Apple Dev Center outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by eni9889 » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 2:14 AM UTC

perlpimp wrote: post #110

anonymous has been hitting targets listed in Prism presentation of late - could be one of the anonymous' casualties?

Even if that were true one would think that with all the resources Apple has they would be able to handle a DDOS. It would be nice if this was intentional but sadly judging by how long its been thats very unlikely so DDOS is possible.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by eni9889 » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 2:16 AM UTC

LokiSnake wrote: post #115

ValG wrote: post #81

Forums are now down as well.

Forums were down since yesterday for at least 24 hours as well.

I was able to access them for quite a while even long enough to read complaints about the outage. Wonder if they just turned them off to prevent all the would be posts about the downtime

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by AsymetricCom » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 2:43 AM UTC

estel wrote: post #116

AsymetricCom wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, being able to develop applications for the largest growing and well known ecosystem since Windows 95 is not a big deal if you live under a rock and eat grubs. In fact, I can't remember the last time software had a significant impact on the greater physical world since 0.223μs ago. Too bad mobile applications on walled garden platforms never caught on, I was hoping to witness all the fun drama and obvious securit…

Sorry, but what's that got to do with iOS7? Parent wasn't saying that the dev centre being down isn't a bad thing, just that iOS7 incompatibility errors aren't high on the priority list yet.

The first to market with support for iOS 7 are obviously going to have a huge advantage over other App developers. the SDK being down for every developer without access to alternative platforms for their dev stack are now put back on schedule plus the length of the outage. Again, first to market in such a large market is a huge advantage, providing social and technical momentum, making or breaking careers and enterprises for those who depend on Apple's generous returns. Entire companies can be birthed or go splat due to variables like this. It's a risk they app devs are aware of, but that doesn't mean it isn't a Big Deal.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by iNeal » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 3:02 AM UTC

stokedmartin wrote: post #105

this is screwed up too http://devimages.apple.com/

It has always been.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by rdl » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 3:44 AM UTC

jfb wrote: post #120

ferdo wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple is a small team?

Apple teams are much smaller than is often assumed.

OTOH they outsource a lot. From the people I've talked to at vendors "they (Apple) just don't fucking care" is what I've been hearing on this incident, which makes me think it's nothing technically interesting.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by general_failure » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 4:46 AM UTC

whiddershins wrote: post #62

I find it curious no apple rep is here, commenting on this post.

Apple employees are not supposed to have any real online presence. Kinda sad that anyone wants to work there really.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by mlarratt » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 5:45 AM UTC

monkey_slap wrote: post #40

jbermudez5 wrote: post #8

Just when you need to send an adhoc build.....

Check out Nomad, it's by Mattt (of AFNetworking fame). http://nomad-cli.com/

This uses web scraping of the developer portal behind the scenes, and as a result the Cupertino module is unusable during this outage.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by josephlord » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 8:21 AM UTC

martin_ wrote: post #114

Apple has just updated the page stating that memberships due to expire today have been extended and apps will not be removed from the App Store. They have also apologized for it taking "longer than expected"

I also just received an email to this effect even though I have already renewed.

Also the iTunes connect mobile app seems to be working still.

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by xuki » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 10:19 AM UTC

josephlord wrote: post #128

martin_ wrote: post #114

Apple has just updated the page stating that memberships due to expire today have been extended and apps will not be removed from the App Store. They have also apologized for it taking "longer than expected"

I also just received an email to this effect even though I have already renewed. Also the iTunes connect mobile app seems to be working still.

iTunes connect works fine, just the dev portal is down

Re: Apple Dev Center outage

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Post by madeofpalk » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 10:19 AM UTC

skyebook wrote: post #101

Interesting, it looks like the WebObjects application(s) has actually been undeployed. I poked around the main developer.apple.com for a bit until I got here: https://developer.apple.com/programs/start/safari/enroll.php... Clicking the "Individual" button on the bottom throws up a WebObjects error: http://i.imgur.com/xcfZ5ip.png (Yes, that's probably the smallest I've ever made my Safari window. You're welcome, mobil…

Well that is a bit interesting. The message from AppleConnect (being the auth platform that is behind the"Apple ID") indicates that the "Developer" application has been revoked and is no longer allowed to auth with AppleConnect.

Perhaps there was a security breach?