Yes, the Apple Online Store is DOWN! Following up yesterday’s Daring Fireball of rumors, this is what we might just see soon:
Redesigned Plastic MacBooks, Redesigned (‘Impressive’) iMacs, Updated Minis (Including One That Ships With Mac OS X Server), the Multi-Touch Magic Mouse, and, as the Wildcard I’m-Not-Sure-I-Really-Believe-It-Myself Out-There Rumor, Maybe Even Some Sort of Mentioned-Nowhere-Else-But-in-This-Very-Headline Multi-Touch Trackpad Gadget for Desktop Macs
Or it could just be routine maintenance. Shug. Fingers crossed for the good stuff!
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
The Apple Store is down! (Sure, it’s totally perfunctory at this point, but any great milestone before the main event, we have to celebrate it).
Not much point in asking what will be updated at this point (iPod touch much?), we’ll see as soon as Apple execs hit the stage, no doubt with a hearty line of “your interweb news cycles has belong to us!”
Um… it’s not Tuesday, Apple’s traditional update day. It’s not even Wednesday, September 9th, rumored occasion for Apple’s next annual Music Event for iTunes and the iPod (i.e. third gen iPod touch!). Yet, here we are, wee early hours of Monday morning (Cupertino time) and the Apple Store is down!
Those hoping it’s for the iTablet, well, they probably have months of disappointment ahead. Most widespread guesses at this point are Snow Leopard, which likely has only a tangential connection to the iPhone, and even then only for Mac users.
The Apple Store should be back up soon enough, so in the meantime grab your favorite casual game, or just ponder what Amazon.com would be like if they took down the entire store every time there was an update…
UPDATE: Apple has released new versions of their pro apps, Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio. Not much for iPhone users, unless you count all the more/better iPhone-friendly movies, music, and other media that’ll get made with these tools… (Right Matt?)
“With 1.4 million users and 50 percent of the market,* Final Cut Pro is the number one professional video editing application,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The new Final Cut Studio includes more than 100 new features and dramatically expands Apple’s ProRes family of codecs so editors can work in the studio with the highest quality video or on location at low bandwidths.”
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And Lo, Apple opened the sixth seal and there was silence online. The Apple Store was down. (Seventh sign is Schiller hitting the stage, ‘natch).
Will we see an actual new iPhone up for order, or just pre-sales info like last year? Or is this for something else, non-iPhone related entirely.
We’ll know in less than 1 hour!
If it’s a Tuesday, it’s even odds Apple might be launching some new iteration of some wonderifical product. Could be something as small as a new iPod color or Mac processor speed bump, or as big as a complete re-design (without buttons, ‘natch!). Or it could be nothing — routine maintenance is such a Tuesday tease.
We’ll know soon enough. In the meantime, we’ll just speculate it might be a new 2TB version of the iPhone friendly Time Capsule router+hard drive, or maybe Apple has finally decided to sell their iUnicorn tears directly to the public?
We’ll know soon enough, but please do drop your guesses, expert and outlandish, in the comments…
It’s not that the Apple Store is down — that happens fairly often. But on a Wednesday?! It’s a running joke that Tuesdays are Apple product drops. Did Daylight Savings Time bump Apple not just 1, but 24 hours into the future? Tough to know.
Tougher to know what they’ll be releasing this time, though chances of a 32GB red iPhone are next to none. MacRumors is hearing a 4GB iPod shuffle, though, which is scary big for a tiny device… and makes us think 32GB iPhone’s aren’t out of the question for an update later this year…
We repeat, this is not a drill! The Apple Store is Down! Reports are flooding in from all over the intertubes… Details are sketchy but could this be the Mac Mini, iMac, and Mac Pro update to bring in Nvidia chipsets and Nehalem cores? What about a new 30″ LED Display? How about those iPhone friendlier Airport Extreme and Time Capsule base stations we just heard about? And what does this mean for that Apple Special event we heard rumored for March 24? Almost certainly no new iPhones yet, but last March was the iPhone SDK Road Map event…
Find your loved ones. Cling to them. And hold to hope. The Apple Store WILL be back. And it will once again restore your childlike sense of wonder.
The countdown has begun? Will we get super-cheaper-more-subsidized iPhones? Eh… probably not. Maybe some cash off the iPod Touch, though, along with the rest of the iPod line, and a few bills off the MacBooks.
Some rumors say bigger discounts than years past. Others maintain the same old, same slim.
We’ll know soon enough!
If you manage to snag any great Apple discount swag, let us know!
We repeat, this is not a drill! The Apple Store is Down! Reports are flooding in from all over the intertubes… Details are sketchy but authorities urge everyone to stay calm and proceed to TiPb where Live Meta-Blog coverage of Apple’s “The Spotlight Turns to MacBooks’s” will begin soon!
Now find your loved ones. Cling to them. And hold to hope. The Apple Store WILL be back. And it will once again restore your childlike sense of wonder.
We’re beyond the looking glass. Boom-time approaches people…
