Is something new releasing? Why is it down?
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Black Friday
Even with the gift card there are better deals at retailers.
Yup. Scored a pair of AirPod Pro 2 for $169 at Walmart
They just added their Black Friday “deals” (nothing is actually cheaper, but you get a gift card to the apple store)
I just used the education pricing to save the same money and not get a gift card.
Hmmm 🤔 that’s what I’m thinking
Welcome to the tutti-fruitti, phoney-baloney, plastic banana, good time, rock-n-roll Apple PR hype. They do this every year to create astroturf excitement. It’s like they don’t believe in their own products and have to gin-up interest with these little games. Meanwhile, every other major retailer manages to update their site without taking it offline.
who hurt you?
I get that concern trolling is fun, but do you really think that Apple actually needs to take their site offline for things like this? If you do, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Oh, so everyone. GL!
Who hurt you?
what a joke these black friday sales are. Promo only applies if you buy an old iphone or an inferior mac. This is called a getting rid of old inventory sale.
What do you think Black Friday is for?
Super deal at Apple, MacBook Pro slashed from $1299 to $1279
The deals are actually cheaper somewhere else and have a better return policy than Apple official
Oh no! Anyway.
I know it’s tradition and all, but why exactly does the store need to “go down” at all?
Just thinking about Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc.
I can’t remember the last time these other stores had to “go down” in order to stock a new product, or even do an entire front page refresh. It just sort of… happens.
Speaking as a developer, I can think of a few reasons why it would need to go down. But these reasons are merely technical and speak to the developer capability and design of the system. Whomever runs their store is simply not doing things right.
My non dev take is it’s a marketing tactic. Store goes “down” and posts like this one go up. Drives traffic and generates buzz
Exactly it’s a marketing stunt.
The store is up in India, where we have no Black Friday. So I assume it’s down for a Black Friday sale update in the US.
Better than Black Friday in Japan 😭
People naively rushing to the website expecting some kind of Black Friday deal
In Portugal they’re offering like a €50 gift card when buying an AirPods Pro 2 (€279). Not bad if you plan on buying something extra but not good enough to entice me
Especially when the price on Amazon is lower by the same price they offer you as a gift card (at least in my country).
They already announced it several days ago and has been on their site. It is just giftcards, no discounts or free headphones or anything. Just their basic minimal GC with purchase on older released stuff
Last year, you got a $50 Apple Gift Card with an iphone, a $75 gift card for Airpods, a $50 gift card with Apple Watch, a $50 with iPad, a $250 gift card with a Mac, a $50 with accessories, or a $50 with Beats headphones.
I imagine it’ll be something similar. Not too terrible if you are looking to upgrade, but meh otherwise.
Probably black friday store front update
I read it as “font update” and was like yeah, that makes sense too
When is it going to get past that splash screen?
How would any of us know that?
Supposedly it’ll be back up at 12:01am. And since it’s 12:30 in Chicago, probably won’t be back up for another 90 Minutes?
Maybe someone would know by any chance, thought i’d asm