Apple's App Store 'Temporarily Unavailable' for Some

Apple’s App Store has developed a hiccup that is preventing some people from adding new apps or updating apps they’ve previously installed. The outage appears to be affecting some users, but not all.

Users have been reporting problems for the past couple of hours, posting failure notifications to Twitter.

https://twitter.com/sbudner/status/659456544661180416

https://twitter.com/BabyGotBeard/status/659464377284874240

No word yet from Apple, which indicates on its support site that all services are working. The outage comes as Apple prepares to launch the launch the App Store on the new Apple TV device, which will start reaching consumers’ homes on Friday.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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