Multiple iCloud Services Experiencing Issues (macrumors.com)

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Multiple iCloud Services Experiencing Issues (macrumors.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @08:53AM 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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Routine checks for optocouplers do that. by itomato · 2018-10-23 08:37 · Score: 1

Proactive shift to the backup Xserves?
Do iCare? by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 08:38 · Score: 3, Funny

No.
1. Re: Do iCare? by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 12:31 · Score: 0
  
  iTsbroke
This by servo335 · 2018-10-23 08:45 · Score: 1

This is why i am not a fan of the "cloud" I prefer to have my data on my device where ic an access it even without internet!
1. Re:This by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 10:15 · Score: 0
  
  Take it further. Why not grow your own food, raise farm animals or hunt, make your own clothes, build your own house.
  I mean why rely on anyone right?
2. Re: This by Cmdln+Daco · 2018-10-23 12:16 · Score: 1
  
  It's very convenient to just store your content and data on your own hardware. Your weird rant about hunting for food, etc. makes you sound deranged. Are you just another crapflooder?
iGiveaShit by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2018-10-23 09:00 · Score: 2, Funny

Really, I don't, because Android rules and iPhone drools.
1. Re:iGiveaShit by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 09:35 · Score: 0
  
  Pretty busy at work today, monkeyboy?
2. Re:iGiveaShit by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 10:27 · Score: 0
  
  I use lunch meat to jerk off.
Cloud by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 09:04 · Score: 0

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.
1. Re:Cloud by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 09:09 · Score: 0
  
  you ran a phone os on your workstation wow you fucking genius. Go away troll.
2. Re:Cloud by TheFakeTimCook · 2018-10-23 09:53 · 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...
3. Re:Cloud by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 10:31 · Score: 0
  
  I shine my balls twice a day.
4. Re:Cloud by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 11:12 · Score: 0
  
  Linux also allowed itself to fall prey to that horrible CoC, which some think is no big deal, but it actually is, because people seem to fear the SJW crowd. People fear being labeled a bigot and I don't know why. Stand up for what you believe and never let anyone tell you otherwise. Don't ever allow anyone to game you for your beliefs or label you for what you stand up for.
  OpenBSD has the perfect mantra and CoC: "Shut up and hack!"
5. Re: Cloud by Cmdln+Daco · 2018-10-23 12:21 · Score: 1
  
  Becoming a 'certified UNIX' basically means paying a fee to The Open Group who own the Unix trademark.
  I own a Unix license plate that I bought on the Open Group website about 15 years ago. It' so an authentic
  Unix license, from the company that owns the trademark.
6. Re:Cloud by thegarbz · 2018-10-23 21:08 · Score: 1
  
  Funny that every single version of OS X/macOS since 10.5 (Leopard) has been a Certified Unix (something NO Linux will EVER be).
  It is funny that OSX / MacOS seems to be the only OS that wants to be certified as another one. This is quite a strange thing to be proud of as a mac fanboi.
7. Re: Cloud by TheFakeTimCook · 2018-10-24 04:12 · Score: 0
  
  Becoming a 'certified UNIX' basically means paying a fee to The Open Group who own the Unix trademark.
  I own a Unix license plate that I bought on the Open Group website about 15 years ago. It' so an authentic
  Unix license, from the company that owns the trademark.
  Nice try.
  If all it takes is a "Campaign Contribution", then why oh why hasn't ANY Linux, even the "serious" ones like RHEL, gone that route to have themselves declared "A Certified Unix"?
  You make NO sense. Liar.
8. Re:Cloud by TheFakeTimCook · 2018-10-24 04:15 · Score: 0
  
  Funny that every single version of OS X/macOS since 10.5 (Leopard) has been a Certified Unix (something NO Linux will EVER be).
  It is funny that OSX / MacOS seems to be the only OS that wants to be certified as another one. This is quite a strange thing to be proud of as a mac fanboi.
  Who says they are the only ones that WANT to be Certified?
  https://www.opengroup.org/open...
  Why LIE about something that is so easily proven?
  I know. You're "Certifiable" yourself. Only it's a different kind of "Certification"...
9. Re: Cloud by Cmdln+Daco · 2018-10-24 11:43 · Score: 1
  
