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Multiple iCloud Services Experiencing Issues (macrumors.com)

Posted by msmash on from the call-it dept.

Several iCloud services are experiencing problems this afternoon, users reported. While Apple PR has not issued a statement yet, the status page of Apple services reflect the issues, too. Citing people and the status page, news outlet MacRumors reports that Cloud Drive, iCloud Mail, iCloud Keychain, iCloud Contacts, iCloud Calendar, Mail Drop, Find My iPhone, and more services are performing "slower than normal" for some users.

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  1. Re:Cloud by TheFakeTimCook · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, people seem to think that the "cloud" equates to infallibility. Like the global YouTube outage last week there is nothing magical about the cloud. It's data centers and servers run by big tech companies that get billions for your personal data so they can collect more of your personal data.

    On that note: It wouldn't surprise me if the outage is software. I've been using OS X since it was called NeXTStep, or NEXTSTEP, or NeXTSTEP. Whatever. It was a good operating system. When I had a PowerPC laptop running OS X I felt like I had a fantastic portable UNIX workstation.

    Fast forward to the last time I used iOS: v12. It seemed painful, poorly designed, centered around media consumption and little else, but most of all: buggy. Very buggy. Buggy enough that I gave up on it (I'm back to a pure Linux desktop).

    Apple's software culture has been going down hill. Steve Jobs wasn't a genius at running a company but it does seem that Tim Cook (basically an "optimization" guy) has caused them to stumble time and time again. If you don't like Apple check out Louis Rossman's YouTube channel for some great Apple rants too.

    Funny that every single version of OS X/macOS since 10.5 (Leopard) has been a Certified Unix (something NO Linux will EVER be). Sounds like you are conflating macOS and iOS, too.

    Oh, and speaking of which, iOS 12 is actually the best, most-performant (even on hardware SEVEN generations old!) version EVER. And it has ALWAYS run rings-around that Spyware-on-a-stick, Android.

    So, Have fun with your toy OS with NO support nor real Development plan, and your Spyware-on-a-stick mobile "OS". Apple will still be here ready and waiting with macOS version 10.22 (Europa) and iOS 25 when you get tired of what's left of Linux after MS runs it into the ground, and after you have suffered identity theft through Android three or four more times...