A mid-day power outage knocked Appleâs inventory and management systems offline on Friday, severing the companyâs links to credit card processing networks around the world.
One tipster told AppleInsider the outage lasted approximately two hours where he or she was located. Meanwhile, a post on the ifoAppleStore Web site offers an account from one retail store where the outage lasted over 30 minutes.
"The outage forced retail store staffers to manually process credit card purchases for over 30 minutes, slowing the POS process to a crawl," ifo reported. "Meanwhile, the already-long lines at some stores snaked out the front door, discouraging new customers from coming inside to make purchases."
There is no word on what caused the power outage.
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Little amendment needed in the title, this did not occur on Christmas Eve, it occurred on December 23rd.
There is no word on what caused the power outage.
damn!
beat me to it!
Wow this was newsworthy.