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iTunes Connect to Go Down for Maintenance as App Store Problems Persist
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Hmmm mm. A newbie who has joined specifically to spread fear about credit card theft.
Agree on this speculation. I think Apple was doing some load testing in anticipation of the flood they'll get for Lion and found some problems.
I don't know why people keep claiming that it's down due to the release of Lion. Believe it or not, Lion isn't that big (file size) and Apple will probably just place it on the App Store like a normal app. I don't know why they would have to do anything fancy in order to put it on. The App Store is still going to work with Snow Leopard, but if this maintenance has to do with COMPATIBILITY with Lion, then that's an excuse. Not because Lion is going to launch soon. And the App Store works perfectly with Lion anyway, so it probably has nothing to do with Lion.
Curious. Another newbie claiming credit card trouble. Looks like more trolls than real posters on macrumors these days.
Considering this article from InformationWeek earlier this week there's a lot at stake for Apple:
Source: InformationWeek
Thus, it would be very plausible to perform extensive maintenance. Apple would not necessarily have to move content over to other farms, but they would want to spread the load as much as possible, perhaps per region.
Source: InformationWeek
Thus, it would be very plausible to perform extensive maintenance. Apple would not necessarily have to move content over to other farms, but they would want to spread the load as much as possible, perhaps per region.
It relates to app store credit voucher
Someone used mine to get over £45 worth of apps, only got and activated the voucher on Sunday 10th
Have reset my password and account and requested that Apple reimburse me
People should not have a problem on this forum with people explaining problems they have
Someone used mine to get over £45 worth of apps, only got and activated the voucher on Sunday 10th
Have reset my password and account and requested that Apple reimburse me
People should not have a problem on this forum with people explaining problems they have
Man, the App Store on my iPhone was having a heck of a time loading anything for a few hours. Don't know if that's related.
If this is the case hopefully it will not delay the Lion release date. With not announcing an exact date Apple has given themselves flexibility in when they release it, if they encounter problems it would be very easy to delay it by a week or two.
I was at WWDC, but I don't think I'm breaking any NDA. One of the new features announced is/was the ability to transmit 'delta' updates, i.e. just the changes between old and new versions. Not just for iOS but for apps. So they could be prepping for that.
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I wonder if lion was suppose to be released tomorrow, will it be delayed because of this?
I wonder if lion was suppose to be released tomorrow, will it be delayed because of this?
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You joined today to post about stolen credit issues, changing passwords, and to support another newbie's story about same?
mark1882 said:
You joined today to post about stolen credit issues, changing passwords, and to support another newbie's story about same?
I very much doubt this has anything to do with iCloud's storage/sync features (I doubt iCloud is all run off of the same set of servers because we've had almost all of the features of iCloud for some time now e.g. mail/address/calendars, iBook syncing).
I could see this having something to do with the mess from yesterday (not sure if it was related but yesterday morning the iTunes App Store would not update any of my apps, it would instead download an old version constantly). So maybe it was maintenance gone wrong and they need to bring parts down to fix it.
My guess is that the Apple retail stores will be provided copies of Lion on physical media (either discs or more likely a USB thumbdrive) as part of a larger shipment of pre-launch materials related to Lion.
After all, the Genius Bar would probably need some copies of Lion on physical media for repairs, etc. as well as in-house maintenance of display units, adding demo videos, etc.
Remember that retail line employees are typically the last group to learn the details about new products (for fear of leaks). If there is a USB thumbdrive with a copy of OS X Lion in an Apple retail store, it's in the store manager's locked office (or similarly protected space).
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Hmmm.
Maybe it's the weather?
Could be the position of the moon?
Could be the colour of that rock in my garden, causing it?
Maybe Steve Jobs' shoe colour is affecting it?
Seriously guys, quit with the speculation.
Maybe it's the weather?
Could be the position of the moon?
Could be the colour of that rock in my garden, causing it?
Maybe Steve Jobs' shoe colour is affecting it?
Seriously guys, quit with the speculation.
Can you people just please stop criticizing people like that!
A person wants to tell the world something, he/she can, just without stupid people going in the way.
So please, stop acting like your a troll going in everyone's buisness.
Plus he/she is a newbie, SO BE RESPECTFUL!
Likely a scalability issue
Likely, Apple has found a scalability issue with the way the system was architected. This may have been aggravated/exposed by a DDOS attack, or it could simply be that something has started bottlenecking with regular growth in the system.
It sounds to me like they had to re-engineer some part of the system to get around a bottleneck and it's going to take a big day of emergency maintenance to get the updates in place. Sometimes you just have to get it done before things get worse.
Likely, Apple has found a scalability issue with the way the system was architected. This may have been aggravated/exposed by a DDOS attack, or it could simply be that something has started bottlenecking with regular growth in the system.
It sounds to me like they had to re-engineer some part of the system to get around a bottleneck and it's going to take a big day of emergency maintenance to get the updates in place. Sometimes you just have to get it done before things get worse.
It didn't go down for me until 2:00 am. Working great this morning. That's when companies do maintenance, not when hackers do DOS attacks.