App Store and More Down as Apple Services Suffer Widespread Outage [Updated]

[spazzcat]

It always blows my mind that a company of this size does not have redundancies in place to prevent something like that.

There are/were major outages everywhere. Even Microsoft was having issues.

 

[nightfox818]

No wonder. They made everything cloud dependant.

The DOJ really needs to start a few more lawsuits aimed at Big Cloud. I don’t remember all these big outages happening when everything wasn’t consolidated at Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, and GCP (I’d say Oracle Cloud too but no one is using that because it’s Oracle).

 

[rjruiz2]

I wonder if it's raining outside? Hmm🤔

 

[darngooddesign]

Apple Music is working for me (probably because I download my library), but the App Store is down.

Yep. Only the foolish would not have some music stored locally.

 

[StuBeck]

I’d love to know the number of millions per minute they’re losing right now. I would not want that level of stress.

There is always a reason for why something like this happens, that could have prevented it. Its not stressful to support a system like that when you have facts on your side.

 

[iFunk]

Phil Schiller needs to get back to working more than 80 hours a week. He doesn't need a life... but we need our Apple services. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/27/apple-phil-schiller-profile/

 

[Nekronos]

Another reason why I BUY my music and download it…..yet you STILL lose purchases when artists or their heirs pull stuff off of iTunes ….(WHICH IS BS IMHO….)

if you can lose a purchase......it's not really a purchase.

 

[nt5672]

Hmmm, did not notice the outage at all. Guess I'm not addicted yet.

 

[cocky jeremy]

This had me worried. I noticed the error right after I downloaded the new iOS beta and thought it broke my App Store. lol.

 

[nrose101]

Music purchases? No, you don't lose them. The downloads have been DRM-free for years.

They aren't anymore after they switched to lossless music. They stuck in back in. Now I just buy everything from QBuzz and put in iTunes so I OWN IT.

 

[nrose101]

So everything else is a plus. I mean, in the rare instances we do have a tech outage like this, you default back to when things were far superior. Or you can just get rid of all that tech and live like it was 30 years ago. It’s a win win situation for you.

We had plenty of tech 30 years ago. IBM PS/2 were all the rage. OS/2 was an operating system and Lotus Notes was around so you don't have to use buggy MS word. I agree that 30 years ago was better.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Show them how to do it.

I don't work for Apple's cloud team -- and from the rumors about it, I'm happy I don't.

But I do work for a much smaller company than Apple, that does it. It's not incredibly hard. You just need to not use services that force a vendor lock-in, and be able to switch your DNS settings.

And by not incredibly hard, I mean we have an entire team that manages our infrastructure, but Apple should too. We're going on 3 years of uptime for the specific service I am a part of, and a part of that is the ability to automatically failover to our secondary data center when our primary and backup AWS instances have problems.

 

[Itinj24]

We had plenty of tech 30 years ago. IBM PS/2 were all the rage. OS/2 was an operating system and Lotus Notes was around so you don't have to use buggy MS word. I agree that 30 years ago was better.

And beepers/pagers lol. I was in high school 30 years ago.

 

[Rigby]

They aren't anymore after they switched to lossless music. They stuck in back in. Now I just buy everything from QBuzz and put in iTunes so I OWN IT.

To my knowledge Apple has never offered lossless music for purchase (it's only offered with an Apple Music subscription). For purchased music you can still download DRM-free 256kbps AAC files.

 

[JamestheCharming]

Au contrair, a company this size should have automatic monitoring and fallbacks in place, probably with a different cloud provider too.

Désolé bro, I worked in company this size, and believe me it is EXTREMELY hard given we have all these auto monitoring, fallback servers AND you know what - drills from time to time. You'd rather do it in a 3 ppl company, which is way more easier. So just imagine the scale.