This may or may not mean a thing – you decide:
Directories at Apple.com that are not found, for example… http://www.apple.com/windows/ … usually return:
“Looking for something at Apple.com?
The page you tried was not found. You may have used an outdated link or may have typed the address (URL) incorrectly.”
But… http://www.apple.com/movies/ … currently returns:
“Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /movies/ on this server.”
Hmmm… What do you think?
Related articles:
BusinessWeek: video-ready Apple iPod won’t be about watching movies on the go – September 15, 2005
Apple’s iTunes 5 provides hints of future iTunes Video Store – September 13, 2005
Microsoft, Texas Instruments reps expect Apple ‘iPod video’ by end of year – August 16, 2005
Creative debuts US$399 video-capable 30GB music player – August 03, 2005
The next big thing? Apple’s iTunes 4.9 supports Video Podcasts (with example) – July 29, 2005
BusinessWeek: Think Apple’s developing ‘Video iPod?’ – Think Different – July 27, 2005
Apple’s ‘pure genius’ will soon make iTunes’ portal the ‘number one destination on the Internet’ – July 26, 2005
Video iPod? Does The Wall Street Journal have a ‘Deep Throat’ inside Apple Computer? – July 25, 2005
Cringely: Apple’s soon-to-come ‘iVideo’ movie download service very important to Intel – July 23, 2005
Selling music videos on Apple’s iTunes makes economic sense – July 19, 2005
Report: Disney considers teaming with Apple to deliver iPod video content – July 19, 2005
Ars Technica peeks at Apple’s portable video plans – July 18, 2005
More info about Apple’s reported iPod+iTunes video talks – July 18, 2005
WSJ: Apple in video iTunes talks, may unveil video iPod by September – July 18, 2005
Cringely: Apple working on HD movie download service and Video iPod – July 15, 2005
Cringley: Apple and Intel to merge; Steve Jobs finally beats Bill Gates – June 09, 2005
Apple’s shift to Intel really all about Hollywood, owning the living room, and Transitive – June 05, 2005
Cringely: This week changed the world of high tech forever – May 13, 2005
Cringely: Apple prepping Video iTunes, Video iPod, and setting stage for iPod clones – May 06, 2005
OMG!!1! Confirmed!!
hmmm … mysterious
Uh…if you’re looking for movie trailers, that has always been /trailers. The sub-directory /movies probably holds the media for the entire site, hence “forbidden.”
Now THATS what I call Mac News.
http://www.apple.com/uk/movies/ gets the page not found page. Dunno what that adds to the equation.
No, that’s much ado about not much. I saw the link earlier and checked it out. http://www.apple.com/movies/ returned the same, typical, ‘Looking For Something At Apple?’ page as always.
Later today, the ‘Forbidden…’ page shows up instead.
There’s an Apple sys admin sitting at Starbucks and laughing his butt off.
Bambi Hambi
Mac360
Verboten!
that’s odd, when i type that in my browser it jumps me right in to the itunes/pixar movie store. wonder why no one else is seeing that.
Apple has got to be wondering about all of these hits on http://www.apple.com/movies/
if you:
Connect to server (command K)
from the go menu you get a file system Authentication window, if you the type in your .mac account and password you get….
nothing just kidding, but it is accepting ftp connections?
mw:
water as in water you think all this fuss is about!
Ooops. Apple should have had that directory redirect you to a pseudo 404 page or just to the main page.
You guys have too much time on your hands.
Anyone think that is used to be this page:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/
and when they moved it some sysadmin didn’t delete the directory for whatever non-newsbreaking reason?
Just a thought.
MDN word: which
On most Apache webservers, you’ll get that message if you go to a directory that doesn’t have an index.html (or whatever you’ve designated as a DirectoryIndex in your config or htaccess files).
In basic terms, it just means the directory exists, but there’s no default page in it. It may have content in there, it may not, but there’s no default.
Still, if they’ve created a directory with that name, it might mean they’re planning to populate it. Then again, the last time I cleaned up my own webservers, I found dozens of directories I’d created that I had good intentions for, but never did anything with.
VideoPod is coming (very) soon.
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“Metryq,” media is held in the movies subdirectory of the movies.apple.com and images.apple.com. However, going to these URLs sometimes results in an interesting redirect: http://homepage.mac.com/wysz/iblog/C47259402/E20050915175315/index.html
http://www.apple.com/virgin
Error: Access denied.
OMG, you’ve discovered SJ’s secret porn directory!!!
I thought it was <http://www.apple.com/trailers> ?
However, if you type http://www.apple.com/music you get redirected to the iTunes home page. Something is up!
Damn you Jimbo… that’s what I was gonna say!
Actually, it’s probably just where they’re storing their conspiracy theories.
Check out what you get when you plug in:
http://www.apple.com/wehavenolife.html
or
http://www.apple.com/weRlosers.html
or
http://www.apple.com/mdnsucks.html
It is just exactlywhat you get when try:
http://www.apple.com/windows/
mdn – get a life! sheesh, no computer news so they make up crap to get people to come and increase their ad click counts….
JOnas Sprig, my poor little retard. Please read the MDN article over and over again until you understand it.
I’ll try to help you understand, my poor little mongoloid:
Pages at Apple.com that are not found, for example… http://www.apple.com/JOnas_Sprig_is_mentally_retarded.html … usually return:
“Looking for something at Apple.com?
The page you tried was not found. You may have used an outdated link or may have typed the address (URL) incorrectly.”
But… http://www.apple.com/movies/ … currently returns:
“Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /movies/ on this server.”
I hope that helped, my poor little idiot.
Like SO WHAT?
It’s no big secret Apple is attempting to create a download video store.
When the MacTels come out with their Intel HDCP crippled DRM chips we will see downloadable movies.
Unfortuantly all PPC based Mac’s will most likely not be able to view the movies at maximum quality, a downgraded version perhaps.
It’s the way things are going, just be glad Hollywood is opening up to the idea. They need a counterbalance to the cable monopolies.
Plus there is BIG money in selling content. Apple knows this.
Again just chill and we will see what develops.
MacDude
You are so cool….. NOT