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Re: Apple Dev Center outage

#33

Post by rgbrenner »

ferdo wrote: post #26
amccloud wrote: post #21

I'm grasping at straws here, but maybe it was a security breach?

My first thought also.

Why? There's really no reason to think that. Of all of the things that can go wrong - power, equipment, network, etc - you pick 'security breach'... Not impossible.. but not the most likely either.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

#35

Post by ben1040 »

mikeash wrote: post #15
k-mcgrady wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that really so urgent? The majority of the people using iOS 7 are developers, understand apps will be buggy under it and wouldn't leave a bad review. I'm sure an extra few hours wait won't make too much difference :)

I don't know about that. There's a huge community of non-developers who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, love to put beta OSes on their phones. I'd wager they outnumber legitimate developers using the beta by a hefty margin. And a lot of them don't understand the implications of doing this. Stories of unjustified bad reviews being left by users like these due to poor behavior on iOS 7 are really common in the commun…

Does the App Store block reviews from beta OS users? Maybe what needs to happen is if you load a beta OS on a device, it should block reviews from any Apple IDs that were associated with that device until the OS is generally available.

After all, they do warn you that you should never install a beta OS on your daily use device and they are for development purposes only.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by outside1234 »

rgbrenner wrote: post #33
ferdo wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first thought also.

Why? There's really no reason to think that. Of all of the things that can go wrong - power, equipment, network, etc - you pick 'security breach'... Not impossible.. but not the most likely either.

Plus its Apple, who have proven themselves as amateurs at anything in the cloud.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by ferdo »

rgbrenner wrote: post #33
ferdo wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first thought also.

Why? There's really no reason to think that. Of all of the things that can go wrong - power, equipment, network, etc - you pick 'security breach'... Not impossible.. but not the most likely either.

Power, network, etc. have redundancy. Security breach is a show stopper.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

#39

Post by peterkelly »

mikeash wrote: post #15
k-mcgrady wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that really so urgent? The majority of the people using iOS 7 are developers, understand apps will be buggy under it and wouldn't leave a bad review. I'm sure an extra few hours wait won't make too much difference :)

I don't know about that. There's a huge community of non-developers who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, love to put beta OSes on their phones. I'd wager they outnumber legitimate developers using the beta by a hefty margin. And a lot of them don't understand the implications of doing this. Stories of unjustified bad reviews being left by users like these due to poor behavior on iOS 7 are really common in the commun…

If you're a non-developer and running a beta OS, you should know what you're getting into.

At the same time, I do feel sorry for devs getting bad reviews because of compatibility issues. I haven't had any myself, but it's probably only a matter of time.

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