Apple Store Australia is completely down

[JRM PowerPod]

Apple store oz is down

TIGER!!!!

TIGER!!!!

Maybe

[JRM PowerPod]

So's Japan but not the US, well not yet

Everyone must be getting Tiger except the US, cool. lol

[Graeme A]

I would love it if Tiger was up on the store site before most of the others but, Australia always seems to be the last to get things... but enough of my bitching about iTMS AU.

I tried out the store site and got the following:

Your browser sent a message this server could not understand.

Not really what I would like to see from a Safari -> Apple server... Let's cross our fingers and hope that we do actually get something new on the AU Store and not just scheduled maintenance.

[gekko513]

Woohoo, the Norwegian store is also down. (We'll be back soon)

[JRM PowerPod]

All stores are usually being updated before the US store then all put back up together. It's not that we will get it before them but something is happening. IT'S TUESDAY, remember, it's tuesday.

[JRM PowerPod]

US Store down now.

Cool

[MacRy]

UK store is down!

G5 Powerbooks!!!! LOL.

[Maxicek]

US & UK down too...

[James Craner]

US Site down now as well - Waiting for speedbumped ~PowerMac's - will it be today ?

[OziMac]

US Site down now as well - Waiting for speedbumped ~PowerMac's - will it be today ?

Go the Powermacs! Glad I'm not the only one waiting for them instead of G5 Powerbooks or iMac HDs - and hopefully preloaded with Tigerrrrrrr :D

[JRM PowerPod]

Go the Powermacs! Glad I'm not the only one waiting for them instead of G5 Powerbooks or iMac HDs - and hopefully preloaded with Tigerrrrrrr :D

I cheer for the PM's too

bring it on

[CmdrLaForge]

The german store is down as well !

Looks like updates :-) :confused:

[James Craner]

I cheer for the PM's too

bring it on

Heart says PowerMac, head says iMac and or Tiger - rumor is powermacs will get updated at NAB next week with Production Suite

[clykins90]

As soon as those updated iBooks roll out, I'm getting one and tiger for my sawtooth!!! w00t!!!!

[aafuss1]

I'm getting a can't find server error when going to the Apple store-maybe it's down for maintience or new products.

[Fredstar]

woo definately an update - every store is down, maybe Tiger release date being announced for 29th April.
eMac update most likely and possibly 3ghz Pmacs :), i don't think Dual core's will be this year

[OziMac]

Heart says PowerMac, head says iMac and or Tiger - rumor is powermacs will get updated at NAB next week with Production Suite

Don't know - they don't really announce hardware at NAB, just software - eg last year they announced FCP HD, Motion etc and the Powerbook update preceded it by a week or so. Given that we've just had our Powerbook update, it hasn't been too long since the iBook update (and any further updates would be weird as it would make them encroach on Powerbook territory again, so soon after a Powerbook update) - it could be either one of the overdue iMac, eMac or Powermac updates.

Or it could just be Tigerrrrr :)

[clykins90]

Aargghhh!! I can't take it anymore! HURRY UP APPLE!

[zelmo]

It really sucks that I have to attend a meeting every Tuesday morning from 8.30a to 9.30a (US Eastern Time). I always seem to miss the big unveiling. Oh well. Tiger, anyone?

[JRM PowerPod]

Aargghhh!! I can't take it anymore! HURRY UP APPLE!

i concur

[BwanaZulia]

Bring on Tiger, Powermacs and a drop in LCD prices!

BRING IT BABY!!!

BZ

[stoid]

This looks very promising. Just so long as they are back before I have to leave for class in about a hour and a half! :D :eek:

[clykins90]

"We'll be back soon." sticky is up in US Store.

[broken_keyboard]

The day of the Tiger is beginning! Muhahahaha!
(and early too, its like 5:30am in Cupertino)

What else could it be?

