December 28, 2006
iTunes Store experiences holiday woes
Authored by Scott Silverman at 7:41 AM
Category | Music » iTMS
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I’m pretty sure the iTunes Store was designed with work in mind. What do I mean by this? Well I think Apple took into account the fact that many potential users will be at work during the day, thus rendering themselves unable to browse the iTunes Store as use up server bandwidth. How do I reach this conclusion? Well I’ll tell you.
When people have time off from work (ie: during the holidays), they spend much more time in the iTunes Store, thus creating high amounts of traffic. I don’t know about you, but many many times throughout these past few days I received an error from the iTunes Store stating it could not be accessed because the server was busy (or something of the like).
Of course, the high traffic could certainly be due to hundreds of thousands of iTunes gift certificate recipients all trying to redeem their holiday cash for songs, but the bottom line is: iTunes seems to have done well this holiday season. Maybe Apple should look into a few new servers?
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The iTunes Store has been slow ever since Apple increased the size of TV episode downloads and introduced movies. I tend to use iTunes at lunch at work, so if it is during the day, I've noticed it. On Mon. and Tues. I got many "error" messages, but you just plug along. Any song downloads were completed in seconds. They definitely need more servers; they've needed more for awhile. But from what I can tell most of the complaints were from newbies who got an "iTunes could not complete your request please try again later" message and freaked out.
Posted by: Jack | December 28, 2006 06:27 PM