alt Hacker NewsI don’t think I’ve every heard of an Apple Services outage until today.
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To be perfectly honest with you, I wanted to come here to say that their services (on a good day) aren't very reliable anyway.
I routinely have email issues, file transfer issues (to icloud) and issues accessing their binary notarisation service.
The only thing that works routinely well is Apple Pay, however I think that it's refreshing a key lazily in the background and does not actually need a network connection to work. Good design at least.
So when I saw that they're having an outage, I thought. "All at once this time I guess".
I'll be really open here and say that I applied for an SRE job there out of hatred because whoever is in charge of SRE/Infrastructure Operations at Apple is doing a terrible job (or has terrible circumstances).
Even downdetector.com has nothing about Apple Services being offline: https://downdetector.com/search/?q=apple
Same... to their credit, even during the major cloud outages I don't recall Apple services going down.
If the outages only happen to services that aren’t used much I understand why.
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application (twitter.com/lapcatsoftware)
2603 points by mattsolle on Nov 12, 2020 | 1292 comments
> I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and [it's down]
that's a fantastic point.
They have a major outage every couple of years. These don't have as much impact as some other cloud outages because they only affect Apple products, i.e. they're not hosting services for other companies.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/apple-investigates-app-store...
- https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/23/app-store-apple-music-a...
- https://www.the-sun.com/tech/4944089/apple-maps-down-icloud-...
- https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/08/itunes-and-app-stores-s...
- https://www.macrumors.com/2018/03/27/app-store-outage/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/02/apple-reporting-outages-for-...
- https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/11/some-apple-services-sufferin...