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Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Right in the middle or renewing the our account. I need to activate the new license and, since I can't, people can't download our app from the store. Talking about fail...

You waited until the last day?

Well it was 2 days before... (I actually did it early but renewed by mistake another account we have)

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

#52
post #26

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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.

If something goes down without warning and there's no response from the organization about why it's down or when it will be back up, security incident is a natural line of thinking. Especially considering it is Apple, they'll likely keep quiet until they know exactly what is going on and how they will resolve it before saying anything on the matter.

If it was just power or network, they'd have it back online pretty quick. This seems like they're taking time to investigate something.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

#53
post #38

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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.

I'd think that Apple would be happy to tell us it was a simple power/network failure were that the case.

Sudden shutdown of vital service + silence = most likely a security prob.

I'm not saying that's what it is but it seems likely.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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post #53

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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.

I'd think that Apple would be happy to tell us it was a simple power/network failure were that the case. Sudden shutdown of vital service + silence = most likely a security prob. I'm not saying that's what it is but it seems likely.

Note that the AWS writeup above didn't get published until a week after the incident. Maybe they don't know enough of what is going on yet (hence why it is an outage in the first place, because something is breaking in unknown ways) and they are focusing on fixing it vs. tweeting status updates without any useful info every 15 minutes...

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

#55
post #49

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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?

:| It doesn't make it unreliable as a status page showing the status of those things it's intended to show the status of.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

#56
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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.

I'd think that Apple would prevent someone using a beta OS from ranking apps. Their disclaimer says to run it on equipment dedicated for testing. That would preclude everyday apps, and the need to leave ratings.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

#57
post #31

I predict the entry of a new phrase into our lexicon Bad antenna = "You're holding it wrong" Outage = "Extended Maintenance" http://i.imgur.com/14K9ogF.png

This is typical though. You don't really expect "Holy cow! Something is screwed up!!" from Microsoft, Apple, AT&T, Dell, Ford, etc, do you? Sassy/cute messages like that are the domain of Github and Twitter.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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post #11
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The entire Apple dev center is down. That makes it impossible to download the iOS or Mac SDKs, including the iOS 7 beta. It's also not possible to provision new devices or update expired certificates. The developer forums are down too, which is somewhat frustrating since that's the only place we can discuss the still-under-NDA iOS 7. iTunes connect appears to be up. Apologies for those who posted this earlier. The he…

No forum means no complaints which future developers can look back on...

Oddly enough, the forums went down sometime after the dev center. I was able to access them yesterday, and there were no posts on the issue. At the time, I figured that a new beta might be going up or that it was a short outage.
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