Apple Music, Beats 1, iTunes and App Store Experiencing Issues During VMA Nominee Announcements

[MacRumors]

A growing number of users on Twitter are reporting issues with Apple Music, Beats 1, iTunes and the App Store as nominees are announced for the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) exclusively on Beats 1. MacRumors can confirm that many of Apple's cloud-based services are currently not loading or are displaying error messages in the United States and Canada.

Apple has updated its System Status page to reflect service disruptions for some users for the App Store, Apple TV, iBooks Store, iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, iTunes Store, iTunes U, Mac App Store, OS X Software Update, Beats 1 Radio and Volume Purchase Program. The issues have been ongoing since approximately 9:45 AM Eastern.

Update 10:38 AM Pacific: Apple's System Status page now indicates that all services are online again.

Article Link: Apple Music, Beats 1, iTunes and App Store Experiencing Issues During VMA Nominee Announcements

 

[benguild]

Damn, I was wondering why the Mac App Store was down...

 

[Chuck Kostalnick]

Yep, been having issues all morning.

 

[jdillings]

ROFL.....you can't be serious that there are that many people that care about the VMAs that it is taking down Apple's infrastructure. This ain't 1988.

 

[kirky29]

Awkward time for Apple! iTunes Apple Music keeps giving me an error so I guess that's why.. still seems to be working though.

 

[0815]

Apple has great hardware, good software ... but at services they totally suck.

In my perfect world it would have been great if Google and Apple would have played well together with Apple providing the OS and the hardware and Google providing all the service related things.

 

[Chaszmyr]

So what exactly do you do when you've agreed to announce something exclusively on a service that isn't working?

 

[Godzilla71]

I'm shocked!! /s

 

[jwm]

So tired of these all too frequent issues with Apple cloud services!

 

[bbeagle]

ROFL.....you can't be serious that there are that many people that care about the VMAs that it is taking down Apple's infrastructure. This ain't 1988.

In the old days, it didn't matter how many people were listening/watching a broadcast, the radio or television station broadcast the SAME signal, and if 100 people or 100,000 people had radios or TVs with antennas, it didn't matter.

Now, Apple (or any company) must ramp up their server load to serve more people. I understand for custom web content, but for streaming content, which is the same for everyone, there's got to be a better way.

 

[kolargol22]

you can feedback about that here: http://isapplemusicdown.com

 

[Even Longer]

Seriously? Beats 1 must have had a codename: "ISSUE 1". There hasn't been a single day, this service worked flawlessly here in Germany...

So, for us here it is business as usual.

 

[Rogifan]

How embarrassing. When does Eddy get taken to the woodshed over Apple's poor internet services?

 

[0815]

So tired of these all to frequent issues with Apple cloud services!

I am no longer trusting or using any apple cloud services (at least I try to avoid them as much as I can) ... I got burned way to many times and that lost trust is hard to rebuild.

 

[jonnyb098]

This is why people still want to own their music. All this cloud stuff can go down down down the drain. How is it just about EVERY other music service can stay up? Pandora has never once been down for me in almost 10 years. Apple might just need to throw in the towel on cloud services. They never can get them right.

 

[BornAgainMac]

you can feedback about that here: http://isapplemusicdown.com

Taylor Swift needs to give feedback. Apple doesn't listen to our feedback.

 

[dannyyankou]

ROFL.....you can't be serious that there are that many people that care about the VMAs that it is taking down Apple's infrastructure. This ain't 1988.

These are literally the only 2 tweets on my timeline about the VMAs. And I follow over 1,000 people.

 

[Allewsive]

A growing number of users on Twitter are reporting issues with Apple Music, Beats 1, iTunes and the App Store as nominees are announced for the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) exclusively on Beats 1. MacRumors can confirm that many of Apple's cloud-based services are currently not loading or are displaying error messages in the United States and Canada.

Apple has updated its System Status page to reflect service disruptions for some users for the App Store, Apple TV, iBooks Store, iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, iTunes Store, iTunes U, Mac App Store, OS X Software Update, Beats 1 Radio and Volume Purchase Program. The issues have been ongoing since approximately 9:45 AM Eastern. Apple is currently investigating the cause of the problem.

Article Link: Apple Music, Beats 1, iTunes and App Store Experiencing Issues During VMA Nominee Announcements

Wonderful company. "Diversifies to grow to highest capitol company in the world, ***** on all their customers quality experiences."

 

[macam]

It's not just in the US - I had to revert back to spotify to listen to music! Seriously Apple, get your shiz together!

 

[A.R.]

The problem is happening in Saudi Arabia also. I can't sign in to iTunes.

 

[XMZ-250]

At first, I thought that my internet connection is acting weird. Good thing I saw this article.

 

[bbeagle]

This is why people still want to own their music. All this cloud stuff can go down down down the drain. How is it just about EVERY other music service can stay up? Pandora has never once been down for me in almost 10 years. Apple might just need to throw in the towel on cloud services. They never can get them right.

Pandora is down all the time...

http://sitedown.co/pandora

There just isn't a pandorarumors.com website to detail every second it's down.

 

[Godzilla71]

This is why people still want to own their music. All this cloud stuff can go down down down the drain. How is it just about EVERY other music service can stay up? Pandora has never once been down for me in almost 10 years. Apple might just need to throw in the towel on cloud services. They never can get them right.

Or, acquire a company that can

 

[blizaine]

ROFL.....you can't be serious that there are that many people that care about the VMAs that it is taking down Apple's infrastructure. This ain't 1988.

agree... This has to be more of a coincidence than anything.

 

[Godzilla71]

And the winner for the worst cloud service goes to ....................