Yeah... overnight. This was prime time throughout the entire country.
Also, it specifically said they were updating the Apple Store, not maintenance as it usually states when they are actually performing maintenance.
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Yeah... overnight. This was prime time throughout the entire country.
Also, it specifically said they were updating the Apple Store, not maintenance as it usually states when they are actually performing maintenance.
but in this case they added (1) item hence it was updated, or do they have to add more the (1) item to classify it as an update, or maybe they could of said updating AND maintenance
Still an odd time (US primetime) and a huge amount of time to add one item...
And again, why not choose to do maintenance overnight?
It wasn't primetime and it wasn't necessarily just to add one item. It was overnight and back online around 6AM.
No, it went down around 10-10:30 for me here on the East Coast, which means, 9, 8, and 7 across the country.
You must have had a problem with your browser. It was up for me around 10pm in the Central Time Zone. This thread was started at 10:37pm, Central.
No, I didn't. I don't care what time the thread started, I'm telling you what happened for me. Even if it did go down at 11:30 here for some/most people, that's 10:30, 9:30, and 8:30 in the rest of the country... which is primetime
The refurb section gets updated several times a day, without taking the site down.
I know that, but theyve changed the pictures, don't know if it can be done without taking the site down?
Although it obviously wasn't the only reason, I'm just pointing out its another addition.
Most likely the Thermostat and prep for the site so they can update it simultaneously as soon as a product (fingers crossed it's the MBPro) is launched/talked about at WWDC.
I'm not a web developer so, is there anyway that they could have a page in place ready to go online hiding behind the current frontage. Ie. having it all ready behind what we see, so to speak?
I'm not a web developer so, is there anyway that they could have a page in place ready to go online hiding behind the current frontage. Ie. having it all ready behind what we see, so to speak?
Really depends on what they're running to control content, but no reason it can't be sitting there waiting for a publish now button.
I build websites. you dont have to take a site down to update it unless it is a major change across the board. small changes can be done very quickly without anyone even noticing till they see it changed in a nano second. And yes you can build updated pages and hold them to hit publish whenever you want. having said all this... this whole deal makes no sense to me... almost like they're messing with us...
Could be the marketing departments researching forums etc to see how much "noise" is actually made on sites like this......
I'm guessing it was down because of DNS cache's being updated.
Also I just noticed you can't select pick up at local store. It's not there.
Also I just noticed you can't select pick up at local store. It's not there.
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I build websites. you dont have to take a site down to update it unless it is a major change across the board. small changes can be done very quickly without anyone even noticing till they see it changed in a nano second. And yes you can build updated pages and hold them to hit publish whenever you want. having said all this... this whole deal makes no sense to me... almost like they're messing with us...
Fair enough. Just out of interest then (and believe me it's not me doubting you) but why do Apple take down their store during the likes of iPhone/iPad launches?
Is that simply traffic issues and to stop people potentially buying an 'old' product?
How is this still possible in 2012 and to the largest, richest, highest tech company in the universe.
Seriously, does anybody know why Apple's store has to go down so many times?
I'm really curious about this.
Seriously, does anybody know why Apple's store has to go down so many times?
I'm really curious about this.
Is the Education Plan for Students and Educators new?
http://store.apple.com/us/education_payment_plan
This was down after the rest of the site came up, so I wonder if this is what they added or updated.
http://store.apple.com/us/education_payment_plan
This was down after the rest of the site came up, so I wonder if this is what they added or updated.
I'm browsing it now - it's up.
It's probably your cookies and cache. Hold ctrl + F5 to force refresh on a PC. Not sure if that works for Mac.
It's probably your cookies and cache. Hold ctrl + F5 to force refresh on a PC. Not sure if that works for Mac.
I would say it has something to do with that. With a whole new line up of any one product much less several on this scale there would be many changes that would have to be made on many pages. So With a company as big as Apple with as many sales that could potentially hit at one time you wouldn't want any cross wiring in the crossover... I think they have the pages ready and the buttons set to push but are sort of holding the door closed till everything is perfectly set for the avalanche of hits their about to receive as soon as they say GO!
Agreed, my only guess and hope is they are doing a large upgrade on the back end for some sort of large change. You would think with the amount of money the site brings in they would maintain at least five 9s.
They use a CDN so I do not know how much fingerprinting/deep site analysis would reveal.