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Apple's Online Stores Mysteriously Offline

applescruff1 said:
quite true. If they just raised everything $25 it would be a big boost to the bottom line. I'll bet they's still sell 20 million iphones even if they raised the price to $1000. Now that would really help the bottom line. They should really test the consumers limits. ;)
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Steviejobz said:
If Apple does 50% of its sales online, every hour the store is down is costing the company $6.6 million based on last qtr sales
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Someone pass me a facepalm image!?
You are assuming that people who intended to buy something, don't return once the store is back up. So long as it isn't down for long (and it wasn't) then Apple lose next to nothing.
 
I get a giant Oops! when accessing the store. I was finally going to splurge and get a mini today. But now I can't.

However, since there is no other possible way to acquire an Apple Mac mini, the store being down means I have no choice but to wait. It's not like I can go buy it elsewhere, and it's not like anything else from a competitor fits the bill.
 
One thing that actually did change...

...in the last day, but I'm not 100% sure it happened during the downtime today (and it shouldn't take 2 hours to fix it)... Anyway the text for the Apple Wireless keyboard got updated to "Mission Control and Launchpad" instead of "Exposé and Dashboard". The picture of the keyboard was changed a while ago but the text didn't match for quite a some time...
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8L1 Safari/6533.18.5)

They added a pop-up option to download an iOS app for the online Apple Store.... That's finally started working for me when I go there :)
 
I'm in the UK and can't access any apple online store either UK or US based, I can however access the US and UK stores via a US based VPN. Whats that all about?
 
afd said:
I'm in the UK and can't access any apple online store either UK or US based, I can however access the US and UK stores via a US based VPN. Whats that all about?
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Same here. I'm on O2 home broadband. Works fine on my iPhone which is also on O2.

My guess is that the home broadband part of O2 hasn't updated their DNS servers or something yet.

Might be the same for other UK ISP's

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I didn't know the site was down earlier but I just went to it because I am seriously thinking about ordering a Macbook Pro. I clicked on the 15 in. macbook pro and the site is saying its unavailable. I thought that was odd and the first time I ever saw the site say that. So I closed out and went back in, now its says the 13 in is unavailable but now the 15 in. is available to order. So...:confused:
 
Really disliked that this article got so much attention. Tried to become the next Sony incident. People giving an update about the webpage and their own computer problems every second. Comical they treated this as if it was the worst thing to happen. This what you fellas earn: So unmanly...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zFBmvvK734
 
I couldn't get MacRumors to load despite repeated attempts. Other websites, including a local publisher's site were inaccessible (Safari couldn't connect with the servers). Something odd was definitely going on because some other websites were still available to me, including Apple UK, which is where I'm based.

At first I thought it was my router malfunctioning until I saw that I had access to some sites and not others.

This was Wednesday evening. All seems fine now (Thursday morning).

Still none the wiser.
 
new imac with no optical media,15" macbook air,mac mini size of apple tv,apple employee discount for all....ok ok one can dream..it's late ;-)
 
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