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Apple's Services Suffering Another Outage as iCloud Sign-In and iTunes Store Go Down
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I find it funny that people rush to Apple's defense by trying to throw Google and Microsoft under the bus... yet both of them have online services that don't quite have as much downtime as Apple.
Thanks for that highly detailed, technical review of iTunes, Bill. Now back to the studio...
You're kidding right? Last weeks Google's service outage made it to national mainstream news.
This made it to MacRumors...
Is it? They have been rumored to be hitting various systems around the country for weeks, allegedlythe whole government has a Godzilla* sized bug up their collective butts about the company etc.
Is it that much of a stretch to think they might be aware of how the media hypes things, especially negative ones, about Apple. Or how important today is to the company. Is it totally far fetched to think maybe someone is trying to gain leverage by doing a little damage to the company?
* and yes I know that Godzilla is Japanese
Seriously?
Gmail and Twitter are also experiencing outages. This isn't just an Apple thing. You people need to put your pitchforks away. Apple's iCloud service isn't perfect. Neither is any cloud service I've used. But it's better than MobileMe and works far more reliably than anything else I've used.
Gmail and Twitter are also experiencing outages. This isn't just an Apple thing. You people need to put your pitchforks away. Apple's iCloud service isn't perfect. Neither is any cloud service I've used. But it's better than MobileMe and works far more reliably than anything else I've used.
I think that Apple in general is below average in software quality. They excel in usability and looks, but usually they're week in overall software quality. Bugs don't get fixed for loooong time (i.e. their own implementation of samba), features are behind the competition (i.e. iWorks) and many software products don't scale well. It's like with italian cars: looks awesome, but breaks soon.
However, their OS, while based on something existing, is top-notch.
Somehow it does not happen to me. And iCloud breakdown has nothing to do with users' Windows or non Windows hardware.
Thanks for that highly detailed, technical review of iTunes, Bill. Now back to the studio...
There is no highly detailed technical review needed. It sucks. Seems like every update makes it worse. If you enjoy it....then great. Just a simple Google search shows Im not alone. Especially the latest update.
You can put all the little similes at the end you want. Doesn't help your post
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iTunes Connect is up, but book sales reports for yesterday are delayed. Nothing unusual about that, though.
Well at least my spam (recent bs) has temporarily stopped as my iCloud is down again. Apple must be fixing my spam attacks for me.
Users may incorrectly receive an authentication error when attempting to use iCloud. "
What does that even mean?
It means that if you input your password correctly iCloud will say its incorrect.
Hammered with Spam from iCloud?
I wonder if they are getting a denial of service attack of some kind. I'm getting spam that appears to be from an iCloud email, about 1 every 30 seconds to a minute.
I wonder if they are getting a denial of service attack of some kind. I'm getting spam that appears to be from an iCloud email, about 1 every 30 seconds to a minute.
