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Apple Store Goes Down Ahead of Today's 'Hey Siri' Media Event
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Why would you want the next bigger product to have the option to make phone calls where we have smaller user friendlier products that interacts with humans in a practical manner, e.g. bringing a lightweight device to your ear not too far away from your mouth? And newsflash, all modern tablets, including ipads are able to make calls using the Internet already. I still don't understand why people want ALL products to do the same functions whether it's practical or not.
Oh they could make it function so that it wouldn't go down.
It's for one simple reason; anticipation.
Perhaps you should have your ennui checked?
“I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.” - Benjamin Franklin
What's confusing about it? The bottom of the page pretty much has links to everything that was on the store.apple.com page.
I predict when the store comes back up only thing new will be different iWatch bands & accessories. Preorder for everything else announced will be next week.
You set up the new website offline, and then publish the actual changes. Time needed - a few minutes.
Does it? The iPhone is consistently the best smartphone on the market. While they may not have all the features, their products just work and work brilliantly compared to the competition. And the OS is in another league when you compare it for the majority of users. (Android is brilliant for power users and developers but not for your general user).
Samsung are the catch up guys AFAIK.
You wouldn't even do that, it's all be online but you'd configure the site to show different content at different times through their portal. Chances are that's how it's working now but as some/you have suggested, there's an artificial barrier/delay for PR reasons.
In any event the content should be dynamic enough to not require site content to be uploaded for a product announcement...sites like Facebook and Google go so far as to offer different site features to different users when trailing new features (often without the user knowing), so there's no technical reason for Apple to take the site down at all and it could reside there days ahead of schedule if secured properly.
I called in sick to work! I did the same yesterday cuz i wanted no distractions leading up to this day. I'm ready. So so so ready.
Depends on what it is, for example if you care about the security of your smartphone (and your personal data stored on it) its Android and Windows Phone that are miles behind and playing catch up (because of their business model of having vendors and then providers controlling patch creation / distribution - which can't be fixed easily):
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/waiting-for-androids-inevitable-security-armageddon/
http://arstechnica.com/security/201...he-ropes-with-one-two-punch-from-researchers/
these types of comments will assuredly be the least exciting things about the event throughout the day. if the rumored update of the iPhone and iPad are even half true, it's far less incremental than the past few events (minus the AW)
Only relevant to some people, but I would be amazed if they did not silently adjust international prices. The Euro is down alot in the medium term and the Yuan plummeted recently. They have history of silently changing prices internationally to try and keep the costs the same in different countries and remove incentive to smuggle products across borders.
To be honest, I always use both just in case lol. App always comes on quicker for me though, so I usually do end up using it.