Oh my role was simply single out your hyperbolic and apologist posts that regulars on these boards have long been aware of. You might want to start on your backlog of wild claims if you're looking to be anal and requesting proof of exaggerated statements.
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iCloud and iTunes Experiencing Widespread Outage [Updated]
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Right? And remember how OS 9 didn't have protected memory? I know it's a little off topic, but how obnoxious was that?
I kid, I kid. What's interesting about this is I know I've gotten email since 8:30 pacific time, so I guess I'm not affected? These wide spread failures always seem to miss me somehow. I'll just be over here counting my blessings I guess.
It's been off and on for hours where I am. Sometime on for awhile, then going off/on very quickly.
Trying to get business done this way makes me want to look into non-Apple alternatives.
Trying to get business done this way makes me want to look into non-Apple alternatives.
march 11 - Apple: Services back after major outage
april 1 - Latest Apple service outage affecting App Store & iTunes
may 21 - Outage alert: 11 Apple services are having serious problems this morning
yes may not be every 2 weeks but often enough
Not on any system. Only those poorly architected and coded allowing limitless guesses. Like Apple used to allow. So it wasn't guessing, it was brute force via alogorithym.
iTunes Store, Mac App Store appear to be having issues now (at least in New Zealand) getting "The server gave an error during download: 503 Service Unavailable." in the Mac App Store, while iTunes App Store downloads just complain the store is temporarily unavailable.
And the status page is now reflecting that.
And the status page is now reflecting that.
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Pfff, only back up for me since late last night. They need to get their ducks in order so this doesnt happen as often as it does now.
To the guys arguing about Apple vs Google, I can tell you that Gmail's IMAP authentication is really hit-and-miss. That's half the reason I've stopped using it in favor of iCloud and AOL (yeah seriously, AOL's mail just works).