Or they are getting a discount that more than offsets the tax difference. I am sure there are other reasons too.
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Or they are getting a discount that more than offsets the tax difference. I am sure there are other reasons too.
Still down for me.
On the bright side for Apple, they just got a ton of free page views. They should do this site down thing more often, it's better than advertising.
On the bright side for Apple, they just got a ton of free page views. They should do this site down thing more often, it's better than advertising.
I doubt the will lose that much money >_> People won't out right give up on buying an apple product all together because the online store is down for a day.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm not doing any more work until the store goes back up again. I'm not buying anything, but I feel it's fitting to give this event the reverence that it deserves.
No Store in UK
Just tried it a couple of times and its down here in Blighty.
Just got the standard Safari Failed to Open Page.
Just tried it a couple of times and its down here in Blighty.
Just got the standard Safari Failed to Open Page.
Still down in UK
It was up for a very short time about 15 minutes ago but now down (UK & US stores). As with others the Apple Store app on my iPhone seems fine.
It was up for a very short time about 15 minutes ago but now down (UK & US stores). As with others the Apple Store app on my iPhone seems fine.
Good to know that no one took advantage of this opportunity, oh wait...never mind
Best Buy Mexico giving away free Apple TV with Mac purchase as Apple Store goes offline worldwide
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Best Buy Mexico giving away free Apple TV with Mac purchase as Apple Store goes offline worldwide
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I've been trying to access https://support.apple.com/repairstatus all day to check a repair status but was getting an apple branded 404 error (followed the links on their own site)
HOWEVER, if I remove the S and make it http only, the status checker appears to work!
So as established other parts of Apples website may be malfunctioning!
HOWEVER, if I remove the S and make it http only, the status checker appears to work!
So as established other parts of Apples website may be malfunctioning!
Tried that and no luck
The fact that it is up for some could be as simple as some sort of load balancing or DNS crap going on. I could be completely wrong though. It's obviously something a little skewy on an impressively massive website.
How does http://17.149.156.10/ go?
That's a dumb way to move services; I highly doubt their adminisntrators are that dumb.
You bring the services online in the new location, update DNS, and wait for replication to occur (at least 24 hours). Once you see all connections are gone from the original system, you bring it down without issue.
Besides Apple uses caching services, so it's not their data center. I've noticed everything I've tried at akadns.net seems to be having issues. I think this is out of Apple's control.
Not necessarily. That URL times out too.
I don't see why not. Apple products are so popular right now they could raise the price a little and no one would ever notice. This would help even further with their bottom line and make tons of $$$.
