Apple Store Down

[Hellhammer]

For the iPod event the other week it went down a couple of hours before the keynote started and came back up just after it finished. We've had similar downtime for most other keynotes in recent years.

The usual Tuesday updates usually go down about 11:30 GMT and come back up around 13:30. I know this because the new stuff always comes out just after my lunch break has finished.

But they added iTunes 9, could that make difference? Usually updates aren't on Sundays and don't take over 4 hours....

 

[Stuart in Oz]

Rather annoying - I just went online to get an iPod touch for my mother and... it's offline.

Guess I'll have to wait for tomorrow morning instead. This has totally ruined my life.

 

[SwiftLives]

99% of the time, product releases are on Tuesdays. (Unless there's a Monday holiday that week). They wouldn't update products on a weekend because Apple's PR department doesn't work weekends.

Unless the iMac update is more than a speed boost and a price drop, then we won't be seeing a media event for it. They'll be announced via press release.

 

[OllyW]

But they added iTunes 9, could that make difference? Usually updates aren't on Sundays and don't take over 4 hours....

Sunday downtime has always been down to maintenance.

 

[gan6660]

I dont know why they would do matenance when they just updated it last week?

 

[puffnstuff]

$10 price drop on the iPod nano and touch is my guess since that is what it is selling for at other retailers

 

[Hellhammer]

Sunday downtime has always been down to maintenance.

Sorry if my post was misleading, I meant no product updates on Sundays, btu maintance are usually on Sundays, sorry.

 

[MacFanUK]

UK store still down. How long does it 'maintenance' usually take?

 

[Hellhammer]

UK store still down. How long does it 'maintenance' usually take?

Not long, unless they have problems. Maybe something like an hour. I agree, it's strange that it's been down so long

 

[djrod]

Spanish store just opened now!

http://store.apple.com/es

 

[MacFanUK]

Store back online.....nothing new

 

[codenamecueball]

Not long, unless they have problems. Maybe something like an hour. I agree, it's strange that it's been down so long

Its back.

Edit: AH YAH BEAT MEH!

 

[superatombomb]

damn, nothing new

that's disappointing

 

[OllyW]

Store back online.....nothing new

And you are surprised?

 

[bartelby]

And you are surprised?

And they'll all be surprised again after the next Sunday maintenance...

 

[tjcampbell]

Different refurbs are listed compared to yesterday.

 

[OllyW]

Different refurbs are listed compared to yesterday.

Refurbs are updated every night around midnight (in the UK) without the store going down.

 

[Buzz Bumble]

If they ran in on Windows, they could do maintenance while its online.

:runs:

If the Apple Store ran on Windows, then it would be working ONLY on Sundays for a few hours, if you're lucky, and offline for the rest of the week for "maintenance" (aka malware removal, rebooting, re-installing, finding which computer crashed the system just because a mouse was unplugged for cleaning and plugged in again, etc.).


These days there should be no reason at all to take an entire website down for regular "maintenence", nor when simply adding products to a webstore, nor even for a complete redesign of the website.

 

[Target362]

If the Apple Store ran on Windows, then it would be working ONLY on Sundays for a few hours, if you're lucky, and offline for the rest of the week for "maintenance" (aka malware removal, rebooting, re-installing, finding which computer crashed the system just because a mouse was unplugged for cleaning and plugged in again, etc.).


These days there should be no reason at all to take an entire website down for regular "maintenence", nor when simply adding products to a webstore, nor even for a complete redesign of the website.

They didnt take down the site when apple changed the header back in 2007 from the gell like tabs to the gray buttons. though I remember a lot of coding, and miss placed images all over the place (like the ipod pages were for the first few hours of being up)