Apple store down: pink iPod nano and Canadian iPhone rumors swirl
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jan 22nd 2008 6:27AM
posted Jan 22nd 2008 6:27AM
Yup, it's down again... on a Tuesday... just hours before they announce their quarterly financials. We've been hearing about new pink iPod nanos all morning which have apparently been shipped to big box retail locations. Might we also see Penryn MacBook Pros and even a Canadian iPhone launch? What's that iPhone tab, pictured above, doing on the Canadian site anyway? Hang with us, we'll know shortly.
Update: Store is back, sorry Canada.
[Thanks, Adam H.]
Update: Store is back, sorry Canada.
[Thanks, Adam H.]
It's really interesting to see the iPhone tab on the Canadian site. It's not there when you are at the Apple homepage (Canada), but when you click the Store tab, you go to the page where it says the store is down but then it shows the iPhone tab there...and it still has "canadastore" in the URL.
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/canadastore.woa/
That is the direct link... Canada Store, but the iPhone tab is at the top of the page... very interesting.
But! It links to the US page for the iPhone. In fact, all the nav links on that temporary "We'll be back soon" page are to US pages, unlike the rest of the Canadian site. I'd say they're just using the same temporary "we'll be back soon" page on both country's sites. That's not to say the Canadian iPhone isn't coming, but I don't think the navigation bar should be used as much of a herald of what's to come.
i don't know why the iPhone tab is there but don't they usually announce the iPhone for a specific country a few months before being released....like in the USA and like in the UK/Europe
That's true, but then again... for the UK and the rest of Europe (not the US though) they did put the iPhone tab on the websites prior to actually releasing the product.
thats it!!
Or maybe the Apple Store's Mac OS X servers CRASHED, greeting the staff with BLACK SCREENS OF DEATH and KERNEL TEXT DUMPS as they arrived at work this morning.
Oh wait, that was me. AGAIN. Thanks, Apple. Your computers are so fucking reliable
It's probably copied HTML from the down U.S. Store page.
considering every link goes to .com and not .com/ca i think your probably right.
Yeah that's what I was thinking. Just a generic template.
Well the UK store isnt down as it usually is when a major new product is released, I am guessing that rules out Penryn macbook pros and possibly even the pink nano's as new colours usually release worldwide aswell don't they?
I am placing my chips nearer the Canadian iPhone space!
It may be... however ONLY the US and Canada online stores are currently offline, all other world wide sites are still online... so this must be a North America announcement/product.
The Australian store has no mention of the iPhone. I'm hoping our canuck cousins get it today! :)
Kevin
Has to be something local as european stores are open for business. So no iPods or MBPs?
I have a feeling with Rogers announcing the new data plans that was the last piece in bringing the iphone to Canada.
Good indication this is a Canada only deal. Look at the Apple Australia Store:
http://store.apple.com/133-622/WebObjects/australiastore
Still up an no iPhone tab, Japan etc. also. Hmmm what's with that?
ah us in Australia aint good enough for the iphone yet we always get things last and over-prices products due to it being bloody imported.
thank god i unlocked my iphone and brang it over and got it for the price in the USA!
when the hell are they launching the iphone in the middle east!
sigh
I can 100% guarantee it's a pink ipod nano
Can someone please help me. I just bought a new MBP this past weekend. If they release new ones what is Apples policy? Can I exchange my current MBP for a new one free of charge within 14 days or am I screwed.
Yes you have the 14 day grace period in case these things happen. I wouldn't count on a new MBP though.
Umm...the Macbook Pro is a better computer than the Air! :)
What kind of rubbish company has to take down an entire site just to update a few pages?
Still, at least Engadget is on hand to dutifully record and journal the 'event.'
The kind of rubbish company that are fantastic at PR and generate news stories on blogs such as this because the store is closed.
It's called free advertising.
Every time they take down the stores, hundreds of bloggers, journalists and Digg users let the world know.
Go get another Zune tattoo!
@John Shillabeer: Well that pretty much reflects bad on both apple and the shee... I mean bloggers.
could also be leopard 10.5.2 on dvd and new apple remotes
could it be pink ipods?
could this be a leak @ an australian store?
http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/4795d9eb0c78b39c2740c0a87f9c07b4/Product/View/A3852
Look at the search results in the apple Canada site:
http://www.apple.com/ca/search/?q=iphone
Here's proof the iphone has just hit canada from the search link above:
http://www.apple.com/ca/support/iphone/
support for iphone in canada....oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iphone in middle east!
when?! when?! when?!
Actually the UK store is down as well
No it isn't....
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore
The UK Store is up and running. I've gone to each individual store... they are all up and running except for the United States and Canada stores.
No, it's not:
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore
I'm on the UK site now :-/
And on the iphone support issue, you can goto www.apple.com/*anytwoletters*/support/iphone and the site redirects to Apples US iphone support page, i tried it with au
guess all we can do is speculate until its back online!
who the f**k wants a pink ipod???
People with which you may not be acquainted ... females!
Mrs Vanillacide loves pink iPods.
buy the red one then...that would be nicer of you from the charity point of view too...geeee...women...
