Australian Apple store down. Normally Tuesday evenings is when we see updates, Sunday nights are maintenance. So it might be something of note...
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That was up 2 minutes ago...mmm maybe this is something to stir up CES
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The timing could be to prepare for next week but then why not wait until the weekend to do that testing. Very curious to see if they through something out there for the CES news cycle.
This could become a traditional piss all over the CES fire and then come Macworld piss all over it some more - although I think Gates did a good enough job on his own this year.
Have a coffee, have some lunch and then check back at 2 pm UK time - that's when the new products will be up - probably MacPro and MacBook Pro revisions.
Updates to the less exciting and less consumer oriented products (Mac Pro, XServe etc) to free up space in the MacWorld keynote for exciting consumer stuff.
Maybe MacWorld has come early
Maybe they will release the rumoured new Apple boombox for CES
They will probably get some minor updates out of the way so they can concentrate on the major ones coming up in Macworld! Then again maybe they'll just release the big ones now and macworld will just be Stevey having a coffee (starbucks?) on stage and chatting to the audience about their holidays!
most likely the usual suspects for silent upgrades, like mac mini and xserve ...
i suspect they want to make a bigger deal out of mac pro updates (which are long overdue)
i suspect they want to make a bigger deal out of mac pro updates (which are long overdue)
Hopefully they'll update both the iMac and Apple TV as I'm going to buy tomorrow!!
I see AppleTV being to big for a silent upgrade. I think they will need it for the rumoured media links.
I'd say they use the time to test the site to make sure the updates all work fine, that every link is pointing where it should and that any new code does that its supposed to. Also maybe for last minute spell checking.
Also it gives them time to fix things if something goes wrong with the update. People make mistakes when rushed but when you know you have a whole hour to do it then you won't rush as much and have better results.
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