“According to our own tests and many reports on Twitter, Gmail and other Google services, such as Google Play, Google Drive, Google Calendar, and Chrome Sync, appear to be down for many users,” Romain Dillet reports for TechCrunch.
“Some users report that their Chrome browsers are crashing when they load gmail.com. What started as a Gmail outage is more important than expected,” Dillet reports. “Google Drive, Google Calendar and Google Play appear to be down for many users.”
Dillet reports, “A Google spokesperson told TechCrunch: We are currently experiencing an issue with some Google services. For everyone who is affected, we apologize for any inconvenience you may be experiencing.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Why they need to be crucified! Nailed to the cross! Severely chastised! Tech pundits should lay waste!! After all what’s good for the Apple goose is great for the Google gander.
Hear! Hear!
And the same goes for Apple when their services stop working.
That was kind of the point, Captain Clueless.
——RM
I know you moron.
No, you didn’t. Nice try at a save, though.
——RM
The number one reason Chrome crashes for me is Google services. Granted I only have Chrome on my Mac for Google Services. I don’t need Google messing up Safari.
Dear Onion, why must you be such a reliable news source?
Gaackle. All things Evil. Karma in action.
All the tech writers will be bummed it’s not Apple. They’ll try to find a way to make it Apple’s fault somehow.
Everything is working for me. Wonder how many people are affected
Alright! I admit it, it was me!
I tried pose the question to Google Search: “Has Google ever actually inventing ANYTHING?” and the whole freakin’ thing went down!
Sorry!
I am so sick of these Google douche bags copying Apple at every turn!
Exhibit #1 on Cloud Computing:
If your data isn’t local it isn’t secure & reliable.
If you need it now and the service is down it’s effing worthless.
This desn’t really seem like a fair argument. Their datacenters probably have a higher uptime/downtime ratio than any hard drive you’ve ever owned.
Maybe but there are a lot of points where the link to your data can break in the cloud.
You are at the mercy of your provider when it happens
The problem with the cloud is the weakest link- it’s not necessarily about the data center.
About a year and a half ago a tornado took out the power lines between my house and our substation, putting us out of electricity, wired internet, cable TV, landline Telephone for almost 4 days. It also took out the power to the closest cell tower- effectively killing it as it’s backup power lasted hours- not days.
Since I have backup power, I had use of my computers and had local storage of files. If I depended upon the cloud, I would have had nothing available to me.
I’ll keep my local backups of my files and an offsite copy of critical files. None trusted to the cloud.
I keep reading Dillert as Dilbert.