During the night, European Apple Stores were down for hours in order to redesign the online store, and aligning them with the recently refreshed US Store.
Such change also had impact on the European Apple publishing team, located in France, and dismantled during the summer.
This update of European Apple Stores based on in depth revised code provides a modified user interface. It could also be the first sign of some product announcement,s such as making UK, Germany and French Apple Stores ready to welcome the iPhone in November.
[translation by Linathael]