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Apple Offers No Explanation for 7-Hour Outage (nbcnews.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the missing-Mac-music dept.

Apple services went offline for up to 7 hours Thursday -- and the company has yet to offer an explanation. An anonymous reader writes: The outage affected the App Store, iTunes in the Cloud, Apple TV, Mail Drop, Find my iPhone, and Photos. During the outage, Apple responded to complaints on Twitter, "Thank you for the information. We're aware of this issue and are investigating," Tech Times reports that the iCloud Music Library had also experienced an outage on Wednesday, and that just weeks ago Apple released an operating system update which bricked several iPad Pros. And yesterday Amazon also experienced a service outage.

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  1. A dev is claiming responsibility by drunkenoafoffofb3ta · · Score: 5, Interesting

    (He uploaded a series of >2Gb app updates at the same time). https://m.facebook.com/story.p...

  2. Re:Apple, the only certification-lacking cloud... by ledow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was once asked to gather EU data protection guarantees from various cloud companies. Basically, a new law came in that meant that we couldn't just take their word that they only stored and processed our data on EU datacentres, but an actual written guarantee. ISO 27001 was apart of that.

    At the time, Apple were the only large cloud company completely unable / unwilling to supply one. I don't know if that's changed because, well... since then we've only ever supplied fake personal information and/or disabled iCloud on products that we use, and the decision was made that Google Apps would be the cloud services of choice because they complied and were free (for schools).

    Hilarious that people point fingers at Google for privacy and data processing, and yet Apple was the one to fail hardest on this, for a period of many months, forcing our hand.