US Apple Store down....kind of at least

[Sean7512]

The U.S. Apple Store is not up to par right now, see screenshot....It seems to always go down or something when trying to buy something

 

[psycoswimmer]

Works fine for me! The main page (apple.com) took a little while to load, though.

 

[juanster]

Works fine for me! The main page (apple.com) took a little while to load, though.

same here

 

[Sean7512]

Awww, shucks....I wonder why it still won't load for me Its the only website doing this...maybe I'll try a restart

 

[murfle]

Apple uses a 3rd party company called akamai for hosting their images. Its basically a caching provider to make the site load faster.

Either the caching server you ended up getting pointed at was down, or you might have some software installed that blocks images from akamai (which I know is a more common problem on PCs, with programs like Kazaa lite).