Apple store is down
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jul 17th 2007 6:45AM
posted Jul 17th 2007 6:45AM
That's right, the US and Canadian Apple stores are down. However, other international sites are still up. Of course, any outage usually means they'll return with new product. So get the product juices churning and sound off with your best bets in the comments below. Then check back in an hour or two when we'll know for sure.Update: Er... it's back without any noticeable updates. We'll keep digging but this looks like a non-event.
[Thanks, Pavel S. and everybody who sent this in]
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And if it was simple site maintenance, what then, oh purveyors of the hype?
Of course you could be right. But... it's tuesday, it's almost 7am new york, and Apple is due for refreshes throughout their product lineup. To memory, the site has gone down only once in the last year to return without product and that was on the 11th when the site returned with a new look and feel in support of the iPhone launch and Leopard.
Thomas
Point ceded, Thomas.
160 gig AppleTV ....thats all I see thats new.
What Thomas said wasn't even true, but OK. I guess if you don't know better.
Silly rabbit. Tricks are for kids!
It was simple site maintenance, oh purveyors of the hype. :\
iPods, please !!!
highly doubt it, and highly wouldn't be possible without the announcement coming out of Mr. Jobs own mouth.
God, I will go to church. I will spread your word. I will die on a cross. I may even put your music on it- if there is a new iPod.
Let's hope new ipods!
I realised today that I've had mine for a little over a year and a half. Didn't realize the 5G had been out that long
perhaps a new AQD lineup or new iMac's ... please be both
I'm betting on those new iMacs. Overpriced and ugly :(
It's 2007. Should they not be capable of launching a new product in the store without taking the whole thing down for hours.
Of course they can! But it wouldn't be as exciting would it? :)
This is just for us.. :) They want excitement
Of course, but this way they can build up some last minute hype in advance. Lord knows, everybody who has replied here is wondering "what could it be?" and is paying attention. That's what Jobso wants.
Oh yes, sorry. I forgot about the free publicity we all give them.
I think it's new iMice, or possibly a 100GB iPood.
you're an ipoo'ed
That's an appropriate comment for someone called "skidz"
/sarcasm
;)
i wee'd a little also...
You never know, maybe they bought Avid or Adobe or something useful....or are going to add Ubuntu as an option.
If Apple buys adobe, I'm changing professions. Adobe's software is already expensive enough.
It should be them announcing that anyone who buys a mac now gets a coupon for a free upgrade to Leopard when it comes out.
$249 iPhone! ;)
Its probably just AppleCare for the Iphones. Maybe and upgraded Imac. I wish it were a new mac mini.
A new Mighty Mouse.
i.don't care
They are going to distribute OLPC's with native OS X support...
iPriborchik! :)))
nu-nu.
Leopard preorder?
New iMac for sure
new macbooks!! please *^^*
mac pro price reduction.
iMac + iLife + iWork
What can it be?
I just want to know what the hell we are all doing up so early! Don't have to be to work for another 3 hours! Maybe I can put this Nike+ stuff to use, see you guys on the streets of NYC!
There are different time zones in the world, eh?
(as you may have guessed, i'm in a Canadian one)
Does anyone remember what happened on this day 5 years ago? Yes, it was Macworld NY. And they announced the following:
Apple Unveils 17-inch Flat Screen iMac
Apple Introduces iSync
Apple Introduces iCal
Apple Unveils New iPods
Apple Announces iTunes 3
Apple Introduces “Jaguar,” the Next Major Release of Mac OS X
Epson, HP & Lexmark Support Apple’s Rendezvous Technology
Apple Announces Mac OS X “Jaguar” Server, World’s Easiest-to-Manage UNIX-Based Server Software (Images)
Apple Launches .Mac
Apple to Open Its First Retail Store in New York City
Maybe this is some sort of 5 year anniversary or something, or I'm looking into this too much :D
I don't see it being anything of major excitement. Anything "revolutionary" would need a keynote or speech of some sought.
Mac mini refresh, or maybe the cinema displays.
Yeah, I tend to agree. But if it's hardware related, why not all Apple stores?
New ipod.
I'd just love a 6th Gen iPod. Available in the UK too xP
12" MacBook Pro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, who is just sitting there hitting the refresh button?
1. (This means I am, follow suit!)
Guilty.
how about Bluetooth iPhone Headset release?
@ Gabe -- 2. Me too!!
Hell, while we're waiting I'll go out on a limb.
Revamped .Mac with Google integration. After all, it's a US / Canada update only.
