Apple's iTunes Store & App Store hit by second outage in two days [u]
Visitors to the iTunes Store and iOS App Store encountered an outage on Tuesday, Apple's second such incident in as many days. [Updated]
Problems began around 12:30 p.m. Eastern time and are still ongoing as of this writing, according to the company official system status page. Affected people are unable to access the storefronts and/or prevented from downloading content, such as app updates, even though just the iTunes Store is listed as being down.
On Monday, Apple was hit with a partial outage of the two stores. The incident was limited enough that Apple didn't update its status trackers to reflect the problem. Today's downtime appears more severe, though the company has not yet said how many people have been impacted.
Likewise missing is an estimated fix time. On its status page, Apple states only that it's "investigating" and "will update the status as more information becomes available."
Apple's online services have experienced numerous outages in the past. Typically, though, these have disrupted iCloud-related services more frequently than iTunes or the App Store.
Update: Apple's status page says that the issue was resolved sometime after 3 p.m. Eastern, even though some people continued to experience difficulties.
Problems began around 12:30 p.m. Eastern time and are still ongoing as of this writing, according to the company official system status page. Affected people are unable to access the storefronts and/or prevented from downloading content, such as app updates, even though just the iTunes Store is listed as being down.
On Monday, Apple was hit with a partial outage of the two stores. The incident was limited enough that Apple didn't update its status trackers to reflect the problem. Today's downtime appears more severe, though the company has not yet said how many people have been impacted.
Likewise missing is an estimated fix time. On its status page, Apple states only that it's "investigating" and "will update the status as more information becomes available."
Apple's online services have experienced numerous outages in the past. Typically, though, these have disrupted iCloud-related services more frequently than iTunes or the App Store.
Update: Apple's status page says that the issue was resolved sometime after 3 p.m. Eastern, even though some people continued to experience difficulties.
Comments
As of 3:00PM CDT I get the following message when launching iTunes...
The shared library “Cloud Music Library” is not responding. (503)
Check that any firewall software running on either the shared computer or this computer has been set to allow communication on port 443.
So yes, it’s down here in the Midwest.
What brand of hardware and what operating system are those servers running?
What brand of hardware and what operating system are those servers running?
Who operates and manages them and wrote the software running on them?
I had wondered why I kept getting "Cannot connect..." messages popping up on my screen throughout the day. Each time a developer had posted an app update the store sent me that message. They all eventually updated at around 21.30hrs.
Hmm... Could it be that around 300,000,000 Apple customers iTunes Store payment details are now compromised?
Time to change our passwords?
Who operates and manages them and wrote the software running on them?
Isn't it all handled by the industrially robust Mac Mini with OS X Server?
Who operates and manages them and wrote the software running on them?
Isn't it all handled by the industrially robust Mac Mini with OS X Server?
I thought they were running Lisa's with 1 Meg RAM and a pair of 5 Meg hard drives connected via Appletalk and sealed in a room full of liquid nitrogen -- and of course they are all connected with ARA with a cluster of SE30's running A/UX to connect to the Internet via TCP/IP. ¡
I still cant get in from any device
same here in connecticut in the us