“A number of AppleInsider readers reported on Sunday that they could not send or receive iMessages from their iPhones and iPads, a problem that is becoming more common since the company’s newest iOS 6 was released in September,” AppleInsider reports.
“According to Apple’s iCloud system status webpage, ‘some’ users unable to use iMessage or place FaceTime calls, with the error coming less than two days after an issue appeared with iCloud storage upgrade payment transactions,” AppleInsider reports. “All services have been restored as of 4:41 PST [Sunday, November 18, 2012].”
AppleInsider reports, “Sunday’s downtime marks the fourth such outage in the past three months, with one incident in September and two in October affecting users of iMessage on both iOS and OS X clients. At the time, messages sent through Apple’s proprietary service were pushed through as SMS texts.
Read more in the full article here.”
MacDailyNews Note: Apple’s Apple’s iCloud system status webpage is here.
Simple solution…don’t buy Apple!
Good idea… since every single other choice is absolutely perfect!
Better solution. Get lost.
Blackberry, then?
Well what about android and windows built in private messaging system? Have they had to revert to using regular text messaging now and then?
Let’s not forget RIM’s catastrophic outages last fall…
Apple, following RIM to irrelevance. Let’s have more BBM & iMessage outages. Can’t have enough of them.
Funny.. Way over this side of the world ie Malaysia, where we still waiting for the iphone 5.. We didnt experience any outrage as per report!!!!
Well, I really wouldn’t expect any outrage unless there was an outage. 🙂
Uh… Used imessage in Canada with no issues – when was this again & what area or country?
Story says iMessages were pushed through as SMS texts, but in my area even SMS texts were failing, so the entire Shitaree was FUBAR.
It’s Bush’s fault.
Funny how Amazon and Google generally lack this problem Apple constantly has.
Funny how you don’t know the meaning of the word “constantly.” Here’s a hint: It does not mean the same as “rarely” or even “occasionally.”
And while you’re looking up the definition of “constantly,” why not bing, yahoo, or duckduckgo the phrases “google outage” and “amazon outage”. You’ll be amazed at what you discover!
Unacceptable. This is what everyone expects from small players like RIM. There’s no excuse when Apple has hundreds of billions … yes …. *BILLIONS* …. in reserve cash. Apple doesn’t care if the products and software they offer are fatally flawed or worse, unreliable, just as long as they’re sucking maximum profits out by leveraging vapourous promises. I’d blame it on Mr Cook, but Steve Jobs never cared enough to get iTools, .Mac, or MobileMe working reliably either. Laughably, iCloud is continuing that legacy despite having dropped almost all the biggest features (IE: syncing, web-hosting, galleries, iDisk [unlimited file sharing]) and still doesn’t reliably send push notifications of emails to the iphones in our network (the most basic of services). What a sad joke.
Unacceptable. This is what everyone expects from small players like RIM. There’s no excuse when Apple has hundreds of billions … yes …. *BILLIONS* …. in reserve cash. Apple doesn’t care if the products and software they offer are fatally flawed or worse, unreliable, just as long as they’re sucking maximum profits out by leveraging vapourous promises. I’d blame it on Mr Cook, but Steve Jobs never cared enough to get iTools, .Mac, or MobileMe working reliably either. Laughably, iCloud is continuing that legacy despite having dropped almost all the biggest features (IE: syncing, web-hosting, galleries, iDisk [unlimited file sharing]) and still doesn’t reliably send push notifications of emails to the iphones in our network (the most basic of services). What a sad joke.
Two words, Free Service.
Okay, that was four words, D’oh, nine. D’oh!
My god, what a horrible, unacceptable, catastrophic malfunction!!
Which I didn’t notice. Just like I didn’t notice the last one, and barely noticed the one before that. For such an utter clusterf**k of a system, it sure seems to be working well for me. I must be one lucky guy.
Either that, or this is just another thing getting blown out of proportion.
——RM
Perspective is everything isn’t it.
What I noticed during the time of the outage was that I had the first FT video call with my parents that did not have one single drop-out or “lost call”. And we talked for about 15 continuous minutes.
Ok everyone let’s be fair: Blackberry users unaffected. 😉
🙂
Must have been a USA only outage. Sent at least 30 iMessages whilst watching the f1 on Sunday. In fact whenever there has been a supposed outage I’ve never had a problem.