Same here. Just redownloaded my book on my iPhone and updated Twitter on my Mac.
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Same here. Just redownloaded my book on my iPhone and updated Twitter on my Mac.
Hopefully not through the 3G data plans offered to us consumers. I don't think Apple has enough cash on hand to cover that.
what are you talking about?
it's $30 for data per month. are you saying apple can't afford $30? it just may take a century but it will be cheap.....I couldn't download updates for apps on my iPhone a couple of hours ago. Works now.
Located in Denmark, Europe.
Located in Denmark, Europe.
All of you saying this is probably in prep for iCloud should be pissed if this is the case.
If this is how Apple "preps" for a major launch, they need to fire the project managers and tech team now.
Pre-production launch activities should NEVER impact live systems... ever.
Taking a page offline for a few minutes is Apple's typical MO when they are ready to put new products in the online store, but we all know when it's going to happen.
I suspect they are having deeper issues unrelated to the iCloud launch, or they have an incompetent team doing migrations.
If this is how Apple "preps" for a major launch, they need to fire the project managers and tech team now.
Pre-production launch activities should NEVER impact live systems... ever.
Taking a page offline for a few minutes is Apple's typical MO when they are ready to put new products in the online store, but we all know when it's going to happen.
I suspect they are having deeper issues unrelated to the iCloud launch, or they have an incompetent team doing migrations.
HobeSoundDarryl
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what are you talking about?
No, the comment to which I replied was about moving all of the iTunes content to the NC servers. I made a joke about hoping that Apple wasn't having to pay the AT&T or Verizon broadband rate for moving all of that data (because I doubt Apple has enough cash to cover the move if they have to pay what we pay for each 2GB).
Just a joke though. I'm sure that Apple isn't using 3G for the migration. I'm mostly poking fun at the lunacy of 2GB costing $25 or $30 and lots of people being so excited about wanting to push everything they have to the iCloud and stream everything from there. ONE iTunes movie can exceed 2GB.
The concept of iCloud works a little better with current home broadband limits often at about $30-$60/month for caps (currently at around 250GB). But of course, if you're at home, you already can stream all your media via wifi and not even involve an iCloud or a Comcast, AT&T, etc.
Regardless, I have ZERO expectations that 250GB home broadband for about $45/month will stay there as streaming demands go up. I expect those 250GB caps to work their way down and that $45/month to work its way up. Why? That's very profitable for the broadband gatekeepers with no local competition (who you going to switch to?). The alternative is keeping the price and caps about the same but building out lots of additional infrastructure to handle growing demand (that's tremendously unprofitable). Which do you think the likes of AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, etc will choose?
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i was joking as well. of course apple is not using 3g. i would assume they even transfer several physical hard drives instead of sending the data.
however I still don't understand why it should be more expensive to use 3g. it's $30 per month not more. just slow. very sloooooow.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
It's $30/month for up to 2GB, not $30/month for unlimited GB. If you use the 2GB in 1 hour (say for streaming as little as 1 movie from iTunes), you have to pay more for another 2GB.
Or are you joking again? Or maybe one of the few still grandfathered in the unlimited 3G plan that lasted about 3 weeks when the first iPad launched?
Mobileme performance has been really crappy the past few weeks too. My mobileme account in ical deletes itself often and on several different machines. Very annoying. Wondering if Apple will give me a credit for being affected by their system upgrades.
I have heard that the services are running however, due to a routing issue, all traffic into the data center is running through a tethered iPhone. This may cause some slowdown.
On the other hand, as a stock holder, I do recommend that everyone keep purchasing stuff as fast as they can to help check on the system.
Won't ever happen. I doubt they're that smart & capable to be able to hack into the Apple servers.
Won't ever happen. I doubt they're that smart & capable to be able to hack into the Apple servers.
Oh, I think they are.
Yeah, right.
Once I interviewed in Wall Street eight months after some merger of a couple of brokerage firms. To get to the tech interview I had to step over these thick cables snaking all over the floor, some of which then went out a window (we were on the 18th floor) and across a street to another building on a higher floor. The job was something about "oversight of completion of backoffice operations merge into system ready for migration to new datacenter next year."Well I understood the pressure to get past the gig of cables hanging across a New York street: the new datacenter was in New Jersey.
But I was curious about prospects for work at the new datacenter after the (consulting) job to finish up the merge, so I asked about it. The guy smiled. He said "I'm sure there'll be plenty of work... have you ever done a datacenter migration? It's a flippin' goldmine for systems admin consultants. All the stuff anyone ever did wrong comes out of the woodwork, module by module by module, line by line by line, call by call by call. And that's after you get past the stuff like electrical overloads and circuits that won't stay closed and outlets in the wrong places and so forth."
Sure that was a long time ago. But on that score, I'd bet not much has changed.
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Updated ~750MB of iPhoto 9.1.3 while everyone else was having problems.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused everyone else.
Updated ~750MB of iPhoto 9.1.3 while everyone else was having problems.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused everyone else.