[liketom]

unable to access any apple site on my work pc's

[840quadra]

http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/xyz122/store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/welcome.gif

We are busy updating the store for you and will be back within the hour.
You can contact our telesales team at the following numbers:
US 1-800-MY-APPLE
Japan 0120-APPLE-1
Canada 1-800-MY-APPLE
Australia 133-622
Hong Kong 800-908-988
Singapore 1800-MY-APPLE
UK 0800 0391010
France 0800 046046
Denmark 80 24 08 35
Finland 0800 922 72
Germany 0800 2000136
Italy 800 640846
Ireland 1 800 92 38 98
Norway 800 33 034
Spain 900 150503
The Netherlands 0800 0230432
Sweden 020-120 99 71
Switzerland[D] 0800 801078
Switzerland[FR] 0800 845123
Belgium[FL] 0800 95172
Belgium[FR] 0800 95171
Austria 0800 201037

[Fredstar]

Lol if Apple don't release anything or update a Mac, or at least take off those bloody iPod ads i am gonna be pissed off :P
Just mean them doing this to us

[clykins90]

If tiger isn't announced, I'm buyin a dell :D ;)

[JRM PowerPod]

http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/xyz122/store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/welcome.gif

We are busy updating the store for you and will be back within the hour.
You can contact our telesales team at the following numbers:
US 1-800-MY-APPLE
Japan 0120-APPLE-1
Canada 1-800-MY-APPLE
Australia 133-622
Hong Kong 800-908-988
Singapore 1800-MY-APPLE
UK 0800 0391010
France 0800 046046
Denmark 80 24 08 35
Finland 0800 922 72
Germany 0800 2000136
Italy 800 640846
Ireland 1 800 92 38 98
Norway 800 33 034
Spain 900 150503
The Netherlands 0800 0230432
Sweden 020-120 99 71
Switzerland[D] 0800 801078
Switzerland[FR] 0800 845123
Belgium[FL] 0800 95172
Belgium[FR] 0800 95171
Austria 0800 201037

an hour late but why nit pick, its a momentus occasion

[James Craner]

If it is PowerMac i will get a dual G5 2.7 /2.8 but really hoping that Apple delivers on its year old promise of 3 GHz, knowing my luck it will be iMac or eMac. Hope Tiger is announced as well.

[MacRy]

My fiance is heading into town now to buy me a 30Gb iPod Photo now so if they bloody update them after she buys one i'll cry! :)

[isgoed]

Dutch store down too...
I just had to say it.

This is what I love most about macrumors: the anticipation. It is like christmas. Now I just have to press reload all the time the whole day and can't make any plans. I am going to mrchat now see ya.

Oh and my whishlist for santa claus:

dual core powermacs
tiger
upgraded videocards in imac + 2Ghz
next tuesday G5 powerbooks (hahaha, that still wont happen)

[Lacero]

Is it Tuesday already! Yes, Apple's home page is gonna change today!!

[MacRy]

Has anyone considered phoning the store to see what they're updating? Do you think they'd tell?

[JRM PowerPod]

It's been down an hour now, an hour, it's torture!!!!!!

HELP

[BwanaZulia]

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=AAPL

Today, Tue, Apr 12, 2005
• Apple Announces Mac OS X Server 'Tiger'
PR Newswire (Tue 8:31am)
• Apple to Ship Mac OS X 'Tiger' on April 29
PR Newswire (Tue 8:30am)

BZ

[Fredstar]

All this 'Maintenance' on all the stores this week and .Mac being on and off definately points to Tiger being imminent. It just has to be. Please.
Tiger will for sure ship 29th April.

[Applespider]

Argh... and I have to go for an interview for the next 2 hours. Ah well, if it is the Tiger announcement, I'll come back to pages and pages of posts!

[broken_keyboard]

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=AAPL

Today, Tue, Apr 12, 2005
• Apple Announces Mac OS X Server 'Tiger'
PR Newswire (Tue 8:31am)
• Apple to Ship Mac OS X 'Tiger' on April 29
PR Newswire (Tue 8:30am)

BZ

April 29? Good spotting!

[BwanaZulia]

Apple to Ship Mac OS X 'Tiger' on April 29
Tuesday April 12, 8:30 am ET
- More Than 200 New Features & Innovations

CUPERTINO, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X version 10.4 "Tiger" will go on sale Friday, April 29, beginning at 6:00 p.m. during special events at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Tiger has more than 200 new features and innovations including Spotlight(TM), a revolutionary desktop search technology that lets users instantly find anything stored on their Mac®, including documents, emails, contacts and images; and Dashboard, a new way to instantly access important information like weather forecasts and stock quotes, using a dazzling new class of applications called widgets.