Remember this: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/11/apples-mac-getting-a-google-overhaul/
Thomas
Maybe they went down to ship my Macbook Pro? Ordered one month ago, still no Macbook.....
iPhone update...
New iLife. This seems to be the only "major" thing that can be updated without Jobs himself talking about it. If that is not the case, then I think we will see some other "minor" updates (faster processors on some models and so on).
I only hope, for the ones who bought it, that Apple is not releasing an "update" to the iPhone as they did with the AppleTV (update just a week or two after release)....
Like a 10 or 15 Gb iPhone :-)
Usually when Apple only takes US and Canada stores down, they release some performance upgrade, that gets then released worldwide not much time after that.
PS- Swiss store is up and running fine. France as well
Store is back up and doesn't look like anything changed. Could have just been maintenance.
Yea, no change that I can see. :(
Added Bluetooth headset preorder
I say maintenance. Oh well.
*goes back to bed*
But still:
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9745711-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The new product the iPhone bluetooth headset. Now available for order. That wasn't on the store previously, correct? Was hoping to see what the iMac was going to look like.
Sweet they just released an new 3" usb cable !
;)
New MacTv 160GB for 399.00
larger Apple TV hard drive, 160 gb
...the all new i-Apple - it's an apple with a firewire cable shoved into it... I don't know what it's for, but OMG I want 10 of 'em!
Slow news day?
wow... what an awesome comment!!!! I've never heard anyone say that before!!!! You are SO WITTY!!!!!!!
Actually, it was a question old bean.
Store is up, and Nothing new :(
iPoodle tamagotchi's please.
The 160GB harddrive on the Apple TV was there before. Don't remember when it was released but it's been there a few weeks.
Oh wow, I think they released a phone
Although site is back up with nothing noticalble, Macworld is too far away to say "Macworld is coming up" in regards to Apple releases. Both the iPod Nano and iPod Video were announced and released in September '05. Apple TV was announced in September '06 well before it's ship date.
Lately Apple's been stepping away from the Macworld/WWDC formula for announcing and releasing new products.
Today wasn't one of those days. I doubt they'd do anything big without a press event...
They updated the education store. Before you couldn't order the iphone directly from there, but now you can. No discount though :(
Why do they always take the site down to add updates? I mean, its not like they can't get them ready on a development server and then just flip a switch to get them into production.
At most the site should go down for a couple minutes until they switch the databases over, not hours. What kind of incompetent boobs do they have over there running their servers anyway?
Because it gets hysterical (and free) press from morons like iEngadget and iGizmodo, that's why.
There's a lesson here, you Apple-obsessed morons.
Don't react to something until AFTER SOMETHING ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
What a complete non-story waste of time and space.....
What do you mean, "slow news day"? They do this EVERY time the Apple store is down, slow day or not.
Hold the front page! Start wildly speculating now! Apple's website is down!
C'mon fellas, this Apple fanboy stuff is getting out of control now. Why not give us news when *you've actually got some* rather than filling up your pages with non-stories like this?
PS Why don't you spend less time trying to force your head up Apple's a$$ and instead report something like, oh, I don't know, the new PSP attachment which lets Japanese owners watch digital TV on their handheld.
You know, tech news.
How much are Apple paying you guys, by the way?
the system is down..the system is down. doo doo de doo doo..
i don't know why that head line made me thing of strongbad.
ITunes 7.3.1 is up
One thing I noticed is that on the corporate apple store site for employee discounts, is that the banner for the iPhone doesn't direct you to go to the main apple store site to buy the iPhone. Instead you now can buy it on the corporate apple store set for employees discounts, however the iphone has retained it's retail pricing-no corporate employee (non-Apple employee)discounts yet.
Slow news day?
i was hoping for the compact macbook pro. oh well.
the day is still long.
If the site goes down whenever they add new products, they need to hire new web developers, pronto! (And get a new CMS).
Wow, Apple reduced all of the Canadian Apple store prices in line with the US to Canadian dollar exchange rate (95c US). MacPro was $2799, is now $2629!!!
Ooops, just my imagination.....
Wow... News on a website going down? I've never heard of that happening! Front page material!
Perhaps instead of causing all of this hype for nothing and something so dumb, wait until after the store is up and post about it... Keep an eye on it perhaps, but don't post about it when it's NOT news...
OMG maybe a new Apple product! Seriously guys, do you hurry to make a post when the Dell store goes offline because a new product might come up, or would you more rationally wait until there was actually something to talk about? A lot of claims have been made about Engadget's Apple obsession and you're not doing your best to make it appear otherwise.