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They have a major outage every couple of years. These don't have as much impact as some other cloud outages because they only affect Apple products, i.e. they'r
by jonas21 10mo ago
They have a major outage every couple of years. These don't have as much impact as some other cloud outages because they only affect Apple products, i.e. they're not hosting services for other companies.
- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/apple-investigates-app-store-outage-on-ios-and-macos-devices.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/apple-investigates-app-store...
- https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/23/app-store-apple-music-apple-tv-outage/ https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/23/app-store-apple-music-a...
- https://www.the-sun.com/tech/4944089/apple-maps-down-icloud-outage/ https://www.the-sun.com/tech/4944089/apple-maps-down-icloud-...
- https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/08/itunes-and-app-stores-suffering-outage/ https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/08/itunes-and-app-stores-s...
- https://www.macrumors.com/2018/03/27/app-store-outage/ https://www.macrumors.com/2018/03/27/app-store-outage/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/02/apple-reporting-outages-for-many-of-its-services.html https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/02/apple-reporting-outages-for-...
- https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/11/some-apple-services-suffering-outages.html https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/11/some-apple-services-sufferin...
- rtkwe 10mo agoDo they offer many services for *OS apps or are they mostly independent and only service their own first party apps?
- cr125rider 10mo agoiCloud is the backend for basically any settings/file sync for normal apps.
- paxys 10mo agoBut it is mostly used for periodic backup/sync. So you aren't going to really notice unless it is a very long outage.
- ben_w 10mo agoTheoretically they offer quite a few; in practice, I think nowhere or almost nowhere I've ever worked has gone for those options (except my own self-published games), instead preferring a custom solution that can be shared with web and android.
- amw-zero 10mo agoHalf of the world uses Apple products, how is that not the maximum possible impact?
- TiredOfLife 10mo agoApple market share is about 30%
- fcsp 10mo agoFor mobile - For desktop computers, below 10% even. Given that only 73% of world population is estimated to have internet access in total, that makes it just a small fraction of world population overall
- kstrauser 10mo agoAs a portion of Internet users who regularly pay for and depend on hosted services, I bet that percentage is much, much higher.
- apparent 10mo agoUS marketshare is higher.
- NicoJuicy 10mo agoNo website uses Apple A sync issue in drive would barely be noticed.