iCloud, iTunes again hit with global outages impacting important services [u]
A Tuesday iCloud outage is preventing some people from accessing services like calendars or mail, or even logging into iCloud in the first place, according to numerous complaints on Twitter and received by AppleInsider.

The problem is spread worldwide, affecting people in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and possibly other regions. Issues are believed to have begun shortly before 11:30 a.m. Eastern time.
Some users are already reporting services being restored, but in other cases, complaints are persisting.
Trouble with iTunes began around the same time. Apple's official System Status tracker is indicating problems with numerous other online services, such as Find My iPhone, Game Center, Photos, and Back to My Mac.
iCloud has witnessed a number of major outages since the network launched in 2011. The last one hit on May 20, and lasted into the following day, taking down many of the same services that went offline on Tuesday.
Update: The System Status page indicates that all services are back online as of noon Eastern.

The problem is spread worldwide, affecting people in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and possibly other regions. Issues are believed to have begun shortly before 11:30 a.m. Eastern time.
Some users are already reporting services being restored, but in other cases, complaints are persisting.
Trouble with iTunes began around the same time. Apple's official System Status tracker is indicating problems with numerous other online services, such as Find My iPhone, Game Center, Photos, and Back to My Mac.
iCloud has witnessed a number of major outages since the network launched in 2011. The last one hit on May 20, and lasted into the following day, taking down many of the same services that went offline on Tuesday.
Update: The System Status page indicates that all services are back online as of noon Eastern.
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Got hit by the outage this morning, but services appear to be coming back online, and status page now showing restoration of ?PAY, Siri, and more:
You should see the whining by trolls over this outage at 9to5Mac, they seem to have quickly forgotten all the MASSIVE, EXTENDED outages of Microsoft Azure / Office 365 recently, that shines iCloud's uptime in a much better light!
A quick search (Google) shows that the Apple iCloud outages happen at least once a month.
Not sure how serious they have been or how they compare to other services.
Cherchez la Samsung.
Not sure how serious they have been or how they compare to other services.
They need to tell you how many users were affected. Microsoft gives a percent (<0.1% or 1%), for example, for their enterprise services. Google and Microsoft's scale-out services are designed for more frequent, contained failures, affecting a small number of users. Apple seems to be doing things the old way, with large failures.
Could it be because Microsoft and Google each have more than three times the server installed base that Apple has?
Oh shut up. You had your chance to comprehend.
- Regular cloud outages;
- Apple's worst launch ever with the MacBook (looking for one in the shops? keep looking), even worse than the PowerBook fiasco back in the 90s.
That is what happens when you put a former COO with social activism priorities in charge.
Was having login issues. Couldn't even use the codes Apple sent to my trusted device. And because I tried to many times, I'm locked out for the next 8 hours. Which is fine.... I can access my mail via my iPhone, just not my work computer.
- Regular cloud outages;
- Apple's worst launch ever with the MacBook (looking for one in the shops? keep looking), even worse than the PowerBook fiasco back in the 90s.
That is what happens when you put a former COO with social activism priorities in charge.
You still here? You'd be much happier elsewhere.
Keep beating the old drum... Someone might listen to you eventually.
And a stopped clock is still right twice a day...
- Regular cloud outages;
- Apple's worst launch ever with the MacBook (looking for one in the shops? keep looking), even worse than the PowerBook fiasco back in the 90s.
That is what happens when you put a former COO with social activism priorities in charge.
OMG, who let your sorry trolling ass back in here? STFU and go back to playing with mechanical time pieces from the 20th century!
And this is a comment from a lawyer, right? Har.
He's no lawyer, just a freaking troll that's already been banned once before, and judging by the fresh round of bovine excrement he just spewed, won't be much longer for another ban.
It's sad that when you decide you randomly stick on something, you spam every fucking thread with it. Otherwise, you're a decent poster so I don't know why you engage in this garbage. Tell me, why the sudden outcry about iCloud prices NOW? Why the sudden need to troll about this incessantly? Apple has made you many tens of thousands, yet you pretend to the outraged at the prospect of paying $1/m. It's pathetic.
Apple really needs to up its game when it comes to services. Make their services best in class and use them as loss leaders to sell more hardware. Personally I think Cook should poach a top notch cloud executive from Microsoft, Google or Amazon and give all iCloud/Siri/Maps stuff to this new executive. Let Eddy Cue focus iTunes, Apple Music, ?TV, AppStore and ?Pay.
Also I think Apple really needs to step it up when it comes to their own apps and services. Right now I could probably fill up an entire home screen on my iPhone with Google apps. Same with Microsoft, who just spent around $100M on another iOS app - Wunderlust. Google's photos app is getting really good reviews. but it's almost like as long as you buy an iPhone Apple doesn't care what services you use. No I want them to care. I want them to be pissed off that so many people use GMail, Google Maps, Google Photos etc. and make their software products that much better.
I find it quite amusing for sog to complain about that but have no problem defending Apple over its device storage pricing.
I've only posted my iCloud concerns on 3 topics that are related to iCloud.
FYI, I just bought my parents an iPadAir2 each. They are on a fixed income and can't afford the $1 a month. Now I have to spend hours finding other means to backup their photo collection and sync their iPhones and iPads and explain to them whats going on. Its a total pain in the ass. And I sure there are many others out their who have the same problems with iCloud.
Again you keep saying we should shut the hell up about 99 cents. So you are telling hardworking middle class people to shut the hell up and pay the 99 cents instead of Apple who has almost $200,000,000,000 in cash. GTFO.
I have over a gig of photos and videos, and my iPhone 6 and iPad Air backing up to iCloud, as well as my iCloud Mail. Still have 1.4GB free.
And that must be some amazingly budgeted fixed income if $1 is too much...
Look I don't disagree with you on cloud pricing at all. But we all know the reason Apple went 16 > 64 is because the margins at the higher end are huge there too. An easy way for them to increase ASPs. And once Apple gets you locked in at 64 they figure you're never going back down.
I've seen rumors in my Twitter feed that Apple will announce free photo cloud storage at WWDC. They need to do it. Let iCloud be a loss leader to sell more hardware and keep people in Apple's ecosystem. Don't give people any incentive to use rival services.