Apple Store Down!!! Will it or won't it :?

[mdtsuk]

Will Apple make it 4 weeks running???

:apple:Tuesday: Week 1:
www.apple.com/store goes offline about 11am GMT.
Out pops a Pink Nano.

:apple:Tuesday: Week 2:
www.apple.com/store goes offline about 11am GMT.
Out pops a 32GB Touch and 16GB iPhone.

:apple:Tuesday: Week 3:
www.apple.com/store goes offline about 11am GMT.
Out pops Aperture 2.

:apple:Tuesday: Week 4 (Today):
Will it go down??? in 20 mins???
Will it be the MBP / 3G iPhone / iPhone SDK???


ANSWER: IT WILL :)

[fireghost]

Probably just a freckin' software update or a pink iPod Classic... just some reason to take the store down for an hour to spice up the speculations :s

[pezza]

still up at 10.54 GMT....

[Kobekes]

aha! this is a "The Apple store is open-tread" ;-)

[teleromeo]

won't happen today.
What happened to the rumoured event that was going to happen next week ?

[netdog]

Nice choice of forums for this one! :D

[xUKHCx]

Answer: Will it

US Down at the moment.

[dalvin200]

hell yeah..

[Markleshark]

iPod Shuffle Price Drops. ;)

Amazing though, 4 weeks in a row.

[dalvin200]

iPod Shuffle Price Drops. ;)

Amazing though, 4 weeks in a row.

connect 4? ;)

[aswitcher]

It better be more than shuffles...

[Markleshark]

It better be more than shuffles...

I so hope its not. :D

[mdtsuk]

iPod Shuffle Price Drops. ;)

Amazing though, 4 weeks in a row.



Shuffles were updated earlier:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=4994322#post4994322

Could be more???

[Kasper Winding]

Am I right or is it just my browser?:)

[elberggreno]

Swedish store still up..

[Neil321]

Am I right or is it just my browser?:)

UK still up

[michaelsviews]

Every Tuesday the US store is down for maintenance , we just went through this last week.

The New MBPS are going to be released on the 3rd Tuesday of this week or in March :D

[Yves Creebs]

we have an Apple Store down... i repeat.. we have an Apple Store down....

[Kasper Winding]

Redesigned, multitouch, super graphic card, please please New Macbook Pro:D

[thefunkymunky]

Every Tuesday the US store is down for maintenance , we just went through this last week.

The US Store does not go down every Tuesday for maintenance. It only goes down this time on a Tuesday for a product update/release.

[fireghost]

German/Dutch store still up as well.. maybe it's an US only thing- some new ad for movie rentals? Or 'get your new Apple TV Firmware!'. What about a nice BBC Worldwide Banner? I don't expect anything big...

[mdtsuk]

Every Tuesday the US store is down for maintenance , we just went through this last week...

Why would their website need to be taken down for maintenance? For a spring clean, a service, check spellings...

Not to my knowledge, it only needs to go down for updates.

To my knowledge even that is not necessary, just a switch over... But that would not get everyone talking like this ;). This is the :apple: way.

[IEatApples]

Please let it be the MBP this time!!! :)

[tsincaat]

Macbook Pro Macbook Pro Macbook Pro Pleeaaase apple!

[design-is]

As ever, the US & Canada store usually go down hours before international stores. US for the main update - Canada because its on the same server. International stores updated afterwards.

At least thats the general idea...

[Sesshi]

It never ceases to amaze me that Apple's marketing BS (after all, they can update the third-party item prices on the Store on the fly, why not Apple items?) causes so many to behave like so many dogs with a Pavlovian response.

OMG THE STORE IS DOWN!!!
*droooooool F5 F5 F5 F5 F5*

[MrT8064]

hmmm pretty exciting this, 4 weeks in a row, is that a record?

MBPs would be nice, aside from updates, its a price drop i'm interested in!

[MrT8064]

OMG THE STORE IS DOWN!!!
*droooooool F5 F5 F5 F5 F5*

exactly WHAT OS are you using?

i think you are thinking of CMD R

[takao]

austrian store also still up ... any international down ? perhaps from asia etc. ?

