Apple Store down

How very odd, the Apple Store is down. We usually see this when Apple is introducing a new product but given the fact that Macworld is less than 2 weeks away, and it is a holiday weekend that seems unlikely.
It is probably just routine maintenance, or the new iPhone.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
timothy said 12:51PM on 12-30-2005
Odd time for maintenance, don't you think? I wouldn't pull down a store site at 12 o'clock CST. Think of how many people are sitting at there desks checking out the store to buy something right now, or trying to I should say.
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Callum said 12:56PM on 12-30-2005
I just came... new intel logo- store closed. Oh my.
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deoxymoron said 1:06PM on 12-30-2005
back up...
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stephen said 1:14PM on 12-30-2005
aw, nothing new! its up again, and nothing changed! :(
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Tim said 1:33PM on 12-30-2005
It appears they might've changed the Education store, as there's a "custom" store for the university I'm going to attend. That wasn't there a few days ago.
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Dustin said 1:55PM on 12-30-2005
You guys are trying too hard.
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John Laur said 2:34PM on 12-30-2005
Boo, hiss. Because of the holiday weekend it's likely this is the best time to roll out a code update to the store and still have a few hours to squash any showstoppers before all the developers take off for vacation.
At least it won't take them 4 days to get it back up like Weblogs, Inc. comments. Ever heard of staging servers, guys?
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Josh said 3:14PM on 12-30-2005
The fact is the whole site crashed. I was shopping on it trying to get a big order in when pagest stopped loading and database errors appeared. I called my Apple rep and he was surprised the store was behaving badly. About 5 minutes after he said he'd contact the online store people, the site switched to say it was closed. For about 30 minutes before that the site was seriously ill. I had to use CDW to make my shopping list to submit it to my apple rep because the Apple store was down.
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Debbie Ripps said 4:20PM on 12-30-2005
Must be your fault then Josh. That big order got the site all excited and overloaded?? Oh well....yes we are always playing detective with apple because they want it that way...everything is top secret until announced.
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Lee said 5:12PM on 12-30-2005
Must have been an update for the coming Leap Second.
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Alex Achucarro said 5:38PM on 12-30-2005
The UK LCD screens (top two) have come down!
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yoharryo said 8:23PM on 12-30-2005
goddam, I wish you would stop joking about the iPhone....
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george said 4:36PM on 1-01-2006
it was down for maintainance. i bought an M-Audio Ozone a few hours before it went down. the store's site was lagging real bad. i could not log in to track my shippment. i called apple and they said it was just maintanance on the servers and thats why it was lagging bad
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