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Re: Apple says that some users may be experiencing iMessage and Facetime issues

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Post by tsunamifury » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 11:38 PM UTC

lm2s wrote: post #10

sigzero wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Monthly basis? I use it every day and I don't see it go down on a "monthly basis".

I pretty much need to "try again" when sending any message, sometimes it sends without any issues, but most of the times just shows me the exclamation red icon, and I need to try again.. And then sometimes it goes, others it fails again.. And this can go on for 2 or 3 more tries. It actually worked better when it was launched than now.

This is a function of of data connectivity issues, not iMessage downtime.

Re: Apple says that some users may be experiencing iMessage and Facetime issues

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Post by adestefan » Tue, Apr 09, 2013, 11:56 PM UTC

sigzero wrote: post #7

jpxxx wrote: post #2

It's rather frustrating when the core functionality for a quarter billion phones stops working on a monthly basis. But at least I can now understand the hot tears generated when BBM would go down; over-the-top messaging with delivery/read/syndication truly is superior to SMS.

Monthly basis? I use it every day and I don't see it go down on a "monthly basis".

I've sent messages every day since iMessage was released and I've never once seen any downtime.

Re: Apple says that some users may be experiencing iMessage and Facetime issues

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Post by mikeash » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 12:19 AM UTC

kunai wrote: post #3

I never really used iMessage. It never made any sense when I had been using AIM since 2002; why not continue? I like the ability to contact phone numbers rather than user IDs, but apart from that, one AIM account on all devices seems to be a better proposition, at least in my experience. And for the record, yes, I still use AIM.

iMessage is great for communicating with less-technical people who I'm never going to convince to use something like AIM. And once I'm using it for them, might as well use it for everybody, at least within the Apple universe.

Re: Apple says that some users may be experiencing iMessage and Facetime issues

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Post by saurik » Wed, Apr 10, 2013, 1:34 AM UTC

ChuckMcM wrote: post #4

Apparently the hot patch of adding in surveillance features didn't go as smoothly as hoped :-) I jest of course given the press recently about how good iMessage is at preventing eavesdropping. Keeping services like this alive is pain. Just the other night I got to experience being "down" when as far as my routers were concerned I was "up", some maintenance snafu upstream had my traffic stuck in a routing loop. But no…

Alternatively, one can imagine a DoS against iMessage (potentially something as subtle as getting a routing table screwed up for some target ISP) with the goal of causing a critical conversation you wish to intercept to be relegated to SMS.