My Apple Music playlist was working fine for me during the outage...it's streamed, not downloaded.
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App Store and More Down as Apple Services Suffer Widespread Outage [Updated]
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This was likely a connectivity issue external to Apple that resulted in core services being inaccessible to a small number of users.
It actually makes perfect sense why an online service with more users and more server locations would be more prone to outages.
Last week, Amazon deployed an "update" that was killing our internal VPN every 55 minutes.
Au contrair, a company this size should have automatic monitoring and fallbacks in place, probably with a different cloud provider too.
Another week another Apple service outage. It's getting a bit pathetic now for the worlds richest company.
They seem to have no redundancies in place for anything, if they truly want to rely on services as their main income driver, they need to invest some of their billions in cash in backups. It does not show good quality.
They seem to have no redundancies in place for anything, if they truly want to rely on services as their main income driver, they need to invest some of their billions in cash in backups. It does not show good quality.
I was watching Paramount+ on my TV during this whole ordeal. Also visited the music app and the app store during that time. I had noticed a reddit notification saying all was down. But I didn't see anything down. This has happened before, where Apple stuff is down, yet I don't experience it. Not complaining, it's just odd.
you may be right as we know it couldn’t be China, for TC was just there kissing a certain part of Xi’s anatomy.
I don't like streaming music, films yeah but I still like 4K blu rays better. I want to own a physical copy, sounds better, and I don't end up sitting there with a limp iPhone in my hand looking embarrassed when asked for something hardcore by my partner when shes in the mood for that kind of music <ahem>
I sort of agree. However, (to be slightly facetious), can you suggest a solution where redundancy wouldn't prevent an outage?
Surely, whatever you come up with I can just say well what if they had a fall back, (ie redundant component)?
It's a sign that I should have looked at downdetector.com before wiping the iPad and doing a transfer from my old iPad twice...
So we've gone from it taking 10-15 seconds to load a song in Apple Music to never loading lol
That is good morale why activation should be banned(when Find My is deactivated). When some crisis or disaster comes then device is useless brick. Android does it right and only verification is needed when device is tied to account and theft protection is enabled. Sideloading would be useful in this case too if Store is offline by cyberattacks or server failures.
Sorry for the inconvenience, it was me. I was mining crypto using Apple their servers. I stop now as I mined enough for a new Lambo.