[Sesshi]

I'm sorry of course.. the true Apple faithful cripple themselves with Safari.
What was I thinking? Cmd R of course - but it doesn't make as much impact in that sentence ;)

[dsnort]

... causes so many to behave like so many dogs with a Pavlovian response.

OMG THE STORE IS DOWN!!!
*droooooool F5 F5 F5 F5 F5*

An apt description. Right now it's all excitement and drooling.

Later, tucked tails, whimpering, with some snarling and snapping mixed in.:rolleyes:

[bobbleheadbob]

New cinema displays? :confused:

[netdog]

Snappier new Safari. Free with all new Macs. $20 upgrade for existing customers.

[Morod]

I'm hoping for the new MBP announcement as well, and I'm not even looking to buy one. It just seems to be the most popular "most wanted Apple news" on all the forums. Here's hoping it comes true today!
Morod

[Sesshi]

An apt description. Right now it's all excitement and drooling.

Later, tucked tails, whimpering, with some snarling and snapping mixed in.:rolleyes:

They really do have the majority of their enthusiast clientele figured out. I'm always impressed by the marketing, if not by the products.

[G.I. Joe]

Time Machine will become available. That's it.

[G.I. Joe]

Time Machine will become available. That's it.

[MrT8064]

so how much longer will the store be down, 5mins, 25mins?

in other words, can i go and make a cuppa' or will i miss all the fun?

[davidec]

The store will be down every Tuesday for this year according to Jobs.
My guess is 'Time Capsule' today.
No chance of an updated ACD. Only update apple will do is to LED displays which just aren't commercially feasible as yet.
MPB? Either Feb 26 or Mar 17 I think....

[Stuipdboy1000]

Time Machine will become available. That's it.
Thats part of Leopard, but if you are meaning Time Capsule then I don't think it will have taken this long to update the store.

[mdtsuk]

so how much longer will the store be down, 5mins, 25mins?

in other words, can i go and make a cuppa' or will i miss all the fun?

Last week it came backup about 13:30 GMT.
I might even go for lunch :rolleyes:


........ but then again, I don't want to be the last to know:eek:

[tsincaat]

Time Machine will become available. That's it.

*snaps at G.I Joe*

[OllyW]

They really do have the majority of their enthusiast clientele figured out. I'm always impressed by the marketing, if not by the products.

I've noticed you don't seem to get the same amount of over the top anticipation when they release new Dell products. ;)

[michaelsviews]

I'm hoping for the new MBP announcement as well, and I'm not even looking to buy one. It just seems to be the most popular "most wanted Apple news" on all the forums. Here's hoping it comes true today!
Morod

Would be nice if the new MBPs came out today or on Wednesday, but I'd say the time machine also. Wont be 3G iPhone, than again the way AT&T's service and rates have been going up I doubt I'd buy another iPhone............

[netdog]

All they have to do is change the shipping times for Time Capsule. This is something else.

Last week it came backup about 13:30 GMT.
I might even go for lunch :rolleyes:


........ but then again, I don't want to be the last to know:eek:

Go to lunch. The UK store is still up.

[Dragon Curve]

IT'S OUT!
50% thinner! Penryn processor! 12" screen and multi-touch!
IT'S OUT!









Nah I lied.

[thefunkymunky]

IT'S OUT!
50% thinner! Penryn processor! 12" screen and multi-touch!
IT'S OUT!









Nah I lied.


Naughty naughty very naughty.:p

[fireghost]

The store will be down every Tuesday for this year according to Jobs.
My guess is 'Time Capsule' today.
No chance of an updated ACD. Only update apple will do is to LED displays which just aren't commercially feasible as yet.
MPB? Either Feb 26 or Mar 17 I think....

I missed out on that info- when/where did Jobs say this?

[squeeks]

shake 5 (http://www.apple.com/shake/) i bet

[netdog]

Any chance that the SDK is here? Doesn't seem to be any event upcoming as had been rumored. Would love to see Skype find its way onto my iPhone. First round of apps for sale?

[davidec]

I missed out on that info- when/where did Jobs say this?

