Apple Store Down Ahead of Rumored New iPad Pro Announcement

[madmin]

Posting a sign during business hours that says “Be Right Back,” with no ETA is the best way to market to pro users.

Yeah sure, treat em mean to keep em keen ! ^^

 

[DexterMorgan x]

Can't wait to buy stuff I do not need.

 

[Born Again]

This is actually inconvenient for me. Looking to make a purchase now.

2001 called. Stop this charade apple!!!!!

Apple needs to get rid of this practice. The store shutdown is all pomp and circumstance. Lol anyone believe they’re actually hard at work updating their website?

 

[majus]

I always get excited when the Apple Store goes down. Am I weird?

Do you have the lights on when this happens? Asking for a friend.

 

[DMG35]

Do you have the lights on when this happens? Asking for a friend.

Blinds are closed 😂

 

[dsampley]

How much longer?

 

[Smartuser]

How much longer?

38 minutes.

 

[MayaUser]

38 minutes.

38 min? it will be 10minutes or an hour and 10minutes

 

[tufapshakur]

How much longer?

UPS will be delivering the floppy drive containing all the website updates to their main data centre team in the next hour. From there, the updates will be unpacked (presuming none of the floppies have bad sectors) and then pushed out to all the web servers.

 

[ian87w]

Posting a sign during business hours that says “Be Right Back,” with no ETA is the best way to market to pro users.

The Apple brand is strong enough that people wouldn’t mind. In fact, it creates hype and excitement, as shown by the various tech bloggers pointing out.

 

[FNH15]

I always get excited when the Apple Store goes down. Am I weird?

Nope! But if it lasts more than 4 hours you might want to see a Doctor 😂

(In all seriousness I’m the same way)

 

[appleboyy]

still not back up..

 

[tufapshakur]

still not back up..

Thanks. Please keep us updated?

 

[coolbreeze2]

Apple simply loves the theatrics?

OR

They simply have a clunky back end?

OR

Tim loves an extended drum roll?

When you say "clunky back end", exactly who at Apple are you referring to? LOL

 

[alexanderwolf]

As silly as it is having the store go down ahead of product launches, it remains something decidedly Apple-like. So, I don’t mind it. …but really it needs to be back up asap. 🤣

 

[W£S]

still not back up..

Another 56mins then?

 

[hovscorpion12]

We're 3 hours away from 10AM California time. If anything, page goes live at 1PM EST/10AM PST

 

[Smartuser]

We're 3 hours away from 10AM California time. If anything, page goes live at 1PM EST/10AM PST

Ain't that the truth.

 

[tufapshakur]

We're 3 hours away from 10AM California time. If anything, page goes live at 1PM EST/10AM PST

Surely they can't keep the site down that long for an iPad refresh and a press release announcement?

 

[toke lahti]

MAC PRO LAUNCH AMIRITE?!

Could well be.
There's no need for an event "since hardly no-one is buying them anymore".

Btw, what really was the famous moment of "hardly no-one..."?

 

[coolbreeze2]

It's mid-morning and the Apple Store is still down for the new products. I'm tired of waiting. I'm just going to go buy a Surface or Pixel product instead. NOT!!! NEVER!! NO WAY!!

Loyal Apple fans like me are the reason only Apple can take a product's web page down for hours and not suffer one bit. Amazon, MS, and Google would suffer I bet.

 

[AdamNC]

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Back up? New MacBook Pros and MacBook Air?



Ohh, I go to the refurb store and it's down, everything else seems up. Hmm... The 'Store' link at the top is down, rest of site is up. *shrug*

 

[mikeb13]

This is taking forever. Apple just announce the new/updated products already.

 

[tufapshakur]

Is this still the case?

I'm refreshing this page like crazy waiting for news.