I am furious near apoplectic.
I will echo those others who have pointed to this as obscene, incompetent, unforgiveable, inexcusable and far from the first time Apple has failed with the cloud.
People are having issues with their lives, people are losing money all because Apple can't even begin to get it together.
All this while another glorious product dependent on the cloud is unveiled, and they can't be counted on to make the cloud actually work.
Fire people or farm the operation out.
[Feel free to insert foul language of your preference here]
Are you really complaining about a FREE service? You know Gmail has also had it's share of outages right? If you want uptime, pay for it. Don't bitch about a free service. Apple or not.