Apple Store Down

[blueflame]

Updating? New Imacs? Tablets? iPod touch with Camera? Actually, I hope it is an apple Game system based onApple TV. or Apple tv connected to the app store. Darnit, i want something cool.
i hope so for something, not just taking away a cable or something
It happened on me right at midnight, it took me a minute to decide what to do about it.

34 countries out.

[Vivid.Inferno]

The Canadian one is down as well.

[wywern209]

yeah, it is def down but i doubt we're getting a revised ipod touch w/ the camera. cuz its been what. 1 to 2 weeks. It would been pointless to announce the camera less touch if apple was coming out with a cam in just 2 weeks. i think it has to do with the apple tv if anything since there have been price drops and such. maybe a laptop mini- update?

[Battlefield Fan]

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[RazHyena]

Yeah I just noticed it.

Ooooooo I hope it's something interesting!

[gr8tfly]

Strange time for update. Early Sunday morning seems to be a more likely time for maintenance. Guess we'll see soon. :)

[spillproof]

I hope it is somewhat exciting, not just bug fixes.

[tooz]

or......................general maintenance :rolleyes:

[Vivid.Inferno]

or......................general maintenance :rolleyes:
That's kinda what I was thinking. But I'm allowed to hope =P

[bartelby]

Nearly every Sunday this happens.

:rolleyes:

[superatombomb]

probably not, but i have butterflies in my stomach!

[macswitcha2]

That will be great if we have new iMacs....

[shoppy]

They usually carry out maintenance on Sundays.

[ss957916]

Someone pressed the wrong button.

Product refresh on a Sunday morning? No.

[iphonesarecool]

It sure is!

http://www.isapplestoredown.com/

http://www.apple.com/uk/


I think it's new Macs or maybe something we don't know about.

[iPhone 62S]

Nearly every Sunday this happens.

:rolleyes:

Twitter gets Follow Friday, so we get Apple Store Down Sunday :p

I don't think it will be a tablet or anything, though, Jobso would want to announce that, not just quietly add it to the store.

[nullx86]

I'm thinking its either a quiet iMac / MacBook update or just general maintenance

[luisin]

Waiting for an iMac update, price, specs, design, something!

[macinfojunkie]

I'm thinking its either a quiet iMac / MacBook update or just general maintenance

Why does Apple need to take their entire store offline just to make some minor updates? Is their merchant tech that backward? Imagine if Amazon, ebay or any other major web retailer had to close the entire front end, just because they add a new line item or change the price!

If they are adding some new product then I can understand maybe that they want to be their usual melodramatic self, but if this is just regular maintenance, then it is pathetic that they need to go totally offline.

I'm hoping for a Mac Pro quad speed bump, but I fear that hope will be in vain. :p

[iSlave]

Still down! How long does maintenance last????

Maybe it is new iMacs after all? It's be great for Apple to get new flagship hardware out just ahead of Win7. :apple:

[davidwarren]

They can't rebuild the site offline and then switch the old out for the new? It's not like they have to take the site to the shop and get the tires balanced, why would the store be down?? I know that's just how they do it, but it seems silly.

[OzExige]

They usually carry out maintenance on Sundays.

It is Sunday in the land 'down-under!

Yeee haaaa
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Do it to us again :apple:

Edit:
Seems that all stores are down?
Gunna be a biggy?

[AdeFowler]

Why does Apple need to take their entire store offline just to make some minor updates? Is their merchant tech that backward? Imagine if Amazon, ebay or any other major web retailer had to close the entire front end, just because they add a new line item or change the price!
Exactly what I was about to post. I'd guess Amazon would lose millions if they done this as often as Apple do.

[Chundles]

Nothing.

It's regular weekend maintenance. Happens a lot.

[spillproof]

It is down everywhere (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=8514362), sadly. Could be just maintenance.

[shadow1]

seems strange. Where's the event?

[harry20larry]

Why does Apple need to take their entire store offline just to make some minor updates? Is their merchant tech that backward? Imagine if Amazon, ebay or any other major web retailer had to close the entire front end, just because they add a new line item or change the price!

If they are adding some new product then I can understand maybe that they want to be their usual melodramatic self, but if this is just regular maintenance, then it is pathetic that they need to go totally offline.

I'm hoping for a Mac Pro quad speed bump, but I fear that hope will be in vain. :p

Its part of apple, by doing this, they create speculation and excited, that wouldn't be there if they just 'added' it

[OutSpoken]

Yeah I just noticed it.

