Apple Web Stores Down Across Europe – Price Cuts, Promotions Coming?

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Thursday, November 4th, 2010

All over Europe, localized Apple’s online retail stores have recently gone down, which is almost always a sign of impending changes. Obviously, there are no new products bound for the stores, so this means that there are likely pricing changes ahead, possibly in tandem with holiday offers and other promotions.

The Apple Store in the US and other parts of the world functions as normal, but key stores in Europe, including UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy are currently unavailable.

We’ll update this post when the stores come back up, so stay tuned for now.

Update: the stores just went back up – what changes do you see? Share in comments.

(Thanks for the tip, Laurence)

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