Apple closed it's online store this morning with the very famous yellow sticky: And everyone expected it to be back up pretty quick, considering it was a Wednesday. But something terrible happened and the store is not only down with the sticky but down down, as in DEAD! As of 1:40pm - I can't access the store. I hear some other people can't either. Sounds like a bigger issue, or maybe Johnny unplugged the servers:

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Being a resident of NYC, I often go by the Apple Store on 5th Ave.  I hardly go in there, unless I need a new pair of iPhone headphones (yes I use them with my HTC hero).  According to Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Fortune Magazine, there is a Cornell study that figured out the glass cube which is the Apple Store on 5th avenue is the 5th most photographed landmark in NYC, and 28th in the world! In NYC the five most photographed landmarks are:

• Empire State Building (which is 7th in the world)
• Time Square
• Rcokefeller Center
• Grand Central Station
• Fifth Ave. Apple Store

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