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Apple's App Stores, Some iCloud Services Experiencing Temporary Outage
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Apple has a massive user base and very comprehensive services. No system is perfect. Yet I do think Apple and it's users would benefit if Apple made the extra effort to improve the infrastructure. Not that it's poor, but I see no reason that Apple can't match the stellar reputation of Amazon.
It would be "shoddy" if that were the case, but the fact remains — we don't know because Apple is so silent on these issues. Vague, general status updates. It would be great if they could raise the bar on that, both on the Status page and on app changelog notes. Some of their teams do a great job with this, but it's rare. Silence for future products is fine, but silence for existing products that people rely on ... not so good.
I'm not siding with Apple here, but I'm aware that they do use some of Amazon's AWS services. My free Outlook.com accounts were migrated from AWS to Azure - they work perfectly now. Two of my server services were moved from AWS to Azure earlier this year - they work perfectly now. One of my file sharing servers were moved from AWS to a co-located Mac Mini Server - it works perfectly now.
Netflix used/uses AWS. I use both Netflix and Prime Video - I'm still a bit surprised that Netflix often had "issues" but Prime Video always worked perfectly...
Apple's supposedly migrating some-to-all of its services from AWS - maybe those services will work perfectly now...?
Netflix used/uses AWS. I use both Netflix and Prime Video - I'm still a bit surprised that Netflix often had "issues" but Prime Video always worked perfectly...
Apple's supposedly migrating some-to-all of its services from AWS - maybe those services will work perfectly now...?
And that is why the executives are paid millions of dollars and such a large staff of professionals is deployed. The biggest "architectural design" issue is Cook as CEO / Eddy "the Slob" Cue as the operational executive. More and more it looks like Art Levinson is totally asleep as the board chair. So many people hired / so few products jumping out at us as innovative / so little time to right the ship.
I love Apple Music and use it often, but it can never replace music files I own on my own device. As long as I have battery my music is there.
Downloading updates now..now that this is back up and running is it safe for me to download the iPad Pro 9.7 update?
Does this Ship of Fools have a Captain? Apple is hurting, I suspect no leadership from Mr. Cook is at fault.
Yeah. Some stuff is working again. I just used the mac app store to update my printer software and it worked.
Yet it is still yellow on the system status page for mac app store:
I have had an issue for the last 3 months with my iCloud. It started after I upgraded to 1TB of storage so that I could store all my photos and videos in the cloud. After that I can no longer log into iCloud on a new mac. I can however login online but once there I can not access photos, notes, contacts, iCloud drive, or any iWork apps. If I try to open iCloud preferences on any mac or iOS device i own that is already connected to my iCloud the preferences panes crash. I have had an open case for 3 months for this. I have dealt with 4 or 5 Sr. Techs and they keep gathering info (screenshots and logs) from my mac and relaying the info to the engineering team but I never get to talk directly to them. It started as soon as my photos were uploaded. I finally got word last night that there is no issue with my account and that it was a server side issue that had to do with photos and other users have been experiencing similar issues. I was told that it would be fixed in a future update to iCloud but was told there was no ETA. I am really hoping this is them fixing it. I have a new iMac I can't log into iCloud on and get to any of my data. Really frustrating.
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- Siri, turn right.
- Are you sure you want to turn left?
- Right, Siri, right!
- I'm sorry but I can't 'fight'. I'm just a smart digital assistant, you know.
- Siri, just stop the car here and let me out.
- Ok, I'm googling for you "stop the car here and let me out". Here are the first 5000 results.
- Open the door!
- Ok, I'm openi... sorry, internet connection is unavailable. Try again in a few minutes.
I seem to remember years ago some big wig asking why MM did not work as is was intended.
Can't remember who that could have been though...
Can't remember who that could have been though...
you spent a fortune on these walls
Just gold and elixir. I spent $10 one time on gems. Been working on it for over 3 years and still a townhall 9.
Doesn't seem like I suggested anything other than what I mentioned in my post.
That said, to comment on what you bring up, there have been even days long outages with Google: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/google-gmail-outage_n_830229.html as well as Microsoft: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-has-a-9-day-long-office-365-outage-2016-1
Also, even short and perhaps less frequent outages for some entries like Google, Microsoft, and/or Amazon can be much much more impactful on many more things given that they could affect many other services/products/companies out there beyond just their own: http://fortune.com/2016/04/13/googles-cloud-computing-turbulence/ and/or http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/08/snapchat-is-experiencing-an-extended-outage/
So just as there might be differences in frequency and timing (although even in timing it seems they have all seen long outages here and there too), there can also be differences in impact as well.
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Yes, an outage certainly means that, just like most other companies must be in that kind of a state because they all go through some sort of issues and/or outages at one time or another.