Apple Store page goes down, iWork '09 mention goes up
By Nilay Patel 
posted January 6th 2009 10:14AM
posted January 6th 2009 10:14AM
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How can it be a top download if... no one has downloaded it yet?
Because it was renamed from iWork to iWork 09 just before the store went down.
Makes you feel like you are running behind on MILLIONS of other users immediately... Must... Download... To... Keep... Up ... Can't... Resist...
more like iDontWork if you can't download it
Phew, at least we have some confirmation on iWork 09!
Looking forward to it. Much better than Office:Mac, but not as good as Office on Windows. If Pages had an equation editor, I'd delete Office 2008 from my Mac in a flash.
TexLive contains a program called LaTeXitT that fullfills this purpose.
Makes me wonder how the "Top Downloads" are actually calculated. Maybe it should say "Featured Downloads."
Its easy how they calculate this Apple products first throw in one non apple product then more Apple products then everybody else. I doubt quicktime is the second highest download unless they calculating also when it comes with itunes and other software.
MEH!
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Flame ON!
OMFG ARE YOU NOT LIKE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT APPLE PRODUCTS TODAY?!?!?! Steve Jobs is going to haunt your nightmares! REPENT and purchase an overpriced Macbook Pro, NOW!
Hehe. I'm actually with you on the iWork. I prefer OpenOffice.
I am however interested in what they do with the 17" MBP and if they come out with a 30" version of that LED backlit LCD with the MB/MBP charging cable.
Meh isn't really how I would describe it. Engadget's Macworld coverage reminds me more of this.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/23/le-twittre/
Definitely a twitter shitter.....
Talk about Apple's freedom to decide what to put as a Top Download...
Oh well, since we ALL (I hope) know it's still NOT out there, we shall see what the Keynote will bring us.
i'd be more excited about iSlack '09. or iRelax '09.
iSee what you did there.
iSee what you did there.
iPhone 4G? ;)
That wont be out no time soon, has the LTE specs even been finalized.
GRR! that was supposed to be @ OMGizzle!
It's absurd that a company like Apple has to take their entire online store down just to perform a few updates. I am convinced it is done deliberately to "build anticipation" for the new products, rather than any technical reason.
Exactly why they do it.
you sir, are as sharp as a bowling ball
And Engadget bites every time :)
Thanks for joining us, scjessey.
ljm, he is right. You shouldn't have to bring your entire online infrastructure down to do one thing. Should be modular. Apple just does this to build suspense.
no shit, thats like saying companies advertise to help spread the word about their product
@Gordy:
I hope by "joining us", you don't mean to suggest that I have purchased (or intend to purchase) anything from Apple? That would not be the case, I can assure you. I like to control my own destiny, rather than have it dictated by Steve Jobs and his overpriced slickware.
It drives me absolutely insane that Apple still hasn't fixed the HTML on their placeholder page. For YEARS they've had that post it note image in there and they're incorrectly skewing it by putting a width in the HTML. Sigh.
My frustrations exactly, Brian B! With shoddy HTML coding like that, I think we can expect Apple to fold any day now.
Thanks for the notice, sharpEye! Never noticed that. Will be funny to see for how many years it will stay like this!
Maybe there making iWork free and that's why its on the download page, highly doubt it but its a possibility
Seriously why the fuck is this "news?"
The headline should read "Apple still has to take entire store offline to update products, has yet to upgrade to better e-commerce server"
I'm an Apple user but damn this gets annoying.
If they only took down the pages to which items would be updated, there wouldn't be much of a surprise, no?
The suspense is killing me!
Good point.
*Voice of the Joker* And here we go........
I like the keynotes, I hope something good comes from this. A GOOD Mac Mini that is affordable, would be something I would save for. This will be interesting with out Steve.
So?
It says iWorks 09 is in the top downloads, because it uses the downloads listing from iWorks 08. =]
Still no copy paste, huh?
iHate this comment system...
Blah, yawn, snigzy snikty, boing zip boiint ti . Bring me a shrubbery!!!! a nice one!
...with the little white picket fences!
And a herring.
I'm going to be depressed if I dont hear about copy/paste or push today. More about copy/paste, but come on, push was supposed to be out a LONG time ago
Still no copy paste, huh?
Same old apple curious to see what they are to unveil this time though
who cres if the store goes down for a little, were all of you waiting until this morning to buy something? haa
Good think I bought my three new Mac Minis and copies of iWork for each before the online store went down. Phew! That was a close one, eh?
mery good think.
It's good luck you just bought out of date software? ;)
Woolworth's also down!
http://www.woolworths.co.uk/
Although this one ain't coming back up.
That sir, was fantastic. Thanks for the laugh. :)
How come there has been no mention of a 32GB iPhone? Surely that is on the cards?