Apple's Online Store Down Ahead of iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Pre-Orders

[fcs132]

Apple simply can't do any type of launch without completely screwing it up anymore. Tim Cook's Apple.

http://store.apple.com/au seems to be working again...so strange how you can't access the whole site :/

That didn't work for me but http://store.apple.com/en did

 

[goodpasterm]

https://secure2.store.apple.com/us/account

The store is still down but this link is working...

 

[JFazYankees]

Apple Store app now says "We'll be back" again instead of giving a connection error.

 

[fcs132]

Apple Store app now says "We'll be back" again instead of giving a connection error.

Mine still says "Cannot Connect to the Apple Store"

 

[S197Mike]

so preorders start at 2am? central time

 

[mariusignorello]

We're probably the reason why their site is crumbling to pieces, refreshing every five seconds.

 

[fcs132]

We're probably the reason why their site is crumbling to pieces, refreshing every five seconds.

Haha! You got that right

 

[doxielover]

https://secure2.store.apple.com/us/account

The store is still down but this link is working...

Can we use this link to pre order?

 

[musukosan]

Yep, whole website is down. That's different.

I want to say this is the same error I got last year right at launch time. Took a long time to get in.

 

[mariusignorello]

They changed the dev site back to Helvetica. Guess Myriad was giving the servers a hard time.

 

[mariusignorello]

Haha! You got that right

I could picture their data centers catching on fire right now and Tim taking shots one after another.

 

[TheBuffather]

But last year they didn't have a Access Denied error, this seems like an internal issue with some servers or something, maybe they're getting DDOS'd like someone suggested above

I remember seeing the Access Denied error a little while before the launch time last year, but the site was back up by 12PST/3EST.

 

[JFazYankees]

Mine still says "Cannot Connect to the Apple Store"

Just checked again, still "We'll be back"

 

[Wild-Bill]

We're probably the reason why their site is crumbling to pieces, refreshing every five seconds.

With the billions and billions of dollars Apple has, you would think they'd have this figured out by now...

 

[Nautilus007]

With the billions and billions of dollars Apple has, you would think they'd have this figured out by now...

Watch orders won't go live till 4 am

 

[mariusignorello]

With the billions and billions of dollars Apple has, you would think they'd have this figured out by now...

I hope they don't use AT&T as their ISP

 

[fcs132]

Just checked again, still "We'll be back"

Yup, we'll be back now

 

[fcs132]

No surprise here

 

[Razeus]

What time can we actually pre order?

 

[macsba]

Still...

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.apple.com/" on this server.
Reference #18.823919b8.1442033983.9cf1240e

I think Apple is setting up for the large volume they're about to receive. I'm not worried.

 

[d0hv]

Welp. Hopefully the store is back up so I can order my iPhone 6S Plus 16GB (I stream music). If not, looks like we'll be waiting a few months.

 

[fcs132]

Welp. Hopefully the store is back up so I can order my iPhone 6S Plus 16GB (I stream music). If not, looks like we'll be waiting a few months.

I always get a 64GB iPhone and only use like 15GBs, but a 16GB phone comes with like 9GBs

 

[alpo]

What time can we actually pre order?

12.01am Pacific, 3:01am East, 8:01am London, etc

 

[mariusignorello]

I always get a 64GB iPhone and only use like 15GBs, but a 16GB phone comes with like 9GBs

Nice profile pic

 

[musukosan]

Does anyone remember last year? Didn't the site have the same or similar error? I can't remember for sure, but I feel like there was an error for quite a long time after midnight last year. I ended up jumping over to the AT&T site to order my phone. It was after 1 am I think before I actually got my phone ordered. But then I came to Macrumors, assuming no one else could get on Apple.com and people were saying they ordered right away with no problems. It was weird.

EDIT: So I looked through old emails and test messages and saw that I couldn't get on Apple's site, but at 0:17 I was able to get to AT&T. Now I remember, the problem though, was that my order didn't actually get processed until after 1:30am! So I didn't get my phone until the next week. I remember totally regretting ordering from AT&T