Filed under: Retail, Other Events, Apple
The Apple Store is down

Ah, the delicate dance that is the few hours before a Stevenote. Apple's web elves are not only busy updating the iTunes Store, it would seem that are updating Apple's online store as well (and not just in the US, we have reports that the Apple store in several countries).
This just builds the excitement, doesn't it?
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Stealth43 said 11:35AM on 9-12-2006
http://phobos.apple.com/showtime/showtime.html
nuff said...maybe you called that name change correctly...
here we go again/
;P
evaD
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Randy said 11:35AM on 9-12-2006
Have credit card in hand ready to spend. Bring it on.
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nam3 said 11:37AM on 9-12-2006
just had pointed it out to the engadget team...
same here in france...
just please give (or at least sell) me a 12" MacBook Pro...
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Daniel Bahl said 11:37AM on 9-12-2006
#2 ROFL - me to :)
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Stealth43 said 11:40AM on 9-12-2006
HAH! I'll be damned! My url^^^^ just disappeared off the face of the earth. Hit refresh, and I got a 404 error...before the text simply read:
It's Showtime
The iTunes Store is being updated
ad astra per ardua...
evaD
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Pedro said 11:40AM on 9-12-2006
this can only mean one thing... new products at the "showtime" event.
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G. Curt Fiedler said 11:41AM on 9-12-2006
BTW - Same here in Japan
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G. Curt Fiedler said 11:41AM on 9-12-2006
Within the HOUR? Does that mean we get something posted there before the press event (which starts in 1.5 hours)?
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Sinkin Fast said 11:45AM on 9-12-2006
Is there any live blog coverage from the event like MWSF? TUAW/Engadget?
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Marcelo said 11:51AM on 9-12-2006
Live updating of the keynote via AJAX, no refreshing needed:
http://www.macrumorslive.com/
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Mat said 11:51AM on 9-12-2006
look at:
http://www.apple.com/la/quicktime/
lokk at the bottom left: Videos de itunes (itunes videos) with movie links (tranporter 2, Red eye...)
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Alasdair Allan said 11:53AM on 9-12-2006
The UK store is also down. So we know that we're looking at new hardware announcement as well as the Movie Store, maybe the leaked agenda is right after all?
http://www.babilim.co.uk/blog/2006/09/apple-store-is-down.html
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greggoconnell.com said 11:55AM on 9-12-2006
Thank God for living on the west coast we only have to wait til 10:00 am :)
yipppeeeee!
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Gandhi said 11:58AM on 9-12-2006
Engadget will provide coverage as well. They did a great job for WWDC '06.
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Mitch said 12:00PM on 9-12-2006
haha greggoconnell is right. Living here in the stupid midwest with stupid NYC time and stupid wrong time zone (I live in indiana... we just switched to Eastern this summer).
I have to wait until 1pm :( :( :(
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Radu Dutzan said 12:00PM on 9-12-2006
Engadget will also be having a live coverage. The good thing about Engadget's coverage is that they take a lot of pictures. You may want to keep MacRumorsLive on one tab and Engadget's post on the other, as I always do.
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J said 12:04PM on 9-12-2006
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/sep_2006/event/index.html
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Nick said 12:08PM on 9-12-2006
1pm? I'm up and its just past 2am here...less than an hour to go. Good thing I have nothing to do tomorrow (except maybe a visit to an Apple store. Oh wait, it's Australia, we get nothing on time!)
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Alex Stuart said 12:10PM on 9-12-2006
Ah, another fellow Aussie, only I have work at 6am...Lets hope this conference is worth it :)
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falleri said 12:29PM on 9-12-2006
Down in the Netherlands too. I hope they'll have something good for me :)
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