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Apple Store Down in Advance of (PRODUCT)RED iPhone 7 and New 9.7-inch iPad Launch at 8:01 a.m. Pacific Time

So, are these new products available for in-store pickup today? If so, do the new iPad/iPhone ship with with 10.3?
 
At this point, it's pretty clear that Apple takes their store down solely to build the anticipation surrounding new products. In this day and age, it shouldn't be necessary for them to take their entire online store down for hours at a time just to modify the products they have for sale. It's all a part of the game.
 
now i see it said:
So I went to buy a 12 core Mac Pro and iPhone today. The Apple online store is closed, so I bought my computer from HP & a Samsung phone instead.
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I dunno. Seems a bit improbable. The store was shut down for 6 hours not 6 months -- probably would not affect today's shipping. Seems if is looking to buy a Mac Pro the store shutting down would not be an obstacle. Now the MP being old as crap -- that would be a reason not to buy. As for iPhones -- those are in stock everywhere. Target opens at 8am in a lot of places. Walmart is 24hrs in many as well. And every major seller of Samsung phones also sells iPhones.
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archvile said:
So, are these new products available for in-store pickup today? If so, do the new iPad/iPhone ship with with 10.3?
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I think I read they will be in-store early next week.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Hey, now. Unboxing videos -- well done ones and short ones at least -- can be useful. I've resorted to them many times because many companies are silent or ambiguous on their product's web pages as to what is included in the box.

Taking a web site down for hours like this is not only silly it costs sales of other products. I understand when it's done before an Apple Special Event. But this, not so much. Apple already had the "buy" buttons set up days ago.
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Yeah but have you ever seen the ones where the box is just sitting there while the fool drones on and on, so that you want to reach through the screen and whack them upside the head and yell "Open the damned box already!"
 
GrumpyMom said:
Yeah but have you ever seen the ones where the box is just sitting there while the fool drones on and on, so that you want to reach through the screen and whack them upside the head and yell "Open the damned box already!"
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Oh yesss. That is why I clarified the short ones. The ones you speak of I'd rather put my head inside an airplane engine than watch the entire video. But also thank the Lord for being able to FF video on YouTube so I don't have to either. Heh.
 
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I think it's odd that I can't access the older products like the IPods. Pretty sure those aren't going to be updated, but who knows. Oh well I'm not buying one anyway. I was just curious.

I think these days we are used to being able to access at least part of any online store and not see an entire site go down. What about the dongles...does nobody think about the dongles! ;)
 
This is a waste of time for what amounts to little more than a new iPhone color scheme and what is essentially the iPad Air SE. Oh wait, I forgot - watch bands! Woohoo.
 
Something special just for me?

And here I was thinking that they'd forgotten completely about the Mac Pro...

Thank god it's not another boring, iterative bump to the iPads or even worse, a re-release of an existing product in another colour...
 
Chupa Chupa said:
If you really believe it 1) takes 6 hours to update products on a web site and 2) Apple doesn't have the capability like every other major web store to update transparently, on the fly, w/o disrupting the system you might want to consider decreasing your Kool-Aid budget. Then again, you might want to do so just for suggesting it as a lame defense of Apple here. This is pure grandstanding on Apple's part. (Or maybe I'm giving Apple too much credit for being a tech leader if they don't have that capability).
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If you would have read Post #34, which was before you posted your trite of a post, it clearly stated I wasn't aware of why six hours was necessary and it was strange. I never defended Apple, only to state they frequently close the site for product updates. That wasn't a defense mechanism and the overly abused "Kool-Aid" theme wasn't appropriaty used in this situation.

So perhaps the latter of your post was giving Apple too much credit for being a tech leader.
 
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6 hours. I'm sure Apple has an army of people who manage the website. 2 products. The changes are probably already on a staging or dev server and all they'd need to do is push the new pages out.
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Agree crazy down time. Im in the Uk and am unable to check out a product or view orders this as been the case all day -I guess at 6pm 3 hours time we will be allowed access to our orders
 
uk1ee said:
Agree crazy down time. Im in the Uk and am unable to check out a product or view orders this as been the case all day -I guess at 6pm 3 hours time we will be allowed access to our orders
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That's a bit annoying as well - store goes down and we're unable to access online account, order history, etc.
 
So, a red iPhone, which we already knew about, iWatch bands, which we already knew about, and a new iPad, which we already knew about. Where is the new stuff we DIDN'T know about?
 
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