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The Godfather · May 29, 2006, 05:21 PM

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/05/29/apple...or-gets-stuck/

Maybe it needed more RAM?

Goldfinger · May 29, 2006, 05:25 PM

Since when does the police fix elevators ?

hickey · May 29, 2006, 05:28 PM

lets see how many of these get posted

FeLiZeCaT · May 29, 2006, 05:29 PM

"Un verre dans la pomme" so to speak.

macintologist · May 29, 2006, 05:32 PM

Curse of the Rev. A elevator

Kerrigan · May 29, 2006, 05:58 PM

truly this has become a laughing stock

MM-o4 · May 29, 2006, 06:08 PM

needs firmware update.

sooo funny considering how much money they spent.

MM

hickey · May 29, 2006, 07:17 PM

you forgot your laughing face

Stogieman · May 29, 2006, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by MM-o4

needs firmware update.

sooo funny considering how much money they spent.

MM

Fixed™

greenamp · May 29, 2006, 07:48 PM

WTH were the employees trying to do to fix the elevator before the cops got there? I bet they were denying that it was a "problem" and were trying to convince the customers that it was somehow their fault.

rickey939 · May 29, 2006, 07:50 PM

New Stuckness!®

Peter · May 29, 2006, 08:36 PM

yet more exciting news... a lift gets stuck! amazing

cjrivera · May 29, 2006, 10:06 PM

At least it just got stuck...
If it were a Microsoft elevator, it would have repeatedly crashed.

... but seriously, they should have hired an expert when putting in glass elevator to avoid problems like this...

greenamp · May 29, 2006, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by cjrivera

At least it just got stuck...
If it were a Microsoft elevator, it would have repeatedly crashed.

... but seriously, they should have hired an expert when putting in glass elevator to avoid problems like this...

Sourbook · May 29, 2006, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by greenamp

TheoCryst · May 30, 2006, 12:34 AM

Originally Posted by Sourbook

Originally Posted by grenamp

Hal06 · May 30, 2006, 03:56 AM

I would expect a technical note about this annoying issue sooner than later

Visnaut · May 30, 2006, 01:33 PM

I guess they didn't cover this in Genius Bar training.

Peter · May 30, 2006, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by Inside Man

I would expect a technical note about this annoying issue sooner than later

iranfromthezoo · May 30, 2006, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by Goldfinger

Since when does the police fix elevators ?

haha yeah...the police in NYC do all of the rescue stuff though...ESU...although I know that was a joke...just thought i'd lay that out there..

Jawbone54 · May 30, 2006, 02:20 PM

Originally Posted by Inside Man

I would expect a technical note about this annoying issue sooner than later

Macfreak7 · May 30, 2006, 02:28 PM

Originally Posted by Inside Man

I would expect a technical note about this annoying issue sooner than later

Blame it on intel!

Eug Wanker · May 30, 2006, 02:39 PM

Socially Awkward Solo · May 30, 2006, 02:48 PM

That was freaky.

slugslugslug · May 30, 2006, 03:12 PM

Dude, I think I just fell into my computer...

kikkoman · May 30, 2006, 03:32 PM

I visited my sister in NYC over the holiday weekend. We went to both Soho and 5th Ave. I was kinda bummed the elevator wasn't working. I really wanted to ride it. Now I'm glad I didn't. The stores were jammed packed. It was really amazing.

Rumor · May 30, 2006, 03:55 PM

I found this from a response to the original article.

Turns out Elevator.app was running under Rosetta emulation, since when the original store was designed, which was around March 2005, it was built around a dual PPC G5, and then the Intel transition was unthinkable. They (eventually) replaced the processor for the final release, but didn't have time (or may as well have forgotten to) recomplie Elevator.app to be a Unversal Binary. Of course the man in charge of this is now fired and on the next Cube Store Security Update there will be a point update to Elevator.app, making it a UniBin and considerably faster. It will also automatically serve water when it crashes, so the employees don't have to bother.

Kerrigan · May 30, 2006, 05:08 PM

Actually the problem is that it only has 1 button

Socially Awkward Solo · May 30, 2006, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

Actually the problem is that it only has 1 button

How many does it need? One is enough.

ak1nza · May 30, 2006, 05:36 PM

The Godfather · May 30, 2006, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by MacNN

Once the elevator became level with the lower floor the police opened and held the doors, allowing passengers to escape as the car continued to drop toward the basement. The last passenger exited with a two-foot step up to the lower floor, and two people reportedly burned their hands on the hot lights in the shaft.

Dejavu. I just watched Resident Evil 1 last week. :shiver:

The Godfather · May 30, 2006, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by cjrivera

At least it just got stuck...
If it were a Microsoft elevator, it would have repeatedly crashed.

The sad thing is that M$ fanboys are going to rip this on our face every chance they get.

Velocity211 · May 30, 2006, 09:20 PM

The computer that controls the elevator broke, so the apple employees switched it with a PC right before the elevator got stuck.

Velocity211 · May 30, 2006, 09:21 PM

Originally Posted by The Godfather

The sad thing is that M$ fanboys are going to rip this on our face every chance they get.

Well we got a trillon comebacks waiting for them.