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Apple’s iCloud portfolio of various streaming and syncing services has existed for two years. And in those two years, Apple still hasn’t been able to keep it from regularly fucking up. It happened again today!
9to5Mac noticed the outage, which began at around 9am this morning and just ended about an hour ago — and hit iCloud in its entirety. That’s a big outage, which Apple says affected 11 per cent of iCloud’s users: over 25 million people. That’s 25 million people whose email, backup, and music wasn’t working. The mainframe cerebrovascular accident has been upgraded as of now, with only three services on alert: Photo Stream, Documents in The Cloud, and “Backup.” That last one is a biggie.
This isn’t a crisis by any means, but it shows that Apple, after all these years, is still pretty terrible and keeping its software from face-planting. [iCloud Status via 9to5Mac]
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I wonder what would be the tone of this article if this happened to all of Google’s cloud services.
In fairness if this was to happen to Google it would be likely to have a much greater impact. Many small businesses and universities use Gmails services. A gmail blackout alone in my university makes 30,000 people all of a sudden out of contact from one and other.
that was a fun day I tell ya.
“I felt a great disturbance in the Google, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.”
“Google’s services suffer minor blip, Apple suspected in sabotage attempt.”
Did this actually effect you?
The system status isn’t reliable anyway, it’s suggesting that Maps hasn’t got an issue.
zing!
that might explain why exactly 1,000 freaking old photos just turned up in my photo stream !!