Apple Store Down. Verizon iPhone Coming

Why does Apple always take their entire online store down whenever they do product updates? It must cost them hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in lost sales every time.

Is this the first we've seen of details of the Verizon data plans? I'm a tad disappointed but not surprised that the wifi hotspot is an extra $20/month, not including buying metered bandwidth that's separate from your regular unlimited data plan, and not including some sort of activation fee. (I can only imagine how costly it must be for Verizon for you to switch on a feature baked into the phone's OS)

I'd already preordered it for my mom on the Verizon website. It took about an hour for the CC info to be accepted, they must be getting a lot of the orders.

Store is up. Verizon customers may now upgrade