Seriously. One month covers the down time. Even two months would have been better to help migitate some of our losses.
The outage was 3 weeks + 2 days. I'm not sure how many months are only 3 weeks long. If you're going to complain, at least be accurate and explain why this outage has affected *you*, or are you just blinding rooting for the cause because you have the internet at your disposal?
Apple:
- has been very apologetic about this
- has been fairly transparent about what caused the outage
- has taken significant measures to ensure this [hopefully] won't happen again by completely revamping their systems
- restored individual services as they were ready
- given *every* registered developer a one-month extension, even those that weren't affected by this.
Apple paid a price for this outage through:
- negative news in the press
- additional staff expenses, probably overtime
- loss of revenue for one month of free service
Developers were still able to sell their apps during the entire outage. This outage at most would've delayed the release of some apps. If any developer was significantly affected by this outage, that would've been their own fault, not Apple's. **** happens. Internet-based services experience problems. And I'm sure that Apple has learned from this experience and will be proactive about it more in the future. That's how this game works, my friend. So, keep complaining and see how far that gets you in life.
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So what gives Apple? We are the true reason your hardware sells.
How about looking at it the other way around? Without the hardware, there'd be nothing for your beautiful, glossy app to run on... so show some respect for the hand that feeds you.

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Seriously, don't complain about Apple. Find the hacker, cut his balls off, and everyone is happy.
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That's why they shut down the site immediately. So no personal/company/user data left Apple.
Thank the hacker. *IF* it was the hacker that was reported in the news about this, Apple should be thanking him, not labeling him a threat. If it was a different hacker, still thank him and then cut his balls off.
The fact that Apple had to take the entire system down shows that they had some serious design flaws that needed to be fixed. That's Apple's fault, not the hacker's.