I was just stating it reminded me of something. Don't get so PMS on me. Shouldn't you be blogging about how hard it is to cope with menopause?
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Apple's iCloud and iMessage Services Experiencing Significant Outage [Update: Resolved]
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I was just stating it reminded me of something. Don't get so PMS on me. Shouldn't you be blogging about how hard it is to cope with menopause?
Hey, for you people that think Apple should have 100% uptime for a free consumer service, here's the deal: they will be the first to tell you they're not business-class. They're not mission critical. Read the terms and conditions service for iCloud. It is specific. It only commits to best attempts at service. It's for consumers.
Folks, read the iCloud terms and conditions carefully. Understand what it is - and what it is NOT.
http://www.apple.com/legal/icloud/en/terms.html
Specifically: YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. APPLE AND ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN PARTICULAR, APPLE AND ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, PARTNERS AND LICENSORS MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (I) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (II) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE TIMELY, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; (III) ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; AND (IV) ANY DEFECTS OR ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICE WILL BE CORRECTED.
APPLE DOES NOT REPRESENT OR GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE FREE FROM LOSS, CORRUPTION, ATTACK, VIRUSES, INTERFERENCE, HACKING, OR OTHER SECURITY INTRUSION, AND APPLE DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY RELATING THERETO.
Gang, I'm no lawyer, and I don't work for Apple. They're only providing a CONSUMER service as is, and if something doesn't work right, it's free and they are within their legal rights to fix it or not fix it. PR is going to dictate this response. This service is for consumers, not for businesses...and there's no uptime dictated by terms of service, nor functionality implied.
100% uptime is just not realistic with any cloud service. Anything less than that seems unacceptable to some of you...and I think you don't work in IT.
LOL I'm sorry that's hilarious (and a sad commentary on our modern day society). I tend to picture scenarios when described, that was a good one.
Oops... Looks like an actual cloud floated over Apple's solar powered server farm at Maiden, NC, and put 'em iCloud out of action for a spell!
Yea, Go Solar!
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LOL I'm sorry that's hilarious (and a sad commentary on our modern day society). I tend to picture scenarios when described, that was a good one.
I aim to please. It was more for entertainment purposes than criticism.
Thank goodness these iGadgets were designed with miniscule storage,
no way to expand storage and no ports to do highspeed local back ups.
Sometimes innovation is just inconvenient.
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So you're say that everybody's junk is junk?
That the simple and it just works stuff is just as bad as everything else?
Except some people amusingly pay more for it?
Do you really want to do that?
no way to expand storage and no ports to do highspeed local back ups.
Sometimes innovation is just inconvenient.
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So you're say that everybody's junk is junk?
That the simple and it just works stuff is just as bad as everything else?
Except some people amusingly pay more for it?
Do you really want to do that?
as it turns out, it was the issues at Apple that caused my password problems with encryption backups last night and this morning.
u should not be so quick to post a reply next time. 2+2 = 4 not 3 or 5
You forgot to mention EMP. Although if we get nuked I would guess no one will care.
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.25 for one text msg?
Do you actually have insider knowledge of the configuration of the Apple systems or are you just assuming based on things you've read on forums and rumour websites?
Whilst there may only be one or two Apple owned data centres I would be amazed if they weren't using additional facilities to spread the load or replicate for failover. Plus we know for a fact that at least some part of iCloud runs on Amazon and Microsoft clouds and that the majority if not all of content delivery is provided by Akamai.
I've never seen anything to suggest Apple's online services are any less reliable than others either. Google and Amazon have had some pretty bad outages over the last year or two, far worse than anything Apple have experienced.
Part of the problem with very cheap cloud services (such as iCloud) is that it simply wouldn't be cost effective to provide the highest level of fault tolerance as that kind of tech is very, very expensive. Last time I checked the VMware bells and whistles package cost around $20k a server.
so ur saying, that my encrypted backups on icloud are pass-worded locally? that would make no sense. why then would u backup to icloud, if u need to be at ur local pc with itunes to access them?
While I'm sure Amazon has more than Apple, Apple has more than 1. Don't know how they structure data flow and location, though.
The local credentials are used - so that identifying yourself with the proper credentials is all that is needed.
Any secure cloud service will encrypt at the source - the clear text is never on the wires or across the cloud servers.
Even using SSL or similar encryption on the wire isn't secure - the clear text will be visible on the server even if the server does strong encryption before sending it to persistent storage.
You do not want the cloud to be able to see your data.
My iMessage only works 10% of the time anyway. I got iMessage as soon as they released it, and it's never been reliable.
Since we got an unlimited ripoff texting plan just for my grandma and mom, I just use SMS because iMessage rarely works.
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I get 30mbps when downloading stuff from iTunes. Apple servers are fast for iTunes at least.
Since we got an unlimited ripoff texting plan just for my grandma and mom, I just use SMS because iMessage rarely works.
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I get 30mbps when downloading stuff from iTunes. Apple servers are fast for iTunes at least.
that's why there's something called file caching
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File caching only works if the device your using has updated itself with the latest files....
After receiving and writing several emails this morning, suddenly error messages appeared that the server couldn't be found/connected. Spent at least two hours troubleshooting (Apple's website still referred to a resolved outage several months ago).
Gave up after multiple resets of all Mac & iOS devices, plus some app deletions . FINALLY, an admission that the Apple iCloud servers were down.
Wish that had been posted earlier - before I spent enough time trying to fix it that I had to "undo" my fixes later.
However, this is a reminder that local backup and storage for critical data is way more reliable than any cloud, although using both could be an advantage. Depends on what is being stored where.
Gave up after multiple resets of all Mac & iOS devices, plus some app deletions . FINALLY, an admission that the Apple iCloud servers were down.
Wish that had been posted earlier - before I spent enough time trying to fix it that I had to "undo" my fixes later.
However, this is a reminder that local backup and storage for critical data is way more reliable than any cloud, although using both could be an advantage. Depends on what is being stored where.
