Apple Store Down. Verizon iPhone Coming

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Post by dawsdesign » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 6:42 AM UTC

Apple Store Down. Verizon iPhone Coming
store.apple.com

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#2

Post by modeless » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 7:59 AM UTC

Why does Apple always take their entire online store down whenever they do product updates? It must cost them hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in lost sales every time.

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Post by jkincaid » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:03 AM UTC

modeless wrote: post #2

Why does Apple always take their entire online store down whenever they do product updates? It must cost them hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in lost sales every time.

Perhaps the free press generated by every brief downtime more than compensates for it? (that isn't me being sarcastic, it's just a guess)

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Post by xenocom » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:10 AM UTC

modeless wrote: post #2

Why does Apple always take their entire online store down whenever they do product updates? It must cost them hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in lost sales every time.

It probably has more to do with the technology they use than anything. With high scalability comes great pains-in-the-ass to upgrade. ;)

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#5

Post by dawsdesign » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:10 AM UTC

Store is up. Verizon customers may now upgrade

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#6

Post by dawsdesign » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:12 AM UTC

xenocom wrote: post #4

modeless wrote: post #2

Why does Apple always take their entire online store down whenever they do product updates? It must cost them hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in lost sales every time.

It probably has more to do with the technology they use than anything. With high scalability comes great pains-in-the-ass to upgrade. ;)

That's true, they use the java based web objects framework.

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Post by dawsdesign » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:16 AM UTC

dawsdesign wrote: post #5

Store is up. Verizon customers may now upgrade

Actually I'm seeing Apple having communication errors communicating with Verizon so I can't purchase yet....

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Post by catshirt » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 8:50 AM UTC

dawsdesign wrote: post #7

dawsdesign wrote: post #5

Store is up. Verizon customers may now upgrade

Actually I'm seeing Apple having communication errors communicating with Verizon so I can't purchase yet....

let the fun begin?

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Post by Zev » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 9:12 AM UTC

dawsdesign wrote: post #6

xenocom wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It probably has more to do with the technology they use than anything. With high scalability comes great pains-in-the-ass to upgrade. ;)

That's true, they use the java based web objects framework.

WebObjects doesn't necessarily mean Java.

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Post by mlinsey » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 9:29 AM UTC

Is this the first we've seen of details of the Verizon data plans? I'm a tad disappointed but not surprised that the wifi hotspot is an extra $20/month, not including buying metered bandwidth that's separate from your regular unlimited data plan, and not including some sort of activation fee. (I can only imagine how costly it must be for Verizon for you to switch on a feature baked into the phone's OS)