Ooooooo I hope it's something interesting!

I hope not, Im trying not to spend no more money on Apple this year.:D

[AdeFowler]

Its part of apple, by doing this, they create speculation and excited, that wouldn't be there if they just 'added' it

But if they're not adding anything, aren't they just losing revenue just for the sake of maintenance? What needs maintaining anyway? :confused:

Maybe it's an iTunes-esque site revamp.

[macinfojunkie]

Its part of apple, by doing this, they create speculation and excited, that wouldn't be there if they just 'added' it

It gets tired after a while.

I was not aware that they did regular maintenance every Sunday that required the site to be down. That's a new one on me. But if so it is even more pathetic. I can somehow forgive taking the store offline when there is a pre-announced even and they want to create/support the buzz. That's part of their narcissistic marketing approach and bloated sense of importance they seem to have for every little announcement, no matter how mundane it is. But to bring the site down every week. That just sends the signal to me that you should not run e-commerce on apple kit. Harsh and incorrect i know, but it gives a negative impression of the flexibility of an Apple commercial platform in my mind.

[Hellhammer]

Apple usually does maintance updates on Sunday. We'll see....

[OllyW]

It gets tired after a while.

I was not aware that they did regular maintenance every Sunday that required the site to be down. That's a new one on me. But if so it is even more pathetic. I can somehow forgive taking the store offline when there is a pre-announced even and they want to create/support the buzz. That's part of their narcissistic marketing approach and bloated sense of importance they seem to have for every little announcement, no matter how mundane it is. But to bring the site down every week. That just sends the signal to me that you should not run e-commerce on apple kit. Harsh and incorrect i know, but it gives a negative impression of the flexibility of an Apple commercial platform in my mind.

I don't think it's every Sunday but the maintenance shut downs are fairly regular.

As far as I know, there have never been any new products updated on the Store on a Sunday. I can't think of any other major on-line retailers who close their site down like this. :confused:

[Hellhammer]

OMG OMG!!! It's back online! New iMac, MacBooks and Tablet!!!!! iMac starts from 799$ and it's thicker now and has DESKTOP CPU!!!!! OMGOMGOMG!!!!

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Just kidding you guys, it's still offline :p

[nullx86]

OMG OMG!!! It's back online! New iMac, MacBooks and Tablet!!!!! iMac starts from 799$ and it's thicker now and has DESKTOP CPU!!!!! OMGOMGOMG!!!!

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Just kidding you guys, it's still offline :p


*******, I was about to cancel my order and go order new stuff.

[mickbab]

OMG OMG!!! It's back online! New iMac, MacBooks and Tablet!!!!! iMac starts from 799$ and it's thicker now and has DESKTOP CPU!!!!! OMGOMGOMG!!!!

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Just kidding you guys, it's still offline :p


You had me until you said tablet :rolleyes:

You would've had me with this:

It's back online! New iMac and MacBooks! iMac starts from 799$ and it's thicker now and has a DESKTOP CPU!

[TheBritishBloke]

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Just kidding you guys, it's still offline :p
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I knew it was a joke when I saw you're name. xD

[Jodlesx]

Even the Norwegian Apple store is offline...

[morfeas-dsl-]

pls show us the new imacs!!!!

[oftheheavens]

if they do i am buying one

[rossagrant]

Let's be sensible guys! There are certainly going to be no new iMacs or major hardware revisions out of the blue. Maybe some minor price changes in the light of rumours of new iMacs and Macbook revisions later next month but I don't think we'll see anything of magnitude. This does not mean I wouldn't love to be proved wrong! :)

[idleboy]

New Imac , New Imac :d:d

[AdeFowler]

I get the feeling that the store being down is due to a problem of some kind. 4+ hours seems a long time to do maintenance.

[nullx86]

hey maybe they're keeping it down on all sites and adding products? That does take a bit longer then maintenance

[Hellhammer]

hey maybe they're keeping it down on all sites and adding products? That does take a bit longer then maintenance

It can be done in less than an hour... Think about keynotes, it's down for like 30 minutes.

[mickbab]

Maybe they are doing some sort of complete rebuild.
I think there would have to be some sort of problem here because even the biggest product launch can't take this long.

[marold280]

i cant believe its still down! this is the longest ever !

