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jonas21last Wednesday at 9:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

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...


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rtkwelast Wednesday at 9:33 PM

Do they offer many services for *OS apps or are they mostly independent and only service their own first party apps?

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amw-zerolast Wednesday at 10:57 PM

Half of the world uses Apple products, how is that not the maximum possible impact?

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