i think it just went down for like one minute or so just right now.
i wonder when they do maintenance. i don't know. it seems that every time that i have gone there, the site was up. except for one tuesday morning a few months ago when apple introduced something new.

[edit] BTW, does anyone know how long the online apple store keeps the little green new labels on there new products?

[janey]

Originally posted by MacFan25
[edit] BTW, does anyone know how long the online apple store keeps the little green new labels on there new products?
a LONG time. i've seen the button thing for like a million years for the 20gb iPod.

[RBMaraman]

Originally posted by MacBandit
I don't think it goes down weekly.

Actually, it does. It's part of their weekly server maintenance. I'd hate to think how bad things would be if they only performed maintenance once a month.

[MontanaMacster]

.mac thats is where the change took place, the old members offers expired and are replaced with new ones.

[mymemory]

Oh my God, I almost had a heart attack:confused: :rolleyes: :D