[OllyW]

It can be done in less than an hour... Think about keynotes, it's down for like 30 minutes.

For the iPod event the other week it went down a couple of hours before the keynote started and came back up just after it finished. We've had similar downtime for most other keynotes in recent years.

The usual Tuesday updates usually go down about 11:30 GMT and come back up around 13:30. I know this because the new stuff always comes out just after my lunch break has finished. :)

[nullx86]

A rebuild seems more logical considering the store has the iTunes 8 theme, and some of the store parts were messing up the other night when I purchased my iMac (I had to purchase it about 7 times before it went thru, kept saying it timed out, when it wasnt)

[macinfojunkie]

Maybe they're upgrading to SL and borked the system :D

[nissan.gtp]

If they ran in on Windows, they could do maintenance while its online.













:runs: :D

[Hellhammer]

For the iPod event the other week it went down a couple of hours before the keynote started and came back up just after it finished. We've had similar downtime for most other keynotes in recent years.

The usual Tuesday updates usually go down about 11:30 GMT and come back up around 13:30. I know this because the new stuff always comes out just after my lunch break has finished. :)

But they added iTunes 9, could that make difference? Usually updates aren't on Sundays and don't take over 4 hours....

[Stuart in Oz]

Rather annoying - I just went online to get an iPod touch for my mother and... it's offline.

Guess I'll have to wait for tomorrow morning instead. This has totally ruined my life. :rolleyes:

[SwiftLives]

99% of the time, product releases are on Tuesdays. (Unless there's a Monday holiday that week). They wouldn't update products on a weekend because Apple's PR department doesn't work weekends.

Unless the iMac update is more than a speed boost and a price drop, then we won't be seeing a media event for it. They'll be announced via press release.

[OllyW]

But they added iTunes 9, could that make difference? Usually updates aren't on Sundays and don't take over 4 hours....

Sunday downtime has always been down to maintenance.

[gan6660]

I dont know why they would do matenance when they just updated it last week?

[puffnstuff]

$10 price drop on the iPod nano and touch is my guess since that is what it is selling for at other retailers

[Hellhammer]

Sunday downtime has always been down to maintenance.

Sorry if my post was misleading, I meant no product updates on Sundays, btu maintance are usually on Sundays, sorry.

[MacFanUK]

UK store still down. How long does it 'maintenance' usually take?

[Hellhammer]

UK store still down. How long does it 'maintenance' usually take?

Not long, unless they have problems. Maybe something like an hour. I agree, it's strange that it's been down so long

[djrod]

Spanish store just opened now!

http://store.apple.com/es

[MacFanUK]

Store back online.....nothing new :(

[codenamecueball]

Not long, unless they have problems. Maybe something like an hour. I agree, it's strange that it's been down so long

Its back.

Edit: AH YAH BEAT MEH!

[superatombomb]

damn, nothing new

that's disappointing :(

[OllyW]

Store back online.....nothing new :(

And you are surprised?

[bartelby]

And you are surprised?


And they'll all be surprised again after the next Sunday maintenance...

[tjcampbell]

Different refurbs are listed compared to yesterday.

[OllyW]

Different refurbs are listed compared to yesterday.

Refurbs are updated every night around midnight (in the UK) without the store going down.

[Buzz Bumble]

If they ran in on Windows, they could do maintenance while its online.

:runs: :D

If the Apple Store ran on Windows, then it would be working ONLY on Sundays for a few hours, if you're lucky, and offline for the rest of the week for "maintenance" (aka malware removal, rebooting, re-installing, finding which computer crashed the system just because a mouse was unplugged for cleaning and plugged in again, etc.). ;)


These days there should be no reason at all to take an entire website down for regular "maintenence", nor when simply adding products to a webstore, nor even for a complete redesign of the website.

[Target362]

If the Apple Store ran on Windows, then it would be working ONLY on Sundays for a few hours, if you're lucky, and offline for the rest of the week for "maintenance" (aka malware removal, rebooting, re-installing, finding which computer crashed the system just because a mouse was unplugged for cleaning and plugged in again, etc.). ;)


These days there should be no reason at all to take an entire website down for regular "maintenence", nor when simply adding products to a webstore, nor even for a complete redesign of the website.

They didnt take down the site when apple changed the header back in 2007 from the gell like tabs to the gray buttons. though I remember a lot of coding, and miss placed images all over the place (like the ipod pages were for the first few hours of being up)