  You're really disappointing. I thought you would come back with something about POSIX compliance, testing, etc.
  You pay for the license, for the piece of paper that says that your software is in compliance. It isn't worth it for Red Hat because they don't need that sort of 'bullet point' on their advertising.
"Diversity is our strength!!" by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 09:14 · Score: -1

Albany, NY is 52% white. In that city every single homicide in 2017 had a non-white perpetrator and victim. Of course the article blames it on poverty as though there were no poor whites living there.
Such vibrant diversity! This story was relatively honest. For most of the rest, remember the new media code-word for "black males" is "teens" or "youths". Just like the many times a legal gun owner with a conceal carry permit stops a crime but it never gets reported that way, directly reporting the real criminality of blacks just doesn't fit the narrative.
1. Re:"Diversity is our strength!!" by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 09:28 · Score: -1
  
  Killing nazis is a strength and an American tradition. We're going to hang each and every one of you ugly inbred faggot nazi children from your bitch traitor necks. That's after you get the Trump Junior treatment in Federal prison, of course.
2. Re: "Diversity is our strength!!" by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 09:45 · Score: -1
  
  No you won't. Cops will keep throwing you monkeys in cages and getting you thugs off our streets, execution style; and you know it. How does it feel to know you are inferior?
  History teaches that you are. You couldn't enslave a civilization to save your life.
3. Re: "Diversity is our strength!!" by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 10:56 · Score: 0
  
  Nazis are the enemy of WHITE America. We're going to hang each and every one of you treasonous inbred nazi faggot children just like Grandpa did in Europe. You are traitors. Traitors hang. Welcome to America, nazi scum.
  You will not survive here.
  You will understand the scope of your mistake soon, lol, as Trump Junior realizes what it feels like to be raped to pieces in Federal prison. You deserve it. Everything you have done has brought you here, to this point.
  And now you're going to get fucked by it until you die, nazi scum. Real Americans don't goosestep, cowardly faggots. Jesus would skull fuck you apostates and I'll piss on Trump's grave with your whore mother, my new bitch.
  And there's nothing you deplorable nothing traitor faggots can do about it.
4. Re:"Diversity is our strength!!" by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 14:34 · Score: 0
  
  Killing nazis is a strength and an American tradition. We're going to hang each and every one of you ugly inbred faggot nazi children from your bitch traitor necks. That's after you get the Trump Junior treatment in Federal prison, of course.
  If you self-proclaimed "nazi killers" can't produce a logical response to such a basic and easy to understand article then there's no reason to fear you. Let me know when you learn how to reason, that might actually make you dangerous.
5. Re:"Diversity is our strength!!" by Plumpaquatsch · 2018-10-25 07:03 · Score: 1
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
  
  --
  Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
there 2013 mac pros are over loading! by Joe_Dragon · 2018-10-23 09:21 · Score: 1

there 2013 mac pros are over loading!
1. Re:there 2013 mac pros are over loading! by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 09:28 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  their
2. Re: there 2013 mac pros are over loading! by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 09:52 · Score: -1
  
  Youâ(TM)re mom is on my dick!
Bloomberg Is Right by Fluffymuffin+Cocobut · 2018-10-23 09:27 · Score: 1

T'was the Chinese motherboard spyware chips. Codename: Salmon Mousse

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Get used to it by Anonymous Coward · 2018-10-23 09:38 · Score: 0

Cloud stuff all experiences problems eventually. Nothing you can really do but learn to deal with it. Maybe have a backup plan, or just find the nearest bar and wait it out. Your depending so much on other having their poop in a group and sometimes that just doesn't happen.
Self inflicted? by samson13 · 2018-10-23 19:41 · Score: 2

Apple pushed an OSX update a few weeks back that caused the iCloud sync on both my wife's and mother in law's computers to hammer the Internet connection. Was averaging about 30Mb/s whenever she had her laptop on.

We turned off sync for photos and it stopped. It wouldn't take to many OSX users behaving like this to clobber any assumptions about usage.