iCloud and iTunes Experiencing Widespread Outage [Updated]

[horsebattery]

Someone else said once every 2 weeks, and that is clearly an exaggeration. It goes down nowhere near like that.

Prove to me that iCloud is worse. Compare all the iCloud outages with the other services outages.

I'm waiting.

Oh my role was simply single out your hyperbolic and apologist posts that regulars on these boards have long been aware of. You might want to start on your backlog of wild claims if you're looking to be anal and requesting proof of exaggerated statements.

 

[hovscorpion12]

And your location is where? Not up for me. Thanks.

Boston MA, USA

 

[GeneralChang]

I know this is random but the iTunes interface is so terrible.

Right? And remember how OS 9 didn't have protected memory? I know it's a little off topic, but how obnoxious was that?

I kid, I kid. What's interesting about this is I know I've gotten email since 8:30 pacific time, so I guess I'm not affected? These wide spread failures always seem to miss me somehow. I'll just be over here counting my blessings I guess.

 

[NY Guitarist]

It's been off and on for hours where I am. Sometime on for awhile, then going off/on very quickly.

Trying to get business done this way makes me want to look into non-Apple alternatives.

 

[bushido]

Someone else said once every 2 weeks, and that is clearly an exaggeration. It goes down nowhere near like that.

Prove to me that iCloud is worse. Compare all the iCloud outages with the other services outages.

I'm waiting.

march 11 - Apple: Services back after major outage
april 1 - Latest Apple service outage affecting App Store & iTunes
may 21 - Outage alert: 11 Apple services are having serious problems this morning

yes may not be every 2 weeks but often enough

 

[Keerock]

Did iCloud get hacked? Did I miss that?

Unless of course you mean the celeb thing recently where people used rubbishy simple passwords that got guessed which could happen on any system......

Not on any system. Only those poorly architected and coded allowing limitless guesses. Like Apple used to allow. So it wasn't guessing, it was brute force via alogorithym.

 

[AlexH]

Not on any system. Only those poorly architected and coded allowing limitless guesses. Like Apple used to allow. So it wasn't guessing, it was brute force via alogorithym.

And bad passwords...

 

[xplora]

iTunes Store, Mac App Store appear to be having issues now (at least in New Zealand) getting "The server gave an error during download: 503 Service Unavailable." in the Mac App Store, while iTunes App Store downloads just complain the store is temporarily unavailable.

And the status page is now reflecting that.

 

[dmarcia]

i cant login to game center too. Location: Australia.

 

[xplora]

i cant login to game center too. Location: Australia.

Apple's System Status page has been saing Game Center has been patchy for the past 6 hours.

 

[Willo34]

Pfff, only back up for me since late last night. They need to get their ducks in order so this doesnt happen as often as it does now.

 

[AlecZ]

To the guys arguing about Apple vs Google, I can tell you that Gmail's IMAP authentication is really hit-and-miss. That's half the reason I've stopped using it in favor of iCloud and AOL (yeah seriously, AOL's mail just works).

 

[Keerock]

And bad passwords...

Yes, agreed.