Trust me, you'll survive. You can wait a few minutes/hours to update apps. Your life will not be negatively affected in any way.
This kind of attitude is why Apple's services are midrate at best.
No. Apple isn't lax because users are patient. Two different things. Systems experience problems. I see two major problems — (1) Apple's status messages are slow to appear and vague, and (2) Users demand 100% perfection from very complex systems.
Slurpy is correct. We will survive. As soon as the systems are fully operational again, it will be life as usual and we will have forgotten all about this. #fact
Cue needs to spend less time screaming and pointing at Steph Curry and get to work and fixing the myriad of problems the things he's supposed to be in charge of are working properly.
He's got less than 3 hours until game time ... Talk about pressure
Yep. I've only been saying this since forever. Obviously outages can happen but they seem to happen more frequently with Apple these days.
And Forstall was sent packing over Apple Maps, whereas Eddy has problems with all the services, many times a year. Starting to look like a favoritism thing at this point.
I think it's pretty clear Scott Forstall was the odd man out on the executive team. There were rumors that even Phil Schiller didn't get along with him. And that he'd bad mouth other Apple teams in front of his own team. Probably kept himself in check when Steve was still around. My guess is Eddy Cue is well liked by Cook and inside the company and hence his job is safe.
Yep. I've only been saying this since forever. Obviously outages can happen but they seem to happen more frequently with Apple these days.
And Forstall was sent packing over Apple Maps, whereas Eddy has problems with all the services, many times a year. Starting to look like a favoritism thing at this point.
I think it's pretty clear Scott Forstall was the odd man out on the executive team. There were rumors that even Phil Schiller didn't get along with him. And that he'd bad mouth other Apple teams in front of his own team. Probably kept himself in check when Steve was still around. My guess is Eddy Cue is well liked by Cook and inside the company and hence his job is safe.
Tim doesn't impress me as someone who would let personal relationships influence performance and the job to be done.
To be honest, Eddy has a lot on his plate (maybe too much) trying to bring iTools, and the like, into the 21st century.
In hindsight, they may have been better just re-implementing everything from scratch. Then, provide migration tools with a date certain cutover to the new systems -- discontinuing the legacy systems.
Tim Cook needs to consider replacing Eddy Cue. Here is Cue's bio from the Apple webpage:
"Eddy oversees Apple's industry-leading content stores including the iTunes Store and Apple Music, as well as Apple Pay, Siri, Maps, iAd, Apple's innovative iCloud services, and Apple’s productivity and creativity apps."
Isn't that basically a list of the products Apple has had the most problems with?
Forestall was fired because Cook didn't want some who was a Threat for taking his job around. At this point is obvious that Cue is kept because he's not a threat.
Tim Cook needs to consider replacing Eddy Cue. Here is Cue's bio from the Apple webpage:
"Eddy oversees Apple's industry-leading content stores including the iTunes Store and Apple Music, as well as Apple Pay, Siri, Maps, iAd, Apple's innovative iCloud services, and Apple’s productivity and creativity apps."
Isn't that basically a list of the products Apple has had the most problems with?
Forestall was fired because Cook didn't want some who was a Threat for taking his job around. At this point is obvious that Cue is kept because he's not a threat.
Really? Do you have a citation? Do you think that Scott would be a better CEO than Tim?
I have no way of knowing the truth, but the chatter at the time was that Scott didn't get along with other executives and refused to take responsibility for the failure of the maps app.
Tim Cook needs to consider replacing Eddy Cue. Here is Cue's bio from the Apple webpage:
"Eddy oversees Apple's industry-leading content stores including the iTunes Store and Apple Music, as well as Apple Pay, Siri, Maps, iAd, Apple's innovative iCloud services, and Apple’s productivity and creativity apps."
Isn't that basically a list of the products Apple has had the most problems with?
Forestall was fired because Cook didn't want some who was a Threat for taking his job around. At this point is obvious that Cue is kept because he's not a threat.
What evidence is there that Forstall was a threat to be CEO? I don't doubt he may have thought he was worthy but there is zero evidence he was ever under consideration.
Yep. I've only been saying this since forever. Obviously outages can happen but they seem to happen more frequently with Apple these days.
And Forstall was sent packing over Apple Maps, whereas Eddy has problems with all the services, many times a year. Starting to look like a favoritism thing at this point.
Forstall was seen as "grating" inside Apple, though sometimes companies need that to give them a kick up the ass. He was seen as a "mini Steve", he was an excellent lead software engineer though.
To be honest, Eddy has a lot on his plate (maybe too much) trying to bring iTools, and the like, into the 21st century.
In hindsight, they may have been better just re-implementing everything from scratch. Then, provide migration tools with a date certain cutover to the new systems -- discontinuing the legacy systems.
There's absolutely nothing left of iTools in iCloud, apart from the email addresses. MobileMe yes, but everything is new since the introduction of MM. There is a lot of integration which does typically mean one thing going down breaks others too, but Apple seems to have little redundancy for these outages.
I noticed a few hours ago that iTunes had the "Couldn't connect to iCloud" dialog appear numerous times.
Hacked? What do you think? They'd never admit to that but I hear Google was hacked earlier this year - it was very hush hush, of course. Just speculation about Apple.
Hacked? What do you think? They'd never admit to that but I hear Google was hacked earlier this year - it was very hush hush, of course. Just speculation about Apple.
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No. Apple isn't lax because users are patient. Two different things. Systems experience problems. I see two major problems — (1) Apple's status messages are slow to appear and vague, and (2) Users demand 100% perfection from very complex systems.
Slurpy is correct. We will survive. As soon as the systems are fully operational again, it will be life as usual and we will have forgotten all about this. #fact
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Tim doesn't impress me as someone who would let personal relationships influence performance and the job to be done.
To be honest, Eddy has a lot on his plate (maybe too much) trying to bring iTools, and the like, into the 21st century.
In hindsight, they may have been better just re-implementing everything from scratch. Then, provide migration tools with a date certain cutover to the new systems -- discontinuing the legacy systems.
Boom!
Really? Do you have a citation? Do you think that Scott would be a better CEO than Tim?
I have no way of knowing the truth, but the chatter at the time was that Scott didn't get along with other executives and refused to take responsibility for the failure of the maps app.
You'd be right, even though WO isn't sold or supported anymore. The iTMS seems to be the most reliable of any Apple services though.
There's absolutely nothing left of iTools in iCloud, apart from the email addresses. MobileMe yes, but everything is new since the introduction of MM. There is a lot of integration which does typically mean one thing going down breaks others too, but Apple seems to have little redundancy for these outages. I noticed a few hours ago that iTunes had the "Couldn't connect to iCloud" dialog appear numerous times.
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