How did everyone miss this? It was part of his keynote. It is his desire to update a product every week of 2008.
Still no official confirmation of the rumored media event next week. Time Capsule today, MPB next week (if there's no media event announced) is my guess.

[G.I. Joe]

Time Machine will become available. That's it.

Time Machine will become available. That's it.

*snaps at G.I Joe*

I meant, Time Capsule will become available! And I didn't want to double post, system delay did this.. :o

[MrT8064]

are you sure your right about that? can you tell use Mins and Secs into the keynote so we can see for our selves ?

[agojes]

austrian store also still up ... any international down ? perhaps from asia etc. ?

Singapore store's still up.

[KJmoon117]

Found this in the other thread...
http://www.macmall.com/macmall/families/macbookpro/

Well, I hope it's a 100$ cut on iPod touch or MBP, hopefully both!

[Pim]

The Dutch one too. I'm guessing new MBP's. That'll mean I don't have the best Apple Notebook anymore...:(

[freediverdude]

Interesting......Engadget is already reporting that they saw the iPod shuffle price drop to $49 before the store went down, so they don't think that's the big news.........

[hodgey1989]

what ever it is we will know very soon, all the previous tuesdays the store has gone back up at 1.30 GMT and its now 1.28 GMT :)

[goka]

I found this little nice script which saves you from manually reloading the AppleStore. When AppleStore opens up this script will open Safari and load AppleStore.


#!/bin/bash

while [ "0" = "0" ]
do
curlgrep=`curl http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore 2>/dev/null | grep "back soon"`
if [ "$curlgrep" = "" ]
then
osascript -e "tell application \"System Events\" to display dialog \"Apple Store back online\nhttp://store.apple.com\"" &
open http://store.apple.com
exit
else
echo "Still down"
fi
sleep 30
done

Save as for example applestore.sh.
Open up terminal and write chmod +x applestore.sh (you need to navigate to the place where you saved your file)
Finally ./applestore.sh to run the script.

[thefunkymunky]

Interesting......Engadget is already reporting that they saw the iPod shuffle price drop to $49 before the store went down, so they don't think that's the big news.........

Yup the shuffle had its price drop before the Store went down. You could still access the Store and see the new prices of the shuffle's

[andrewdale]

Watch them just get rid of the Pink Nano now that V-Day is gone.

HA!

[KJmoon117]

Back up, I don't notice anything

EDIT: Engadget says iPod Shuffle s now 69$ for 2GB

[deputy_doofy]

Nuttin' crazy. iPod shuffle really is $49 now.

[bobbleheadbob]

It's Time Capsule.

[mdtsuk]

All that time and it's just the shuffle price...
They should get some one who can type $49 quicker...

[blumoon]

Interesting......Engadget is already reporting that they saw the iPod shuffle price drop to $49 before the store went down, so they don't think that's the big news.........

Yes when I checked early this morning, all the shuffles were $49. I also noticed the refurb price was lowered on the iMac 24" alum. to $1500.

[Detektiv-Pinky]

So it is up again - what has changed?

[Pim]

The price of the iPod shuffle...:o

[Grasbak]

its much more exciting that just a price drop for the 1gb shuffle... looks like they have introduced a 2gb model......

[thefunkymunky]

Just the shuffle price then and a new 2GB version. :( Jeez, this is getting boooorrrrrriiiiinnnnnnnnnngggggggg now. Hope Apple deliver something special with the iPhone SDK.

[aanndrew]

LMAO!!!!

NO FREEKING WAY
waited 3 hours to see what was coming and it was ipod shuffle

LMAOOOOOOO

i want IPHONE SDK OR NEW FIRMWARE PLEASE
STOP TEKIN THE PISS!!!

[johnnyjibbs]

Wow - so no MBPs then - but the $49 shuffle is pretty sweet. It's almost worth buying another one for that price, but here in the UK it has not been updated and is still £49 ($100) - twice the price!

[andrewdale]

MacBook Air - check
MacPro - check
iPhone - check
iPod Touch - check
iPod Nano - check
iPod Shuffle - check
Aperture - check
10.5.2 - check
Apple TV - check
Time Capsule - semi-check

WOW. Everything's been updated over the past two months!

