Thursday, December 28th 2006
Apple iTunes cannot handle the holiday rush of iPods
On Christmas day, there were a lot of gifts of iTunes store gift cards, and Apple iPods of various flavors. Unfortunately, there were too many new Apple products for the iTunes server to handle. The iTunes server crashed when faced with over four times the regular volume of traffic. And so, anyone trying to get into the iTunes store will have download slowdowns of up to 20 minutes, and quite possibly an error message preventing them from even entering the store. Apple was not available for comment on the situation.
Source:
The Inquirer
9 Comments on Apple iTunes cannot handle the holiday rush of iPods
-Dan
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