Apple shutters store as fanbois camp out on virtual pavement
Feast your eyes on Post-it of destiny
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.
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. ®
COMMENTS
Reminds me of a cruel pet owner.
Who holds a favoured treat just out of reach just to watch his poor dumb animal squirm.
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.
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.
Is that "a mini upgrade" as in...
...an upgrade, the magnitude of which is completely and utterly belied by the level of attention it receives?
LOL@photoshopped jobs...
Good job! Whomever did that. I'd like to know, is this an El Reg original or was this lifted off somewhere else. Also, if it's an El Reg, do you mind my lifting it off the site?
Please tell me he's not Catholic and they're not going to try and even think of that..
