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[MERGED] iMessage down?
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Sh**t yes, not only imessage and face time, as Apple says. But ios appstore also not workin (last time worked 17 nov evening UK) after that nothing, "Can't connect to this sh**t itunes store" and somthing affecting to Youtube app same error
Having the same problem as you and also on Verizon. For now I turned off imessages as it will drain battery trying to activate.
I was having problems on Friday. Wife sent texts that never delivered and I also noticed problems redeeming on iTunes Store. Had problems all weekend, some (texts not iMessages) not delivering, some delivering minutes later. AT&T just activated LTE in my area too, so was wondering if that had anything to do with it since this didn't happen before then. Rebooted my phone and though oh crap, time to take it to the geekbar.
i think alot of the stocks issue is not do with tim cook's ability, but simply where apple is heading: they are taking their physical craft of products to the xtreme, the unibody process was probably high maintenance but doing all the colour aluminium, and aluminium phones, iPads, with new ways to design how the glass meets the edge, callibrating iMacs on the line, a new process in welding iMac's unibody's together in conjunction with its rediculously unnecessary thin design - its no surprise.
There are many examples of Apple messes that happened under Steve Job's reign.
Do you remember the MobileMe launch? You know, the one that went sooooo poorly for such a long time that Walt Mossberg of the WSJ (you know, the one that never has anything negative to say about an Apple product/service) wrote the infamous "Apple's MobileMe is far too flawed to be reliable" review?
Do you remember scuffgate with the original iPad nanos, where Apple lost a class action lawsuit because they scratched so easily? Original owners were eligible for a settlement check worth $37.50. That was Steve Jobs.
Do you remember when the iMacs got the LED screens and many had the issue with the yellow tint? It took 16 weeks of owners and tech blogs hollering at them before they made their first public comment about it. Again, Steve Jobs.
Honestly, there are probably at least 10 other high profile examples of Apple not executing properly over the last 7 years. All under the helm of Steve Jobs.
When I look at Apple since Cook has taken over, it looks exactly like "business as usual". They're not perfect, but they don't seem to be messing up any more than they did before, either.
My LTE mini's original delivery date was NEXT Friday (11/23). It was delivered last Thursday AM (11/15). From reading the forums here, I'm not the only one receiving my LTE mini over a week early, either.
I'm a little more pessimistic and assume it's just an outage. I'm wondering how Apple will push out iTunes 11 in just one more week since employees have Thanksgiving week off.
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iPhone 5 still stuck on "Waiting for activation..." while my iMac can send iMessages.
It's not just Apple. I've noticed more of these outages occurring recently with other companies as well.
Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Netflix... all have had outages.
I will say Facebook and Dropbox have the most consistent uptime of any service I've ever used.
I'm a little more pessimistic and assume it's just an outage. I'm wondering how Apple will push out iTunes 11 in just one more week since employees have Thanksgiving week off.
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iPhone 5 still stuck on "Waiting for activation..." while my iMac can send iMessages.
iMessages working with email addresses because it probably was easy to verify those addresses. However, waiting to activate using phone number instead, is probably an issue with each mobile provider and trying to verify each phone number with iMessages. Throw in it's a sunday, and you probably have limited IT staff at both Apple and Mobile providers.