Apple's Online Stores Mysteriously Offline

[Ryth]

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

Doesn't mean anything. They'll just come back later and buy whatever they wanted.

It's not like 6.6 million vanishes never to return. It's pushed to a later time in the day.

Kinda meaningless comment.

 

[drewisanapple]

Anonymous.

If it was, then we'd have heard them boasting by now.

 

[conigs]

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

While an interesting statistic, it assumes people who were going to make a purchase during the down time will no longer make that purchase. It seems more likely that the hours after the store comes back online will make up for the down time.

 

[Nomadski]

Wierd, not had a problem accessing UK nor US Apple website here. Im in the UK.

EDIT: Mybad, the front page loads, but not the store.

 

[ouimetnick]

Hope no CC info is stolen!

 

[futbalguy]

It seems to be working fine now. Doesn't look like anything has been updated.

I still cant get into the store.

 

[TimUSCA]

Store is already back up.

 

[kavika411]

second generation Apple Hi-Fi

 

[redbotsoftware]

It's back and nothings changed.

 

[mkjj]

UK and US still down for me

 

[troop231]

It seems to be working fine now. Doesn't look like anything has been updated.

 

[Apple...]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

So Apple is not a perfect company.

Hey, buddy. Look at my signature.

 

[primalman]

I can get to the regular store on my iPod, just not on any Mac.

 

[Sokratesagogo]

I for one welcome our new alien overlords

 

[ARandomFellow]

Back Up...

The site is up for me. Yeesh. Hard to believe a few minutes of downtime is news. lol

 

[New Account]

The front page (not the store) has crashed for me a couple of times now, both on the international and local website.

 

[AppleDroid]

Won't even load the page where I'm at in the US. Is this OH NO HAXORS!?

 

[thejoshhoward]

Loads just fine for me.

 

[ovrlrd]

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

Doesn't work like that, since sales are not at a constant rate 24 hours a day.

Either way it hurts their sales, but not as much as you would think.

 

[apolloa]

Lets hope everyones details from the app store haven't being stolen, you know, just for Lolz!!!

A mark down? I'm sorry, have I offended a member of the LOLZ group? Or are you not keeping up current events and all the companies that have been hacked and had user details stolen? Or are you living in a reality where that sort of thing never happens?

 

[Apple...]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

The site is up for me. Yeesh. Hard to believe a few minutes of downtime is news. lol

It has been more than a few HOURS.

 

[CplBadboy]

The store IS still down. Think people are confusing the loading of the home page loading for the actual store working. Which it isnt. Somethings gone right tits up!

 

[slicecom]

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

"I was going to buy a Mac, but the Apple online store is temporarily down, so I'll buy a PC instead."

 

[Kar98]

Host your online store content on Amazon.
Sue Amazon for their app store.
Online store not available anymore.
Well, ****.

 

[Fritzy]

Was Mysteriously really necessary in the title?