Apple Store currently offline (Update: 8:50am EST: Store back online)

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Apple’s online store is currently offline, displaying the familiar message that often, but not always, precedes new product additions:

We’ll be back soon. We are busy updating the store for you and will be back shortly.

[UPDATE: 8:50am EST: The Store is back online with new iPod shuffle pricing and model along with Xsan 2 and the disappearance of Xserve RAID.)

Visit the Apple Store here.

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Apple discontinues Xserve RAID – February 19, 2008
Apple introduces Xsan 2 with MultiSAN; now supports third-party RAID storage hardware – February 19, 2008
Apple iPod shuffle now just $49; New 2GB model priced at only $69 – February 19, 2008

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  5. Dumb question – but why does Apple have to take it´s website off line every time it changes the price of a product or add a product?
    I never see Amazon or Adobe or Dell or any company go off line when it adds a product.
    Can´t Apple figure out how to create it´s website?
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    P.S. They lowered the price of the iPod shuffle drop by $30.

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  9. @Wallace,

    Apple has one of the best-designed websites on the planet when it comes to user-friendliness, clean design, and navigation. They do a better job than 95% of the other big sites out there, in my opinion.

    I think part of the reason for taking the store down is to build up some excitement among us users. Nothing like a (re-)opening of a store. They do it all the time with their physical stores, why not the online store?

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  11. “Dumb question – but why does Apple have to take it´s website off line…”

    Another dumb question: why can so few people spell “its” correctly these days? I can remember learning the difference between “its” and “it’s” when I was 8. Just about every word ending with an “s” seems to be an excuse to add an apostrophe. Just wonderin’, ya know…

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  13. I’m surprised Apple actually re-opened the store. They should have shut it down for good. I didn’t see any Zunes or Windows computers so what’s the point?

    Does Apple really think people are going to buy overpriced proprietary toys that can’t play games? Whatever.

    Your potential. Our passion.™

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  14. @Des Gusting
    Why can´t people spell the word “wondering” correctly?
    It seems I learned how to spell it when I was six. Just about every word ending in a “g” seems to be an excuse to drop the “g” and add an uneducated, hillbilly I.Q.-level apostrophe.

    And then those people that use the word “ya” instead of “you”. Ugh! Can´t you spell? (And let´s not discuss the people that have to end a sentence with a row of periods.)

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  16. haha I hope Zune Tag is just kidding.. Who in their right mind would want to buy a vista computer now? Seriously, Zune….the ipod killer…. so far it is killing itself. Shit brown was their main color… yeah that worked…..And look how well they are doing with windows mobile.. oh wait, I remember reading how apple already has a higher market share than them for mobile OS and how long has windows mobile been around? This is too easy….I have used every windows OS even vista and I refuse to run vista on anything at work. It really says something when they decide that vista is not suitable for the 2008 Olympics, except for some online browsing and checking mail.

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