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iMessage Again Down for Some Users [Updated]

iCloud mail not working... sent a couple of emails from Mail via my .me and .icloud accounts, and they don't arrive to their destinations.

Quite annoying...

Lesson learned (again, after .mac and .me)... NEVER depend on Apple for online services.
 
CJK said:
Considering Apple's track record with its online services, why would you assume it's a problem on your end?
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Because it works on my MBA, iMac and iPad 2... and not my iPhone 5..
Kind of weird if 3/4 of my devices are working on the same account. You would think if it was a sever problem, my entire account would be offline.
 
Mlrollin91 said:
Because it works on my MBA, iMac and iPad 2... and not my iPhone 5..
Kind of weird if 3/4 of my devices are working on the same account. You would think if it was a sever problem, my entire account would be offline.
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I suspect it depends on the particular server your device is connecting to. FWIW, I've had the same experience: problems on my iPhone but not my iPad.

Sorry you wasted all that time. :/
 
CJK said:
I suspect it depends on the particular server your device is connecting to. FWIW, I've had the same experience: problems on my iPhone but not my iPad.

Sorry you wasted all that time. :/
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Haha thank you. And yeah, its really weird. It got to the point where I thought I had a defective phone, and so did the 3 reps that I spoke to. It wasn't until I got to the the 4th, the Senior Advisor, who said she needed to contact the engineers to see what is going on. Then this thread started.

UPDATE: All devices of mine are back online and syncing with each other! Finally!
 
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Apple really needs to step up their ability to maintain iCloud if they want to compete with Google. This has become a major problem as Google expands their reach into hardware (Apple's core strength).

As Ian Betteridge put it:

Google can do hardware with the same attention to detail and quality that Apple does. It’s not a shot across Apple’s bows, but more putting a flag in the ground that says “Come on Cupertino, we can do hardware — you think you can do services?”
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John Gruber said:
Google is getting better at what Apple does best faster than Apple is getting better at what Google does best
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I've noticed that whenever things like this start consistently happening it means that Apple is about to send out an event invitation. Seriously, the last 2 times stuff like this happened there were events (I don't remember exactly when but I paid attention to it). I bet we see event invitations in the next 2 weeks.
 
monaarts said:
I've noticed that whenever things like this start consistently happening it means that Apple is about to send out an event invitation. Seriously, the last 2 times stuff like this happened there were events (I don't remember exactly when but I paid attention to it). I bet we see event invitations in the next 2 weeks.
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What a great way to get people excited about an upcoming Apple event!
 
WestonHarvey1 said:
What a great way to get people excited about an upcoming Apple event!
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I'm being serious... I bet it has something to do with them testing systems or configuring the systems to work with new devices and/or software. They probably have to take it offline to work on it or something.
 
It's crap like this that stops me from fully embracing iCloud and switching over my e-mail from Gmail. In the couple years I've had my Gmail account, NEVER has it been down for me. It's one of those services that I just expect to be up 100% of the time.
 
monaarts said:
I'm being serious... I bet it has something to do with them testing systems or configuring the systems to work with new devices and/or software. They probably have to take it offline to work on it or something.
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So they don't even have a development environment for testing? If that's the case, Apple's services are in worse shape than anyone could imagine.
 
Am I the only one who seems to allows have iMessage problems. I will be talking to someone and messages will fail and they want me to resend as text so I do and they work then it switches back to iMessage again does it all again. It's annoying
 
Up to now I can't download from the app store... it started to do so yesterday evening....
 
0029937 said:
It's crap like this that stops me from fully embracing iCloud and switching over my e-mail from Gmail. In the couple years I've had my Gmail account, NEVER has it been down for me. It's one of those services that I just expect to be up 100% of the time.
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WestonHarvey1 said:
So they don't even have a development environment for testing? If that's the case, Apple's services are in worse shape than anyone could imagine.
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Combchris said:
Am I the only one who seems to allows have iMessage problems. I will be talking to someone and messages will fail and they want me to resend as text so I do and they work then it switches back to iMessage again does it all again. It's annoying
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srsub3 said:
Up to now I can't download from the app store... it started to do so yesterday evening....
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Since much of the Apple network traffic is being affected, I still think it might be a cyber attack on Apple.
 
Glassed Silver said:
Oh and please: take data integrity a bit more serious. HFS+ is a subpar filesystem and an iMac with 32GB RAM should be able to run ZFS or another data integrity checking and fixing filesystem in the 21st century.
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Aside from this having nothing to do with iMessage, what exactly do you think is wrong with HFS+ that makes it subpar or lacking data integrity? It supports transparent encryption, POSIX file permissions and ACLs, Journalling, 8 Exabyte file sizes...

Of course if you really want to use ZFS on a Mac, you can.
 
I had iMessage issues the other day, but none today.

But, as others have mentioned, downloads from the App Store are not working.

In general though iMessage has been very reliable for me and all those I communicate with who use it.
 
Raftysworld said:
Works fine for me. Android users stirring trouble this morning? :confused:
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Plutonius said:
Since much of the Apple network traffic is being affected, I still think it might be a cyber attack on Apple.
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Plutonius said:
Since much of the Apple network traffic is being affected, I still think it might be a cyber attack on Apple.
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I think you are right, there's a massive attack underway on servers globally, with a ton in the US targeted. More than 90,000 distinctive IP addresses are attempting to brute force admin credentials, and a quite a fair percentage succeeding.

From an Ars commenter "According to Matthew Prince - CEO of CloudFlare - the botnet can attempt 2 billion different password combinations in 1 hour."

Here's the link to the article --the comments are extremely interesting:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/huge-attack-on-wordpress-sites-could-spawn-never-before-seen-super-botnet/

This attack is slowing down the whole internet.
 
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