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Apple shutters store as fanbois camp out on virtual pavement

Feast your eyes on Post-it of destiny

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Apple has pulled the plug on its online store, flagging up to he world that it is about to unleash something new and magical and revolutionary on the world.

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Or it's simply clearing the virtual shelves for the iPad 2 later today.

Visitors to the site are currently being met with the mystic "We'll be back soon" virtual Post-it note.

Which is a red rag to the herds of Apple fans ready to hand over cash for whatever it is Apple – and maybe even Steve Jobs himself – is going to unwrap today.

The big one is the iPad 2 of course. At least until some spoilsport suggested the one to watch for is the iPad 3 in the autumn, which will be "one to make a song and dance about".

Other tips include some kind of repackaging of MobileMe, which may or may not include a cloudy iTunes service. The $99 annual MobileMe package has lately disappeared off both real and virtual shelves.

Anyone expecting Thunderbolts may be disappointed – Apple slipped that one out last week. ®

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Reminds me of a cruel pet owner.

Who holds a favoured treat just out of reach just to watch his poor dumb animal squirm.

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That picture of Saint Steve is all over sites ...

in China, HongKong and VietNam.

Don't think there is an attributed faith - most likely standard TV bible thumper gear used by all the usual culprits including Robert H. Schuller <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Robert_H._Schuller > of the California megachurch founded by the television evangelist which hit the bumpers when Wall Street broke the world's banks.

Every iPhan should have one as a screen saver and a wall hanging to remind them of Him.

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Or perhaps...

Not "Sir" Steve of Jobs has found Shangri-La, where he has been drinking copiously from the "Fountain of Youth", thus gaining immortality and thus resolving the fears of the Apple stock holders.

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