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Apple Entertainment Services are slow or down
- arthurcolle 4y agoFirst time I try to use Apple Podcasts and it is down. At least this explains why I spent 10 minutes messing with the app before giving up!
- weaksauce 4y agoovercast is a pretty good alternative to apple podcasts if you are looking for something else
- Temporary_31337 4y agoTry Pocket Casts too, much better for makingsure your regular Podcasts are downloaded before things go offline. I tried switching to Apple Podcasts and I found out the hard way that it didnt download my episodes before a 10 hour flight.
- jdminhbg 4y agoApple Music is bad with this too. Even though it's what I use for streaming, I simply do not trust it to keep things locally if it decides it might have a better idea about whether I need disk space than it does. I use Castro for podcasts (inbox/queue works great for maintaining local downloads) and Doppler for music.
- cocacola1 4y agoSeconded. Phenomenal app made by a single dev.
- zimpenfish 4y agoAlthough Overcast has some infuriating UI/UX nonsense (like not remembering where you are if you swap away from the app, searches not being sorted, etc.) and some weird bugs (sometimes when you play, it'll do a couple of seconds and then stop. Might be related to a previously downloaded episode being evicted from cache but handle that properly!) On the other hand, it's the least worst podcast app I've tried on iOS thus far.
- weaksauce 4y agoyeah i have no idea why you can't sort the list of podcasts manually but at least i figured out you can pin the ones to the top in the (iirc) reverse order you pin them. least worst podcast app is probably the best way to put it. pretty good but definitely could be really good with some ux designer love.
- arthurcolle 4y agoI wanted something for my computer. But yeah Overcast is solid for the phone
- can16358p 4y agoWeird. One of my random contacts just sent me a Game Center friend request an hour ago... which I never use. I even forgot such a thing existed. Started to think its related somehow.
- jalino23 4y agoapp store aint down for me
- Jtsummers 4y agoClick on the individual service (or use the mobile site that doesn't require that) and you get this: Today, 2:03 PM - ongoing Some users are affected This service may be slow or unavailable. It's not a total outage.
- aluminum96 4y agoI love how the Apple status dashboard actually goes red when services are down. You'd think that would be easy, but most companies prefer to lie with their dashboards to meet SLOs.
- Matl 4y agoI agree, but does Apple run a SaaS that has SLA of the likes of GCP say?
- irsagent 4y agoI agree. No BS, just the facts, of whether or not ther services are running
- radicaldreamer 4y agoSlack is notorious for not reflecting issues on their dashboard
- guestbest 4y agoIf slack chat is down and they use it internally, how would they know about outages. Probably would need sms
- lelandbatey 4y agoSlack the company does use Slack the product for inter-company communication. However, their Slack-inside-Slack is a relatively isolated "instance" of Slack on separate infrastructure for exactly that reason. The exact level of isolation/redundancy is not clear to me though. Source: I asked a Slack engineer about this in-person. Maybe a real Slack employee can chime in with more info.
- grupthink 4y agoInteresting. I woke up to find that my iCloud & App Store accounts got locked. I was able to recover my account by resetting my password though. I wonder if it's related to this outage.
- 112233 4y agoMuy anecdote: could not work because mac was randomly popping up "please sign in to your apple id to use podcasts" popup, stealing focus and obscuring screen few times a minute. entering password resulted in "incorrect password" and a repeat popup. Got real strong malware vibes, did upgrade+reboot, it passed. I wonder if its also related to this
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- vuln 4y agoWow, a clean and accurate status page. Companies can learn from this.
- jrgaston 4y agoOpened the iTunes store an hour ago, searched "Handel", went to albums, but could not open any album. So yeah, it was down.
- mshockwave 4y agoBoth App Stores, Apple Music, Podcasts...wow these are all high-value services
- art3m 4y agoToday I even called to a provider because of this. Music worked via cellular but didn’t via home wi-fi. It still works this way. Weird.
- ascagnel_ 4y agoIt’s not that weird —- if they have multiple data centers, your cell provider and home ISP may route you to different hosts. Given that they’re defining the outages as “some users” affected, it may be that only one of their DCs is seeing issues.
- flangola7 4y agoHow do you make a domain point to different IP addresses depending on the user's network? I never understood how CDNs do this
- wolfendin 4y agoThe dns server has multiple answers in the database and has logic to determine which one to respond with. Normally it’s based on the assume location of the client based on IP of the query but it need not be. “Geo DNS”
- error503 4y agoIn addition to GeoDNS as explained by my sibling post, this can be achieved not by making the domain point to different IP addresses, but by placing multiple instances of the same IP address in different points in the network (Anycast), and which one you hit is determined by routing policy. Some CDNs 'prefer' one approach or the other, e.g. Akamai tends to use DNS, CloudFlare tends to use Anycast, but these days most have the capability to do both or mix them as appropriate.
- thedougd 4y agoAlso a good chance you have an IPv6 address with your cellular connection.
- blululu 4y agoWell that might explain why I wasted the last hour trying to get an upload validated. Good thing I came here to procrastinate.
- jturolla 4y agoThe most surprising service in this page is probably: Walkie-Talkie - Available Have you ever made it work? I activelly tried multiple times with multiple friends and the best I could get was about 3 seconds of one-directional audio, with dropped connection right after.
- neoromantique 4y agoI've spent good 20 minutes trying to get it to work with me and my wife, but we both sent each other 'invites' that never arrived and it stayed like so since. We both are in "family" too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- gilgoomesh 4y agoI've had the same problem... invites never arrive.
- sircastor 4y agoWhen I first got my watch it worked great. A friend and geeked out about it for an hour while I was on a walk and I never used it again.
- shaunsingh0207 4y agoI was on a camping trip and we used it quite a few times just fine. I find it weird on this thread and the other AirTags how everyone has such varying experiences with the hardware. My AirTags don't work often, everyone else's are fine. My walkie talkie works, no-one else does ...
- noja 4y agoWFM. Like a walkie talkie: you need to hold down the button while you record your message. The audio is one-way. Then the other person takes their turn.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoAll Apple services have been for shit, the last week or so. I submit TestFlight builds, several times a day, and it's been a crapshoot, as to whether or not it submits, or I get told my account is borked.
- Kalanos 4y agohaha. that's more of a fact. appstore is always super slow