I worked in an AT&T central office for over twenty years. Human beings make mistakes. Even with a ten step safety process for performing updates (Do I know why this work is being done? Do I have the knowledge? Do I have the tools? Have I notified other departments? And so forth...) things go wrong. With the high capacity transmission systems in use today pulling the wrong fiber connection can take down an entire region. Even redundant systems can be taken down by pushing the wrong button on a control panel or pulling out the wrong circuit pack.
And yes, in those twenty years I caused my share of outages. One was even FCC reportable and I had a letter in my personnel file for a couple of years.
It used to be that even a single phone line out for over 24 hours was FCC reportable.
It used to be that even a single phone line out for over 24 hours was FCC reportable.
In my case it was 11 T3s connecting to the long distance network. I got turned around inside an electronic cross-connect machine and Poof! And I realized the error exactly one second AFTER I hit the enter key. Beads of sweat would be an understatement. Point being shit happens. Apple technicians are just as fallible as any.
I suspect it's due to some backend update. Can't wait for sept 9
I wondered about that. Although I would have thought Apple would have announced / warned that they were 'upgrading' and services would be down for a while if that were the case. Perhaps we will learn more soon.
Honestly I think all this will garner attention that will be turned positive come next week, I mean even with that celebrity leak pointing to AAPL this didn't shake investors. I can't wait
Apple is being hacked by its enemies whose goal is to undermine and discredit the company prior to the iPhone 6's launch. Either that or Apple is just very unlucky this week.
I suggested this as an explanation for the appearance at this time of the hacked celeb pics story...
Got about zero traction.
But I'm more in tune with GTR and Flaneur than with Suddenly Newton -
I don't insist that solid proof is required in order to have valid suspicions, soooo...
let's combine the two and put this outage down to Misguided Revenge of the Hacked Starlets!!!!!
Apple is being hacked by its enemies whose goal is to undermine and discredit the company prior to the iPhone 6's launch. Either that or Apple is just very unlucky this week.
No one has proven that Apple's statement they were not hacked is false (versus folks using crappy passwords which means they were hacked, not Apple) or that this LE software was part of the game. I mean for all we know only a handful of victims were off iCloud and they were actually all from finding the id and password on a sticky note an assistant stupidly tossed in the bin or similar stupid.
And the hackers that claimed it was from iCloud would do so cause Apple gets press. Which they want. Hackers do it as much for the attention as the gathered items. And picking this week would be tied to the announcement because the press is going super guns on Apple things
If someone was really trying to discredit Apple they would be posting exactly how they did it to show how crappy Apple's systems are.
Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is an enemy action.
There is no proof that this is a twice. For all we know the issue is that Apple is forced to use a TWC connection to the trunk lines and just like so many of us residential customers, that connection took a crap. Remember last week when TWC had that big outage. There are likely after effects and Apple could have been a victim of one of them
I'm now wondering if the fix will improve the very slow App Store on my iPhone4 iOS7.
My App Store has been gradually slowing for several months, now is too painful to use. :???:
Ask your doctor to prescribe something for the pain.
I thought it was just me experiencing this hiccup after I'd tried for about 30 minutes last night to download a couple of movie purchases. I checked the system status page and it showed everything in the green. A few minutes later it started working again. Annoying, but I guess it's inevitable that outages will occur. Glad it's fixed!
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Like Clint Eastwood said in Unforgiven, "deserve got nothing to do with it"
It used to be that even a single phone line out for over 24 hours was FCC reportable.
It used to be that even a single phone line out for over 24 hours was FCC reportable.
In my case it was 11 T3s connecting to the long distance network. I got turned around inside an electronic cross-connect machine and Poof! And I realized the error exactly one second AFTER I hit the enter key. Beads of sweat would be an understatement. Point being shit happens. Apple technicians are just as fallible as any.
I wondered about that. Although I would have thought Apple would have announced / warned that they were 'upgrading' and services would be down for a while if that were the case. Perhaps we will learn more soon.
Honestly I think all this will garner attention that will be turned positive come next week, I mean even with that celebrity leak pointing to AAPL this didn't shake investors. I can't wait
Meh. AAPL down 2.5% this morning.Apple is being hacked by its enemies whose goal is to undermine and discredit the company prior to the iPhone 6's launch. Either that or Apple is just very unlucky this week.
I suggested this as an explanation for the appearance at this time of the hacked celeb pics story...
Got about zero traction.
But I'm more in tune with GTR and Flaneur than with Suddenly Newton -
I don't insist that solid proof is required in order to have valid suspicions, soooo...
let's combine the two and put this outage down to Misguided Revenge of the Hacked Starlets!!!!!
I am surprise this is news.
its Apple, of course it's news. Apple gets page hits after all
Apple is being hacked by its enemies whose goal is to undermine and discredit the company prior to the iPhone 6's launch. Either that or Apple is just very unlucky this week.
No one has proven that Apple's statement they were not hacked is false (versus folks using crappy passwords which means they were hacked, not Apple) or that this LE software was part of the game. I mean for all we know only a handful of victims were off iCloud and they were actually all from finding the id and password on a sticky note an assistant stupidly tossed in the bin or similar stupid.
And the hackers that claimed it was from iCloud would do so cause Apple gets press. Which they want. Hackers do it as much for the attention as the gathered items. And picking this week would be tied to the announcement because the press is going super guns on Apple things
If someone was really trying to discredit Apple they would be posting exactly how they did it to show how crappy Apple's systems are.
Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is an enemy action.
There is no proof that this is a twice. For all we know the issue is that Apple is forced to use a TWC connection to the trunk lines and just like so many of us residential customers, that connection took a crap. Remember last week when TWC had that big outage. There are likely after effects and Apple could have been a victim of one of them
Ask your doctor to prescribe something for the pain.
Hilarious... AAPL is down 4% while BBRY is up 3%.
Idiocy or buying opportunity, depending upon your stance.