By Graham K. Rogers

Earlier today, the Apple Store for Thailand was offline. A check revealed then that other stores were also offline, with some sites speculating that the update could be preparation for online orders of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+.

The update at the Thai online store has now been completed and the home screen shows the iPhone 5s, so not much has changed there. The US Store is still offline.

More updates as the real world changes.

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand where he is also Assistant Dean. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs. He is now continuing that in the Bangkok Post supplement, Life.