"Could not purchase" iTunes Store Error

Yep, works here now too! What a crazy night! I'm sure there was some kind of bug or security issue. But I can download now on my phone and laptop : )

Working for me now today too.

Apple: Please post server status issues somewhere prominently on the web site, or provide a better error message in iTunes, so us customers don't waste time trying to troubleshoot iTunes, firewalls, and OS configuration.

Right now today I've been getting the same error message that wouldn't let me download my past purchases of selected songs into my iTunes every time I try to download one or more than one. It still won't let me download!

I was having this issue with updates for apps. Kept failing more then 75%. If I hit 'restart' it had a 50% success, then hit restart again, the chances go better. Very annoying when I have about 30 updates each time I do this. What I did helped alot, didn't fix it complete though... only failing 10% of the time now.

I went into downloads in itunes when things were downloading, and turned off simultaneous downloads. *****, I had to do this but helping me in my situaton

Also, worth noting. When I do a diagonsis, I found that i failed a secure link to apple when running network diagnostic. The details showed it could not reach iphone activation server. Not sure if anyone has assistance on fixing the ROOT issue rather than my bandaid.

exactly the same problem like mine

if i get this message (for downloading an App update), i just say ok, then click update again and it downloads it but gives me the same message for the next app on my list of updates...

Apple need to fix this. just like lots of other things!

@Paul, I've been getting the same failure for days now. Clicking "Update All" pretty much always fails and if I update one at a time I get fail, fail fail, succeed, fail, fail, fail, fail, succeed,... And it seems to be getting worse.

Updating apps from my phone instead of thru iTunes seems to work much, much better, but I still get failures on the phone too.

I don't think it is anything on users' end. It really smells like Apple is having a capacity issue. Maybe they are fighting off some kind of attack like a Denial of Service or something and don't want to admit while their are engaged with fighting it.

Same old problem. Come on Apple sort it this has gone on for years