“Early last evening, the Mac App Store and iTunes App Store began having intermittent connectivity problems that we originally reported on our Mac Blog,” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors. “The issues were widely reported by our readers in many geographic areas though the problems were came and went for individuals. Reports of problems, however, have persisted all night, representing one of the longest durations of connection issues with the App Store ever.”
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Kim reports, “Late [last] evening, Apple has started emailing developers to let them know that their developer portal iTunes Connect will be undergoing maintenance throughout the day on Wednesday.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
The development site wouldn’t have anything to do with Production.
Data center coming online??
Nope. Becoming self-aware.
Self-aware. I like that. Maybe one of the new innovative devices from the Apple lab has reached out and touched someone or is speed dating on the internet!
I wish that Apple logos were on those hosting PC’s in NC at the new billion dollar server farm. Apple servers are manufactured to higher standards even if the OS running in those PCs is OS X. That may come back and bite Apple.
Steve Jobs rebooting his MBP?
This is obviously in preparation for the coming launch of Lion !!!
Go APPLE go !!!
You might be correct!
Thinking about releasing Lion via the App Store, it’s going to be a huge undertaking. There must be preparations!
Just sounds like problems. Everybody has em. Yes even AAPL, fan boys. The stock is up. They’ll fix their problems. Its all good.
In case you didn’t know it, “fanboys” is an extremely derogatory term that you’d best remove from your online vocabulary if you want to avoid getting busted in the chops, as it were. Personally, I’d like to see the comments on this site look a little less like a food fight in the hunior high cafeteria.
And you would be the guy to do that?
This makes an even greater case for why IOS devices should allow external non apple hosted app stores as vehicles for getting apps onto devices (without jailbreaking). Putting all the eggs in one basket, makes IOS devices dependent on the reliability of Apple’s services. The same is likely going to be true for icloud as well. Apple should gives IOS devices a choice of which cloud to use, and let the market decide which cloud is most worthy.
Steve : CONTROL!!! Sometimes bad most times good.
Always remember, ” An open gate is an invitation to intruders !!! “
It’s been down for maintenance for like 3 times in the last 14 days.
It’s not down at the moment for me though.
“the problems were came and went for individuals”
Not to be a language Nazi, but how about something like “the problems were intermittent”
Much ado about nothing.
“Much ado about nothing” is becoming the watchword of the internet. What a waste of a truly amazing resource!
Heres my dilemma… I’m one of the AT&T Uverse users now under a data cap… I also have FOUR computers to be upgraded to OSX Lion. Will I have to download that huge file FOUR separate times?
If so, at least two machines may leach wifi from Starbucks or McDonalds or something…
Download once, and use on other machines via burned DVD or USB flash drive.
Directions have been on every mac site.
No problems!
No sweat
http://holgr.com/blog/2011/02/creating-a-bootable-os-x-10-7-lion-disc/
How innovative and intuitive of Apple to force people to have to manually open the package and have to be technically savvy enough to know how to load the image and burn it. I’d expect this from a linux release like Ubuntu, not Apple.
Not the Wednesday I have been anticipating. I’ll sit on my hands while they get it all sorted for release.
It was me. I was hacking the planet last night. sorry for the inconvenience! 🙂
The inconveniences soon will end 😉
Experienced it first hand trying to get Netflix on a new Apple tv. After a couple hours finally got “it’s a problem with our servers.” by the way, anyone else find the support voice line REALLY bad? Hard enough for outsourced support to understand you without a fuzzy voice connection, and it makes the “on hold” music sound like screeching. “No, my name is Ed not Greg.”