“Owners of an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Apple TV were yesterday able to update their devices to Apple’s new iOS 5 software, providing them with a number of new features and access to the company’s new cloud service iCloud,” Matt Brian reports for TNW.
“It appears that whilst Apple stuggled to cope with demand, ISPs were facing issues trying to keep traffic flowing through their networks, as Apple device owners attempted to download at least 600 megabyte updates,” Brian reports. “One ISP, AAISP, was ‘caught unawares’ and yesterday evening saw ‘silly high usage since around 18:40 [BST]’ leading them to think that ‘something [was] clearly ‘up’ and there [was] some ‘internet event’ happening.'”
Brian reports, “As Cult of Mac notes, that ‘internet event’ was the release of iOS 5, Mac OS X 10.7.2 and a number of new applications. Throughout the evening, AAISP engineers posted on the company’s Incident and Status Page, noting just what was happening to its network as subscribers fired up their iTunes clients and updated their iOS devices.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Someone was thinking it.
Must be a bandwith rounding error
+1
Must be a bandwith rounding error
Must be a bandwith rounding error
Maybe it was a bandwidth rounding error?
You think it could’ve been a bandwidth rounding error?
Nope. It’s more than likely just a bandwidth rounding error.
bandwidth rounding error ?
Manwich sounding fair?
What’s a bandwidth rounding error, heard something about it earlier
Steve Balmer called Apples percentage of computers sold increase a “rounding error”.
LOL…. probably made it worse for RIM with the internets being hogged up by us!
No worries, RIM won’t need it before long!
With their network centers down, RIM wasn’t using it.
It must be DOS or flooding attack! Poor that IT guy…
Not unexpected for the world’s greatest company.
It would be interesting to see what the loads were at the Apple iCloud facilities. And aren’t they glad Apple delayed the iPhone 4S to this Friday. Maybe Apple brings down the Telcos.
gee, who would think giving one hundred million people something really cool for free would cause a stampede?
Was Al Gore sitting in Apple’s HQ when the Internet broke?
This is an excellent question. I was wondering what the carbon footprint of the latest OS release was – certainly a major concern for Al Gore.
Leave it to internet “engineers” not to know what’s up with Apple.
+1
A great tribute to Steve. His army brings the Internet and providers to their knees.
Miss you, Steve.
Gives new meaning to “going out with a bang”. Steve was “The Man”! RIP, Steve.
Steve’s death brought down Twitter. iOS 5 and iCloud brought down the Internet.
That, or Skyne–I mean, Siri just went active and took over the whole of the globe.
Phew…thought maybe Paris Hilton had released another nude sex tape.
Apple broke the internet. Waaaaah! Apple might need to roll out major updates on a device basis in the future instead of dumping them all on the internet at once. I’ve heard now with iOS 5.0 minor updates will be pushed in the background which will eliminate this type of peak server demand.
One thing for sure, this sort of internet/server overload won’t happen with Android devices because they’ve got such haphazard releases and the OS is fragmented enough that at most only a tiny percentage of those devices will get updated at one time, if at all. The Droidtards will claim superiority of Android OS due to this reason.
To me, I see iOS as the most cohesive of mobile OSes where users are actively interested in getting updates over multiple generations of devices. Updating a device as old as the 3GS is could be considered pretty amazing in terms of usable smartphone life for an average consumer. That’s really extending the life of a device to say you got your money’s worth from it.
iOS 5 certainly made my 3GS snappy!!
Pffffftttttt…Microsoft is run so efficiently they’d never encounter this type of problem. Clearly a bandwidth rounding error.
On the BBC last night ‘With Rims system still down people might decide to change to better the better smartphones out there…’ Ouch
iClog da Internet!
The IT guys obviously didn’t get the 411 on Apple because they’re all using crack berry devices and they can’t send or receive any messages! Doh!
The worst thing was downloading the iOS update, it kept timing out at just over 600MB, and when I restarted it it started from the beginning, good way to eat up a big chunk of my Data Cap.
I hope now that iOS can do updates without a computer they will be smaller files. Also a lot of people I talked to had issues with restoring their settings from backup.
My update for lion, took almost two hours to download, but no issues.
iPad update to iOS 5, was at same time I downloaded 10.7.2, took 2tries to install it. I had a 3000 error of some sort and had to start over.
My apple tv, took 2-3 hours to download, no problems.
My iPhone….. 6 hours. Was the last to download.
Failed three times… Gave me option to wipe the iPhone and start fresh but would lose everything once. The 4th time it took.
Think about it though, the above was close to 3 gb of data (also had iPhoto and aperture updates and two apple tv’s)
Now multiply that by about 150million people… At the same time.
Ouch..
Must have been people ordering Zunes.
Any IT professional who was blindsided by this “internet event” should be fired. This is a perfect example of the PC centric bias of many internet service providers and IT professionals, who still look at Apple’s products as “toys”.
The ‘net is borken!
So speaks the Swedish chef! Bork bork bork!
Well, the iCloud mail service is down at the moment-10/14/11 6:52:08