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Apple's iPhone Activation Servers Again Experiencing Outage

Dr McKay said:
Thats the most infuriating message ever, getting a shiny new iPhone and not being able to play with it, so you idly caress it and whispher sweet nothings to it instead, and tell it in great detail about all the things you're going to do to it once you get it activated.

I'm going to install apps on you... over and over again.... :cool:
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First world problems like this are really bad aren't they? Kinda makes one want to see what the third world is doing.
 
12vElectronics said:
This is a sign that you shouldn't be buying a new iPhone right now :D
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I don't think most people who just bought a new iPhone 5 will be upset in a couple of months that their iPhone doesn't have a fingerprint scanner and 13mp camera. Now, if Apple pulls a September surprise and announces the availability of a larger screen, some people would be pissed. Unlikely to happen, but if it does...some pissed people and AAPL goes up, up, up...(new iPad 5 will also help).
 
"This is outrageous!!" - Android user :mad:

At the rate macrumors reports these Apple would save a ton of money on monitoring software
 
I'm still unable to activate

But what's more is that I'm unable to activate and while I was getting the same message as the image, it's also saying that my UDID isn't registered..

I have a Dev account, the UDID is correct, and other than server errors I'm not quite sure why it isn't being verified.

I've tried activating on Cellular and my home Wi-Fi.

Oh well, at least it isn't my daily driver.
 
brand said:
Do you even have a clue about what it takes on the backend infrastructure/data center side to keep the day to day operations running? :rolleyes:
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Do you? ;)

Apple clearly don't. They have regular (almost weekly) issues with slowdowns and outages on various services. In comparison the likes of Google and Amazon do the sensible thing and geographically load balance their systems. A datacenter in New York goes offline - No problem, auto redirect to Toronto and London.

Thats the purpose of the cloud - reliable online services. Apple still operate from 1 and a half datacenters (the half being a caching DC in California) and use Akamai for storage. If you know anything about advanced server networks you'll know that's stupidly insufficient for a company with every single device calling home twice an hour, not to mention iCloud services needing to be run.
 
And yesterday there was an outage of the itunes and appstore. Seems like apple is having some issues with their servers.
 
brand said:
Do you even have a clue about what it takes on the backend infrastructure/data center side to keep the day to day operations running? :rolleyes:
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I agree with you. One gerbil is not enough for apple, I think they have two of them. And there are rumors that google have 3 gerbils in each datacenter.
 
brand said:
Do you even have a clue about what it takes on the backend infrastructure/data center side to keep the day to day operations running? :rolleyes:
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How dare people expect their premium devices to be usable out of the box!
 
rmwebs said:
Do you? ;)

Apple clearly don't. They have regular (almost weekly) issues with slowdowns and outages on various services. In comparison the likes of Google and Amazon do the sensible thing and geographically load balance their systems. A datacenter in New York goes offline - No problem, auto redirect to Toronto and London.

Thats the purpose of the cloud - reliable online services. Apple still operate from 1 and a half datacenters (the half being a caching DC in California) and use Akamai for storage. If you know anything about advanced server networks you'll know that's stupidly insufficient for a company with every single device calling home twice an hour, not to mention iCloud services needing to be run.
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I agree with your points.
God knows what these sons of *itches are using for their servers. I heard they even use Azure for iCloud, They prolly use more Windows crap too lol.
But it's hard to be good at 'everything' seems webservices will always be an issue for them.
 
My sons iphone crapped out at his work and he needed to restore. He called me with this issue, but I saw no reports of another outage. Guess there was, he got activated about an hour ago.

Called AT&T, of course they said no outage. They are never up to speed as fast as these boards.
 
lkrupp said:
First world problems like this are really bad aren't they? Kinda makes one want to see what the third world is doing.
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Well seeing as I live in the 1st World, yes, I suffer from 1st World Problems. Who'd have guessed? :rolleyes:

Does people having worse problems than you make your problems go away? No. Are they worse? Yes.

If you really wonder what's going on in the 3rd World, go and see. If you want to help them, help charities, it goes further than snarky comments on the internet. I give monthly to 3 separate charities in Africa to help pay for a School, a Doctor in another village, and a well in a 3rd.
 
daneoni said:
Ugh...that grey linen. So glad they've binned it.

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You can't be serious?

EVERY iPhone in existence has needed activation via Apple servers.
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1) Agreed on that linen part. Linen can go to hell and annoy the crap out of the devil himself.

2) Well "back in the day" probably referred to phones in general. Nowhere did he mention iPhones. He specifically said phones ("we didn't have to 'activate' our phones")
And to be honest, I agree.

(Sidenote/off topic: I can see why activation is a bonus with the stolen phones getting rendered useless, then again you could achieve the same by Push. When iPhone gets internet it immediately connects to Apple anyways. Since nobody wants an offline-only iPhone that kinda becomes the anti-theft connection.
Oh meh...)

Glassed Silver:mac
 
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