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The Apple Store is down.....

by Nik Fletcher (RSS feed) on Jan 8th 2008 at 6:21AM

Thanks to all our tipsters who noticed that, indeed, the Apple Store is down at the moment all around the world. Unusual? Perhaps. It is after all the week before Macworld. But then again, it's a Tuesday morning, and we all know that Apple chooses this day of the week to jest with us....

We'll let you know if there's any changes online.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

1

Benjamin Colar said 10:57AM on 2-08-2008

The Store is back up and normal.

2

Jon said 6:58AM on 1-08-2008

Last year they upgraded the Mac Pros before Macworld (or it might have been NAB) because it was only a minor upgrade and presumably they didn't think it was worth mentioning at the show.

3

G said 8:29AM on 1-08-2008

On the flip side of that, something like the iTunes rental agreements could have been finalized yesterday, and now Steve has enough material to fill two hours on the 15th. So the lowest priority announcements get bumped. I'm waiting for a new Mac Pro, so I'll gladly welcome some "minor" news this morning.

Let the page reloads begin...

4

Adam said 7:12AM on 1-08-2008

I'm betting iPhone update! Woohoo!

5

LoganT said 7:13AM on 1-08-2008

Maybe it's new Nanos (higher capacity, more/different colors. The reason I think of that is because on Amazon they have a promotion for buying the Nano and you get 15 free songs until January 15th.

6

Victor Agreda Jr said 7:15AM on 1-08-2008

I'm betting on a plague of locusts in the server room, conjured by the Sony booth at CES

7

Thomas Landy said 7:23AM on 1-08-2008

looks like a worldwide update, Ireland store is down...why does apple want to take my money before MacWorld!

8

john said 7:28AM on 1-08-2008

Perhaps they are removing all of the Holidays stuff from the store?

9

mckoder said 8:14AM on 1-08-2008

So why do they have to take the store down when updating products? When was the last time you saw Amazon.com display a "We'll be back soon" message while updating products? Seems Apple store's technology isn't that good.

10

dombi said 8:18AM on 1-08-2008

You must be switcher. :-P
That is how Apple has been doing things for a long time....

11

G said 8:22AM on 1-08-2008

As for the reason "why," look what we're all doing right now.

12

DrWho said 8:35AM on 1-08-2008

Because it gets everybody's attention.

13

Think Adrian said 8:35AM on 1-08-2008

Was it you who gave the same comment last time AppleStore was down, or are you citing him/her? ;)

14

John said 8:46AM on 1-08-2008

Apple Introduces New Mac Pro
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/01/08macpro.html

Apple Introduces New Xserve
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/01/08macpro.html

15

Mark said 8:47AM on 1-08-2008

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl

Press releases went out for Mac Pro and Xserve upgrades.

16

jael said 8:53AM on 1-08-2008

In case you don`t Know already...

Apple today revised the Mac Pro and Xserves with a new architecture and the recently released Penryn Processors. The Mac Pro combines two 45-nm Quad-Core Xeon processors running up to 3.2GHz and up to 4TB of internal storage. The standard 8-core configuration starts at $2799.

So, enjoy yourselves Mac Pro users

17

James said 9:36AM on 1-08-2008

Where does it mention the Peryn processor, there still on Xeon, peryen from what I heard was suppose to be a new processor. Am i wrong? If so correct me, im new, lol.

18

Tony C said 9:01AM on 1-08-2008

Penryn FTW!!

19

Bob said 9:09AM on 1-08-2008

Where has the apple tv gone?

20

Think Adrian said 9:22AM on 1-08-2008

Either nowhere or discontinued or updated/upgraded. AppleStore is still down.

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