"Mac OS X Tiger is the most innovative and secure desktop operating system ever created," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Tiger's groundbreaking new features like Spotlight and Dashboard will change the way people use their computers, and drive our competitors nuts trying to copy them."

Spotlight is Apple's new lightning fast way for users to find virtually anything stored on their Mac. Much like users can instantly find songs in iTunes® by name, artist or album, Spotlight searches the contents inside documents and information about those documents, or metadata, to find just about anything -- emails, contacts, appointments, images, PDFs, and almost any type of document, including Microsoft Office documents -- then automatically organizes and instantly displays the results. Because Spotlight technology is built right into the core of the operating system, it automatically updates results instantly whenever files change and enables developers to incorporate Spotlight technology into their applications. Apple has incorporated Spotlight search technology into several Tiger applications including Mail, Address Book, Finder and System Preferences, and several third party developers are expected to introduce applications with Spotlight search technology in the coming months.

Dashboard is a new world of beautiful accessory applications called widgets that appear instantly to give users immediate access to information like stock quotes, weather forecasts, airline flight tracking, unit of measure, currency conversions and a phone book. With a single click a user's favorite Dashboard widgets instantly appear with up to the second information; with another click they're instantly gone and the user is right back to where they left off. Tiger ships with 14 widgets, and because Dashboard is based on standard web technologies such as HTML and JavaScript, it's easy for third party developers to create new widgets that users can easily add to their Dashboards.

iChat in Tiger supports the stunning new H.264 video codec for dramatically better picture quality over the same Internet bandwidth. Users can now create audio conferences with up to 10 people and video conferences with up to four people in a 3D virtual conference room, just as if they were all seated together at a table*. In addition, contacts on a Buddy List can now see which iTunes song a user is playing and view it in the iTunes Music Store with just one click.

The new Automator workflow application lets users easily automate repetitive tasks without complex programming. Users simply select from a library of more than a hundred customizable actions and drag and drop them to create an automated workflow, specifically tailored to suit their requirements. Once created, workflows can be saved and even shared with friends and colleagues.

A full featured RSS reader is built into Safari(TM) to provide instant access to the most current information from leading news organizations, community web sites and even personal weblogs (blogs) directly from the browser. Multiple RSS feeds can be merged into one easy-to-read interface to create a user's own personal news clipping service.

Other new features in Tiger include:

-- QuickTime® 7, the latest version of Apple's standards-based media
player, with H.264 support, live video resizing, zero-configuration
streaming and extensive surround sound;
-- Mail 2, a dramatically enhanced new version of the Mac OS X built-in
Mail application with a new user interface, Spotlight searching, .Mac
syncing and full screen slideshow;
-- iCal® 2, with support for birthday calendars, calendar groups,
improved printing and Spotlight and Automator functions;
-- Font Book 2, the updated font management utility included in Mac OS X
that now supports libraries for installing fonts anywhere on the system
or network; and
-- a completely new .Mac sync preference using Xsync, a new sync engine
built into Mac OS X that enables .Mac subscribers to automatically
synchronize their Safari bookmarks, iCal appointments, Address Book
contacts, Keychain passwords and Mail settings across multiple
computers.

New core technologies and tools in Tiger make it easy for developers to create the next generation of innovative applications, including:

-- native 64-bit application support to take advantage of the increased
performance unleashed when accessing massive amounts of memory, while
still running side-by-side with existing 32-bit applications;
-- Core Image and Core Video to provide the foundation for new image and
video processing applications;
-- Xgrid(TM), Apple's easy-to-use distributed computing software;
-- improved Windows compatibility to make it even easier for Mac OS X
users to access a Windows-based home directory and authenticate against
Microsoft's Active Directory;
-- major advances to the open standards UNIX-based foundation including an
updated state-of-the-art kernel with improved SMP scalability, 64-bit
virtual memory, Access Control Lists, GCC 4.0 and modernized network
services; and
-- Xcode(TM) 2, the latest version of Apple's powerful suite of developer
tools, designed to make it even easier and faster to build innovative
Mac OS X applications.

