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Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by Mikeb85 »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #22
benihana wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you imagine if people could make the kind of money developing things for Linux that they do developing things for iOS? It would make comments like yours kind of funny and relevant.

I would wager more money is made via Linux than iOS by a fairly large margin.

> I would wager more money is made via Linux than iOS by a fairly large margin.

Without a doubt. IBM, Google, Amazon, and many, many others are deep in the Linux eco-system. Pretty much all supercomputing is done on Linux, and all the boring cloud/infrastructure/scientific stuff is done on Linux.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by Mikeb85 »

pbsdp wrote: post #15
NelsonMinar wrote: post #7

Could you imagine if the Linux Developer Center went down? It'd be nearly impossible to write Linux software, or download Linux development tools, or generate a Linux binary that a device was allowed to run. It'd be awful.

Can you imagine writing desktop software for Linux? Inconsistent APIs, API breakage, ABI breakage, sizable variances between distributions, multiple desktops UI implementations, and you may as well just forget about mobile. I'm not justifying Apple's ever increasing shift towards enacting strict constraints on their platform developers, but the comparison with Linux is pointless.

It's not that bad.

And if you're really concerned, you can just use the JVM.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by nknighthb »

e3pi wrote: post #78
nwh wrote: post #3

My money is personally on massive, unrecoverable data loss. If you've ever poked around with the way that Apple's website works, you can see that the entire place is a huge mess. There's old servers running ancient (pre-2004) perl scripts alongside the brand new iCloud gear. I can't imagine how the authentication for AppleID is working as login details still work on the ancient pages (think pinstripes and glassy butt…

> My money is personally on massive, unrecoverable data loss. Do we read this, you have an AAPL short order in tomorrow's market open? I find no financial news on this.

Through a combination of direct ownership and mutual funds, I own thousands of dollars of Apple stock, and would be materially harmed by a major drop in its price. I also own numerous Macs and iOS devices, and am indirectly harmed by Mac and iOS developers being unable to access code and information important to their work. The company I work for may also be harmed by this, as we engage in some iOS development (though I'm not directly involved in that these days).

I find the explanation of massive, unrecoverable data loss plausible, and your insinuation inane.

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Post by reinhardt »

nsxwolf wrote: post #175
amznthrowaway wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is false. I and my coworkers make plenty of money developing for Linux. Also, we're hiring: http://aws.amazon.com/sdejobs/

Do you all make money developing Linux software for consumers? Anything my mom may have used, perhaps?

And consumer software is the only one that matters because..? In any case if your mom uses the interwebz, she has probably used Linux software, both free and money-making.

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Post by esalman »

Just received following email- confirmed breach:

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.

In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by navs »

Apple just released an update (developers should be getting it in their inbox) but still no ETA on when it'll be up. Very unfortunate for those of us waiting to release apps before August.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by atgm »

I just went to check on the dev center and got this e-mail:

Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website. Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses may have been accessed. In the spirit of transparency, we want to inform you of the issue. We took the site down immediately on Thursday and have been working around the clock since then.

In order to prevent a security threat like this from happening again, we’re completely overhauling our developer systems, updating our server software, and rebuilding our entire database. We apologize for the significant inconvenience that our downtime has caused you and we expect to have the developer website up again soon.

Re: Apple Developer Center still down

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Post by pavanky »

briandear wrote: post #141
pavanky wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is not totally true. The reason most people stay with Windows is because the hardware ships with it. In my experience Linux usage has about 50% retention rate among those I installed the OS for. If you'd install OSX or Windows on a non techie who grew up using just Linux, I'd think the retention rates would be much lower.

a 50% retention rate? That's not very good. That means that after you've installed Linux, half of the people switch back.

Remember these are people who have been using windows all their lives. Change is not something all people can deal with easily.

It also says, given the chance to be the default desktop, Linux can have higher than 1% market share.

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