I think that home page would be down as well if something big was to occur. If pictures update on store for some thing big, wouldn't home page also be down for picture updates?
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No, that's not how they do it. Once the store comes back up, they update the product pages immediately. Also, sometimes you can pick up what is being updated since the product pages go a bit wonky as they are being updated, just before the store comes back up. The product pages have not been shut down since I've been following the Mac world.
Yeah, I am thinking that this is not a product update, there must be something majorly wrong. The store has essentially been down all day for the asia pacific region, frustrating buyers who, surprisingly, may not be waiting for new hardware. Not a smart business move.
Oh I get it. I am in market for new iMac, need to sell this old PC to something more modern.
I honestly don't remember updates taking this long even from one of his Jobsness' old Macworld keynotes.
Oh I get it. I am in market for new iMac, need to sell this old PC to something more modern.
In fact, now that I think about it, sometimes the product pages take a while to catch up. I think it was last year for the iMac update in May, where the store came back up with the new iMacs, but the iMac specifications page in the product pages had not been updated yet.
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Yes. I recall normally the store would be down for about 90 minutes to 2 hours. Then again, it usually felt like someone did it too early and the configuration pages would be broken for the next 30 minutes after the store was reopened. Maybe they are trying to avoid that this time?
6 hours by now
I have work in the morning so I need to go sleep.
I will find out in the morning, credit card in hand!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think if any hardware is revealed today it will be the Mac Mini. It will give us a sneak peak at what hardware we can expect on other new Macs (USB3, Ivy Bridge). This will allow Apple to save the big reveal of the Retina display on the MacBook Pro and iMac for WWDC.
I actually hope it won't be a product update. Big updates such as retina, thinner form factor (MacBook Pro) would probably warrant a WWDC announcement. If they updated the product now, it means that the refreshed components weren't worth a full-blown WWDC introduction.
Except that the Ivy Bridge mobile chips that the mini uses have not been officially released by Intel yet. A Mac Pro refresh would make more sense and then the big announcement of retina stuff at WWDC.
No, I don't lie. ChromeAutoreload Extension with 5seconds refresh timer ... it was online, and there were no new 'new-badges' (just the ones like before with the ipad ..).
I really wish I would .. believe me.
May be that means nothing ... there can still be updates under way. But I didn't believed it from the beginning ...