The Apple Store Is Down

Matt Burns

Matt is a Senior Editor at TechCrunch. Matt Burns is a family man first and attempts to be a writer second. Born and raised in the heart of the automotive world, only cars eclipse his love of gadgets. He previously wrote for Engadget and EngadgetHD before moving into the party house that is TechCrunch. He learned the retail side of... → Learn More

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011


Here we go. Apple just took down their webstore, which actually indicates a new product should be either available for purchase or pre-order later today with all signs point towards the iPad 2. Last year when the original iPad was introduced, the Apple store never went down as the pre-order didn’t start until weeks later. Just saying…