"I want pink I want pink! " pff lame...the only pink worth mentioning is the singer and yours ;-)
come on hate me!hehe
My bad I didn't go to the UK store, I thought I did!
Well, the Apple's Japan store is still up, and is showing no evidence for an iPhone tab. So...
It's only the pink nano. I got a message at work about it yesterday (I work in a computer shop in the UK)
Why whenever I see that 'we'll be back soon' post-it, do I imagine lots of little Apple cyber elfs pushing carts around and stocking shelves with iPhones and such.
For the love of god, please let it be a pink iPhone, with matching dock and charger. Please! PLEASE!! PLLLEEEAAASE!!!!!
Office 2008 for Mac!
Stores in Europe ain't down. No MacBooks, no pink iPod, I reckon..
New ipods!
The Italian store is up and running:
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/italystore/
The page could just be a global placeholder like the aspnet app_offline.html feature (cuts off service and displays a custom message for everyone).
Apple runs IIS?
No, something similiar to that feature in IIS
My question, why do they take a whole friggin store down to add new products? Isnt their store application powerful enough to have products in draft mode and when ready, release it to a date specified?
Mexico's store is down and same US url with iphone tab..
Gosh! It's really exciting getting minute by minute updates from users about what Apple websites are open around the world!
Imagine? A website! That's online!
Terrific stuff folks.
its back up... new pink ipods
Pink iPod that's it, just checked and it's re-opened
It is OPEN :)
No iPhone for the Canadians.
I envy you Canadians - having tangible evidence of the coming of the iPhone. Whilst in Australia, we're still clueless as to whether Apple has even initiated talks with local carriers.
Honestly, I wish the Oz Apple store was down too... feel kind of left ouut.
And Apple's "innovation of the week" is... the iPod nano in pink!
The store's back up: pinks nanos in the U.S.
Get a life !!
Apple TV up to $249 and $349 respectively. Same model number as before. I bought one for $329 on the 15th. Why the $20 bump....and why does it go against what Steve J. presented at Macworld.
Okay. They corrected it. Back to $229 and $329.
Iphone will be released in Belgium, there is a hidden link in the apple store !!
a 64G version!
The pink ipod nano is on the Canadian site, but no iPhone, nor the iPhone tab.
"Store is back, sorry Canada"
Quel surprise.
Short of Apple buying Rogers Wireless (or their own bandwidth)the lack of a supported iPhone service in Canada is not a bygone conclusion.
Ted Rogers' reputation for money grubbing, squeezing every possible penny from users, doing what he wants regardless and an ego as big as all outdoors must be like looking in a mirror for Steve Jobs. Discussions between these two must be a real hoot. Small wonder then still no iPhone in Canada.
Nothing in Rogers wireless plans come anywhere close to the AT&T Plans and frankly, I doubt the now rather faded cache of the iPhone (and even the ability to be the only distributor in Canada) is enough to prise Rogers fingers from your wallet or to concede some profitability to Apple.
There will never be a Rogers iphone in Canada, at least this generation...
Data rate issues....Rogers currently isn't ready to offer unlimited data at the rates Apple wants, has in the US
Revenue sharing....Rogers will never agree to share plan revenue with Apple
Google issues and branding....the iphone is an Apple and Google branded product. Rogers has an exclusive deal with yahoo in canada for web, mail and search....the contact probably has a clause indicating that rogers cannot sell a handset with all those Google aps and branding on it...and do you think Apple would remove them just for one country and carrier. Rogers is also very specific about having the look and feel of the menus and interfaces in all their phones rogers branded...something apple has refused to do...
all you Canadian iphone fanboys just give it up....perhaps the 3g iphone might show up here next year...
Hi.
I suppose this is somewhat off topic, but I don't know where else to ask it.
Does anyone know if it is still possible to buy a retail iPhone from the US and unlock it for use in Canada?
My dad is in NYC this week, and I've been seriously considering asking him to pick one up for me since I no longer feel like waiting for an official Canadian release.
But I've heard bad things about the latest firmware.
Seriously... Why does Engadget list every thing Apple does.. theres other companies out there... Im sure im not alone when i say its getting old... If we wanted to watch every move Apple made, we'd read TUAW. I seriously want some answers... Sure I could skip over it, but thats not the point... Arent there any tech blogs that arent stuck on Jobs' nuts? All im asking is that you not put apple above other companies... You dont report when Sony's ordering site is down, or MS, or HTC, or anyone else for that matter. I love my xbox and you even reported a little heavy on the live outages (why? it seems to me that it created a stir of fanboy comments)... Who the heck at Engadget decides what is to be published? Not everyone that comes here even cares about apple that much. Make it fair... This used to be a good blog, now it seems like its more of a traffic/flame bate Microsoft v. Apple site with good tech news included. The quality is lacking Ryan, please do something. (I dont want to start flame wars, I just wanted to say it in an open forum) I understand that in San Francisco its more artsy and Apple is king, but people from all over the world come here. I doubt Rojas wanted bias and flamewars (then again he is a businessman, but a genius nontheless). Ryan, please... enough is enough...
Rogers hasn't agreed to carry the iPhone yet. They are waiting for the 3G version...