Wait, does this mean the entire Cloud is down? I can still access Google and Amazon.
Apple Dev Center outage
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Re: Apple Dev Center outage
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That comment wasn't constructive the first 2 times.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No, they don't, and I'm among those who have received negative reviews from people running beta releases in the past. There's absolutely nothing you can do about it (flagging a review has never had any success for me).
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#44Earlier 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…
> There's a huge community of non-developers who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, love to put beta OSes on their phones.
I know of some affluent high-schoolers who seem to consider it prestigious if you can show off a prerelease iOS on your phone.
Re: Apple Dev Center outage
#45Something real, real bad happened down Apple way. The only explanation that passes the sniff test for me is a security breach. A big one. Playstation store big. I mean, it's a huge outage in the middle of the week. Nobody does that if something hasn't gone disastrously wrong. And iffy as Apple's web infrastructure historically has been, it's hard to imagine a system malfunction that they couldn't route around in some kind of reduced capacity in this amount of time.
So. Is Apple gonna drop trou and own up to what the hell happened, or are they gonna get the servers back up and pretend that we saw all this smoke and no fire?
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If it was planned maintenance, it probably would have happened before WWDC and the iOS 7 betas.
Why? They do maintenance at different points throughout the year.
Wild speculation. But it would make sense to schedule maintenance for a relatively low-traffic period.
Re: Apple Dev Center outage
#47Amusingly (or perhaps frustratingly) their status site is showing all-systems-go: http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
Re: Apple Dev Center outage
#48Amusingly (or perhaps frustratingly) their status site is showing all-systems-go: http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
None of those are within the Developer Center. It's very possible for those to be up and running while dev portal is down.
Re: Apple Dev Center outage
#49Amusingly (or perhaps frustratingly) their status site is showing all-systems-go: http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
None of those are within the Developer Center. It's very possible for those to be up and running while dev portal is down.
Right, that page doesn't even have the capability of reporting this outage. Kind of makes it a bit unreliable as a status page, you know?
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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.
Except for the AWS EBS outage a couple of years ago which had nothing to do with a security breach.
http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/
Cascading catastrophic failures do happen that don't involve security.