It is clearly not a technical issue. They simply do it because they can and it creates interest. Of course a commodity-based store such as Amazon cannot pull this stunt. People would buy elsewhere.
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Apple Store Down Ahead of iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 Pre-Orders
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It is clearly not a technical issue. They simply do it because they can and it creates interest. Of course a commodity-based store such as Amazon cannot pull this stunt. People would buy elsewhere.
they are really taking there time with this... 8:00 am central and still down. its been 2 hours now.
Perhaps the concept is more the selling off of old inventory.
Makes good sense. Once dried up, then they are withdrawn.
What I find ironic is that there is a slightly smaller tablet by Apple that has the A8 upgraded processor which blows my mind. I'm surprised that they would announce a new product using the A7 at ALL this year.
The tablet I'm talking about is the iPhone 6 Plus
Now c'mon Apple Store open so I can cash in this gift card on the new Air LOL
The tablet I'm talking about is the iPhone 6 Plus
Now c'mon Apple Store open so I can cash in this gift card on the new Air LOL
Totally agree. As much as I love many Apple products the stuff they do like this or not securing enough bandwidth for streams or missing pre-order launches by four hours is just baffling.
The entire iPad section of their website was down at around 7 AM (EST). I'm guessing that was a mistake and they brought it back up quickly.
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I feel screwed. 16 GB is definitely too little, but 64 GB is overkill. I wanted a $500 32 GB iPad Air 2.
I mean it's not like they are physically loading iPads into a stock room. It's really insane. It's 9am est coast, time for business. Why does it take this company 5 hours to activate their "buy" button and link it to their inventory database. Seriously Busch league.
In real life, there are real things call 'suply constraint'. Apple cannot make enough of their good stuff.
My guess would be Apple is making other store upgrades along with the iPad updates. There aren't many times throughout the year when Apple gets a chance to have the store closed long enough to do anything major behind the scenes and this would be a perfect time prior to the holiday season.
There should be a law against those long site updated. Companies are losing millions because of hundreds of thousands of iSheeps (like myself) refreshing the Apple store every other minute and not doing our jobs.
Apple needs to talk to Amazon.com since they have about 99.99% uptime and they switch stuff out all the time on the fly.
Ermmmm...
It not 1977 anymore !! Updateing the whole shop with new contents would take only a few milliseconds.
I'm not talking about products - actual software and infrastructure takes more than a few milliseconds
In fact there is no need to buy a new iPad as Tim Cook yesterday told us: "The (old) iPad has 100% customer satisfaction."
Everybody should be 100% happy without buying a new one.
In fact there is no need to buy a new iPad as Tim Cook yesterday told us: "The (old) iPad has 100% customer satisfaction."
Everybody should be 100% happy without buying a new one.
Yes, that was for the rMini. I can say as a rMini owner I wasn't 100% satisfied with the Safari issues. They must have surveyed 1 person who was Tcook.
Is that supposed to be a pun on Anheuser-Busch InBev. They are the world's largest brewer and they act that way so not sure what would make them "bush league." Same goes for Apple being the biggest company by market cap. If Appel knows one thing its how to sell and the "dance" that accompanies it.
I'm not talking about products - actual software and infrastructure takes more than a few milliseconds
Um, no it doesn't. Everybody who runs a website has a 'production, and and a 'test' site. All you have to do is put everything up on the test site, test it out then quite literally 'flip the switch'. We were doing this 15+'years ago. If Apple doesn't either have the capability or the knowledge to do it then they really, really need some better staff.