All Apple Developer Services Back Online after Hack, Apple Offers Free Month Extension

[misdreavus79]

So many people are happy with bare minimums, no wonder everything is going to hell.

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apple owes it's success partially to its developers, no?

once again fanboism overrules common sense

And those developers, do they not profit from Apple's success also?

There was some data loss. Just before the outage I had regenerated all my certificates and provisioning profiles since they were expiring. Now those certificates don't appear in the portal, and the old expired provisioning profiles that I had expunged have reappeared in the portal.

I have submitted two app updates using the new certificates and profiles, so they're definitely not a figment of my imagination... I dare not try to refresh from Xcode at this point.

For all those saying "your apps are still selling so devs are unaffected": that is true for existing apps. But anyone working on anything new (updates or new apps) has had their revenue delayed by a month. $8 worth of compensation is not much of a gesture in exchange for the loss of a month's income.

Correction: Potential revenue. However, what would be your ideal compensation in that scenario?

 

[piranhadonna]

Is it relatively rare to not get an activation code after paying for Mac OS X developer membership? I'm already an iOS developer but I paid for the Mac OS X membership early Saturday morning after I saw that it was possible again after the outage. Still no activation code. I've been checking my spam folder the whole weekend I've posted earlier in this thread. There's one other person who replied. I will post again if I get the activation code email or if I have any news. My name is REALLY unusual and my email address and credit card name are the same as my Apple ID name.

This is frustrating. I wish they wouldn't say that we'd get out code in 24 hours if this isn't true on weekends.
Thanks for any replies about your experiences.

I called and was told I should receive it today and if not call back later.

 

[MozMan68]

I called and was told I should receive it today and if not call back later.

Great...I added iOS Saturday night and recieved a confirmation invoice at 11:45 p.m.

Actually stayed up late last night waiting for the email since it had been 24 hours.

Hope it's today for me as well so I can test out iOS7 on a trip I'm taking this week.

 

[farmkittie]

Update after call to Apple

I called and was told I should receive it today and if not call back later.

I called about fifteen minutes ago and was told to wait 48 hours and then call if I don't have. Reason is the onslaught of those who signed up right after outage
was over (i.e. the ability to join program was restored). I'll post again if I receive the activation code or, if I've waited 48 hours and still don't have it and call again and get more news. Good luck everyone.

 

[hollersoft]

Correction: Potential revenue. However, what would be your ideal compensation in that scenario?

Good question. I don't know. I do know $8 is not particularly generous. It's pretty well the minimum they could offer.

It's kind of hard to say if anybody is entitled to anything more. Apple and developers have kind of a symbiotic relationship. They need cool apps to help generate buzz about iOS 7, and Apple is losing their 30% of any lost revenue too. So any delays cost them $$$ too. But of course developers are totally dependent on Apple in a more immediate sense.

The only real win-win would have been if the outage hadn't happened, or at least had been much shorter. At least things are back on track now.

 

[piranhadonna]

Great...I added iOS Saturday night and recieved a confirmation invoice at 11:45 p.m.

Actually stayed up late last night waiting for the email since it had been 24 hours.

Hope it's today for me as well so I can test out iOS7 on a trip I'm taking this week.

<a rel="nofollow" href="https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=17721880" target="_blank">Originally Posted by piranhadonna</a>

I called and was told I should receive it today and if not call back later.

Just received mine.

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I called about fifteen minutes ago and was told to wait 48 hours and then call if I don't have. Reason is the onslaught of those who signed up right after outage
was over (i.e. the ability to join program was restored). I'll post again if I receive the activation code or, if I've waited 48 hours and still don't have it and call again and get more news. Good luck everyone.

Just received mine.

 

[farmkittie]

Just received mine.

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Just received mine.

I just got mine too.