Except the MBP.

[deputy_doofy]

I, also, do not see a 2gb iPod Suffle. Where do people see this stuff?

[evillageprowler]

Except the MBP.

And the Mini and MB...

[mr.light]

I don't see a 2GB shuffle either. (Canada Store)
$55.00 - Think they got the exchange rate wrong.

[freediverdude]

It's not on the store, but Engadget is reporting a 2gb version available later this month for $69.

[mdtsuk]

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/02/19xsan.html

[deputy_doofy]

While I don't think the iPod Shuffle needed a "Store is down" event, it is nice to see the price drop. Shuffles are very convenient. I (ab)use mine far more than my iPod 5g.

[gothiquegirrl]

Refurb imacs got a limited time price drop... Apple is refunding me $54 on the purchase i made friday... Whoo Hoo! :D

[Dalriada]

It's not on the store, but Engadget is reporting a 2gb version available later this month for $69.

Yes it is. It's on Apple's front page '"2 GB coming soon" and then on the Shuffle page "2 GB coming soon for $69"

:apple:Dal

[freediverdude]

Yes it is. It's on Apple's front page '"2 GB coming soon" and then on the Shuffle page "2 GB coming soon for $69"

:apple:Dal

Sorry, but it's not on my front page of the store, or the shuffle page of the store. i do see it on the gateway page to the Apple site where they have an article about the price drop, if that's what you're talking about.

[mdtsuk]

Oh well... there is always next Tuesday... that should be a big one... or another letdown at this rate... :(

[mr.light]

Found it.
http://www.apple.com/ca/ipodshuffle/

[Detektiv-Pinky]

Yes it is. It's on Apple's front page '"2 GB coming soon" and then on the Shuffle page "2 GB coming soon for $69"

:apple:Dal

Why do people get excited about an 2GB Shuffle? I find the current model almost unusable - I fail to see how even an 64GB model is adding value...

[gothiquegirrl]

Why do people get excited about an 2GB Shuffle? I find the current model almost unusable - I fail to see how even an 64GB model is adding value...

Really? I have a 5th gen video & a itouch , but i really want a 2gb shuffle for on the go. It's light and easy.. and I wouldn't cry if i accidentally lost it or broke it.
Sometimes the other 'pods are just too heavy and cumbersome.

Ang

[Detektiv-Pinky]

Really? I have a 5th gen video & a itouch , but i really want a 2gb shuffle for on the go. It's light and easy.. and I wouldn't cry if i accidentally lost it or broke it.
Sometimes the other 'pods are just too heavy and cumbersome.

Ang

What I mean is: What can a 2GB model do that a 1GB can not?
In shuffle mode the difference should be neglectable, since you are not going through it in one go anyway.
In linear mode the Shuffle becomes even more unusable since the pain to access anything particular is growing with the amount of stored content...

[Dalriada]

What I mean is: What can a 2GB model do that a 1GB can not?

Errr... hold twice as much music and allow you twice as much variety on shuffle mode. Makes a big difference especially when you are out jogging and you make the wrong turn :p

:apple:Dal

[QCassidy352]

Except the MBP.

And the Mini and MB...

and the imac...

so basically, 2 of apple's 3 laptops and 2 of its 3 desktops have NOT been updated in the past 2 months. But other than that, everything, yes. :p

[someone28624]

How much was the shuffle before today?

[xUKHCx]

How much was the shuffle before today?

It was $79

[Sesshi]

I've noticed you don't seem to get the same amount of over the top anticipation when they release new Dell products. ;)

No dog training for me ;)

[tatster]

I am desperately waiting for an updated MBP. I have been waiting till I had the money together, and now I do Apple seem to be toying with those of us who are waiting.

What surprises is me is, while I understand that a drop from $79 to $49 is good news for those wishing to buy a shuffle in the US, that in the UK the shuffle has stayed at £49.
Given that currently 1 US Dollar = 0.51161 British Pound this is just beyond belief.

Anyway, I can't wait much longer... I may just have to buy an existing spec MBP and be done with it.

Tatster.