Apple Store goes down ahead of possible first new product launch of 2017

Is Apple about to quietly release its first brand new products of the year? Are tablets now such an afterthought that new iPads aren't even important enough to warrant their own Apple press conference? Those questions and more should be answered shortly — the online Apple store went down shortly after midnight this morning, and it's still down right now. No one is quite sure exactly why the Apple store was taken offline, though the outage was scheduled and was noted on Apple's system statu