Pricing & Availability

Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger" will be available on April 29 beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and through Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $129 (US) for a single user license. Visitors to the Apple Store® (www.apple.com) can pre-order copies of Tiger beginning today. The Mac OS X Tiger Family Pack is a single-residence, five-user license that will be available for a suggested retail price of $199 (US). Volume and maintenance pricing is available from Apple. The standard Mac OS Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchase a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller on or after April 12 for a shipping and handling fee of $9.95 (US). Tiger requires a minimum of 256MB of memory and is designed to run on any Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G5, G4, or G3 processor and built-in FireWire®.

* Initiating a multiway video conference requires a PowerPC G5 processor or dual 1GHz G4 processors and 384 Kbps or faster broadband Internet access. Participating in a multiway video conference requires a 1Ghz G4 or dual 800 MHz G4 processors or faster and 100 Kbps broadband Internet access.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes online music store.

NOTE: Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, Spotlight, iTunes, Safari, iCal, QuickTime, Xcode, Xgrid, Apple Store and FireWire are trademarks of Apple. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.


Source: Apple Computer, Inc.

[JRM PowerPod]

April 29? Good spotting!

I agree macrumors legend status for this guy

[OziMac]

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=AAPL

Today, Tue, Apr 12, 2005
• Apple Announces Mac OS X Server 'Tiger'
PR Newswire (Tue 8:31am)
• Apple to Ship Mac OS X 'Tiger' on April 29
PR Newswire (Tue 8:30am)

BZ

So its been reported on the financial markets? This is good... hope there are some hardware updates in there as well... bring on April 29!

[MacRy]

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=AAPL

Today, Tue, Apr 12, 2005
• Apple Announces Mac OS X Server 'Tiger'
PR Newswire (Tue 8:31am)
• Apple to Ship Mac OS X 'Tiger' on April 29
PR Newswire (Tue 8:30am)

BZ

Well there you go. Good find mate.

[BwanaZulia]

No new hardware.

BZ

[MacRy]

Argh... and I have to go for an interview for the next 2 hours. Ah well, if it is the Tiger announcement, I'll come back to pages and pages of posts!

Good luck in your interview! :)

[broken_keyboard]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/

[JRM PowerPod]

TIGER IS HERE

[OziMac]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/

And the stores are back up!

[MacRy]

UK store back up. Tiger is in there......YAY! :)

[aafuss1]

So its been reported on the financial markets? This is good... hope there are some hardware updates in there as well... bring on April 29!
Good find too-the two press releases are now at:apple.com/pr.

I noticed a different look at the Apple homepage as well (most of the site's elements are in silver).

[NiftyBritches]

US store is back up and Tiger is THERE!!!!!

[Fredstar]

Woooo ordered Tiger woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[rosalindavenue]

Appears to be updated for Tiger only-- no new hardware....

[swy32x]

You heard it at http://www.ionmac.com/ first!

Tiger on the 29th!

[isgoed]

www.apple.com

The black interface just ROCKS!

[broken_keyboard]

Woooo ordered Tiger woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Did you watch the complimentary seminar?

[MacSA]

www.apple.com

The black interface just ROCKS!

UK Apple site still has iPods on the front page :rolleyes: Tiger is buried away on the Apple store lol

[nospleen]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! No Powermacs or imacs...

[Fredstar]

Did you watch the complimentary seminar?

It isn't till 29th mate, i think anyways.
Wow lots of new stuff
ical 2, new dvd player, new address book, as i said in other threads this is an awesome release. Can't wait to get my copy. :)

[MacRy]

Nice to see that an option to Print has been included in the contextual menus now.....

[aafuss1]

There's also now a 'Tiger Center' on the Apple store .

[aafuss1]

I'm very relieved that Apple will ship Tiger on April 29 (a mid-April announcement was quite true).In the next few weeks, I'm sure we'll see announcements of updated eMacs, G5's and iMac's.

Also in Tiger, there's a new version of iCal and Grapher.

[Graeme A]

well, i have ordered Tiger!!! That is a major goodie on the site. I might install it on the wife's PB before trying it on my machine as I will find out any issues about firewire and stuff on there and wait for everyone to report back on the forums...