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Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by res0nat0r »

freehunter wrote: post #85
spartango wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Silence really doesn't imply anything except that the responsible parties are busy fixing things and that there may not be hands free/allocated to communicate with the outside world. IMO not communicating with the outside world is a fail, but I've seen delays in this when small teams suddenly get swamped.

I'm sure that the PR department is not busy fixing this technical issue.

PR isn't the best department to post updates regarding technical issues. The technical people who understand the issue are, and they are possibly busy fixing the problem right now.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by ferdo »

spartango wrote: post #61
ferdo wrote: post #53

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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.

Silence really doesn't imply anything except that the responsible parties are busy fixing things and that there may not be hands free/allocated to communicate with the outside world. IMO not communicating with the outside world is a fail, but I've seen delays in this when small teams suddenly get swamped.

Apple is a small team?

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by k-mcgrady »

warcher wrote: post #69
ctdonath wrote: post #65

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Well, apply the standard Apple social introversion: it's down, they're telling you it's down and will be for a while, it will be back up as soon as they can fix it, what exactly is wrong isn't your problem, when it's back up you'll know and it won't matter what happened so long as it gets up and stays up.

Well, the App Store is how I make my living, so their developer portal's uptime directly affects me. Especially if it was a security breach. And the argument that it won't matter as long as it gets up and stays up has already been invalidated by this outage. If they were perfectly in control, this wouldn't have happened. So we know for a fact that they are not 100% in control of the website. (I mean, obviously, 100%…

>> "Well, the App Store is how I make my living, so their developer portal's uptime directly affects me."

How much is this outage affecting you? You can still provision devices etc. through Xcode, documentation's still online. I'm also a full-time iOS developer and hadn't even noticed it had gone down I go to it so infrequently.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by ctdonath »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #93
warcher wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, the App Store is how I make my living, so their developer portal's uptime directly affects me. Especially if it was a security breach. And the argument that it won't matter as long as it gets up and stays up has already been invalidated by this outage. If they were perfectly in control, this wouldn't have happened. So we know for a fact that they are not 100% in control of the website. (I mean, obviously, 100%…

>> "Well, the App Store is how I make my living, so their developer portal's uptime directly affects me." How much is this outage affecting you? You can still provision devices etc. through Xcode, documentation's still online. I'm also a full-time iOS developer and hadn't even noticed it had gone down I go to it so infrequently.

I need (!) to document a sequence of steps thru a process in the Member Center. Can't do that if I can't get to the Member Center.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by LokiSnake »

aroman wrote: post #88
glhaynes wrote: post #55

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

No, of course not. It makes it unreliable as an indicator of the Apple ecosystem's platform status. Which would be fine, were this not the only such status page Apple provides. I'm saying it's lacking, not broken.

The page is meant to track consumer services.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by salahxanadu »

davidedicillo wrote: post #51
millerm wrote: post #30

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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)

Argh! I'm in the same boat. I'm 2 days from expiration and I have the activation code. I just couldn't do it at work and forgot to update my home computer Xcode the one evening that I had a chance before this outage.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by hamxiaoz »

It's interesting I was trying to download xcode commandline tools for setting up my new mac, the website was down but you can still download it in xcode download panel. (assuming you already have xcode installed).
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