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Apple Dev Center outage

226 points by gurgeous 13y ago

danilocampos 13y ago
I've had an active developer program account since 2008. While various tools have gone offline now and then, and there are planned shutdowns around the holidays and during keynotes, this incident seems unique. Wonder what's going on over there. This outage makes the provisioning portal inaccessible. That could mean very real work disruptions, since no new code signing credentials can be made.
- millerm 13y ago
  NSA hooks in the dev forums? ;-) Crap, I'm not getting hell-banned am I? Anyway, yeah. It's gone down a couple times for scheduled maintenance and we've been notified. This one wasn't mentioned at all. No surfin' the forums today/yesterday. boo.
- Pwntastic 13y ago
  I've managed to successfully provision new devices and run dev apps on them yesterday using xcode's organizer, so at least there's that.
  - danilocampos 13y ago
    Did you need to do anything special? Keeps timing out when I try to use it.
    - Pwntastic 13y ago
      No. I had to add a few new iPads, so I opened the organizer, clicked the 'use for development' button and it was good. It took a little bit for the actual provisioning profile to update but I was able to run the dev app on the device right away. This was yesterday morning. I haven't tried today, though.
- threeseed 13y ago
  My guess it's the SAN. Many enterprise deployments I've seen will expose the same binaries across the many servers in the cluster. And it fits in well with an across the board fault.
- to3m 13y ago
  There was an incidence of what I suppose we should term "unannounced maintenance" a few months ago.
millerm 13y ago
I hope it's something good. But, my guess is it won't be anything noticeable. Replacing that horrible Jive forum software would rock as it's awful.
gurgeous 13y ago
The entire Apple dev center is down. That makes it impossible to download the iOS or Mac SDKs, including the iOS 7 beta. It's also not possible to provision new devices or update expired certificates. The developer forums are down too, which is somewhat frustrating since that's the only place we can discuss the still-under-NDA iOS 7. iTunes connect appears to be up. Apologies for those who posted this earlier. The headline gets more interesting as the outage continues.
- yapcguy 13y ago
  No forum means no complaints which future developers can look back on...
  - senorprogrammer 13y ago
    The simpler explanation is that the cluster running all developer-related sites is down. It doesn't always have to be a conspiracy.
    - deleted 13y ago
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  - tl 13y ago
    Oddly enough, the forums went down sometime after the dev center. I was able to access them yesterday, and there were no posts on the issue. At the time, I figured that a new beta might be going up or that it was a short outage.
- deleted 13y ago
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- dasil003 13y ago
  I can confirm iTunes connect is up because our app entered review and was rejected within that last 3 hours :(
  - 0x0 13y ago
RealCasually 13y ago
Nothing like discovering your recently released app crashes on iOS 7 and being unable to download the SDK to find out why, or fix it.
- k-mcgrady 13y ago
  Is that really so urgent? The majority of the people using iOS 7 are developers, understand apps will be buggy under it and wouldn't leave a bad review. I'm sure an extra few hours wait won't make too much difference :)
  - mikeash 13y ago
    I don't know about that. There's a huge community of non-developers who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, love to put beta OSes on their phones. I'd wager they outnumber legitimate developers using the beta by a hefty margin. And a lot of them don't understand the implications of doing this. Stories of unjustified bad reviews being left by users like these due to poor behavior on iOS 7 are really common in the community.
    - gambiting 13y ago
      Yeah I had a flatmate who was a complete Apple fanatic and would torrent beta-versions of all their software, so he always had the cutting edge revision of OSX and iOS, even though he was not very technically inclined. He just liked having the newest and latest.
    - ben1040 13y ago
      Does the App Store block reviews from beta OS users? Maybe what needs to happen is if you load a beta OS on a device, it should block reviews from any Apple IDs that were associated with that device until the OS is generally available. After all, they do warn you that you should never install a beta OS on your daily use device and they are for development purposes only.
      - rbritton 13y ago
k-mcgrady 13y ago
Is it still possible to provision devices through Xcode while it's down? The message they've went with is very strange: "This site is undergoing maintenance for an extended period today." Normally they give a few weeks warning for maintenance.
- chrisdevereux 13y ago
  If it was planned maintenance, it probably would have happened before WWDC and the iOS 7 betas.
  - k-mcgrady 13y ago
    Why? They do maintenance at different points throughout the year.
    - chrisdevereux 13y ago
      Wild speculation. But it would make sense to schedule maintenance for a relatively low-traffic period.
- Pwntastic 13y ago
  I think so, yes. I provisioned a few devices yesterday through xcode during the outage and it updated my provisioning profiles successfully.
jbermudez5 13y ago
Just when you need to send an adhoc build.....
- smuckfordshire 13y ago
  Or download the command line tools! The downside of all this nice Xcode integration.
  - nwh 13y ago
    http://techytoolbox.com/clt/xcode452cltools10_86938211a.dmg http://techytoolbox.com/clt/xcode452cltools10_86938211a.dmg The URI is from https://github.com/jwaldrip/dev-setup/blob/master/setup_environment.rb https://github.com/jwaldrip/dev-setup/blob/master/setup_envi... , which looks trustworthy enough. Use at your own risk though.
    - smuckfordshire 13y ago
      Thanks! Looking for a later version, but appreciate the help.
      - dunham 13y ago
        If you have another machine with the tools installed, you may find the DMG you want in ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/Downloads
- monkey_slap 13y ago
  Check out Nomad, it's by Mattt (of AFNetworking fame). http://nomad-cli.com/ http://nomad-cli.com/
  - mlarratt 13y ago
    This uses web scraping of the developer portal behind the scenes, and as a result the Cupertino module is unusable during this outage.
ksec 13y ago
Outage? Or Maintenance? These are two different things.
- davidcollantes 13y ago
  The page reads maintenance. But it is a service interruption, wether planned or not, it is also an outage.
- outside1234 13y ago
  Any downtime in a cloud service is an outage. Any attempt to term it anything else labels the organization as amateur.
- alex_c 13y ago
  Without any kind of email or notice to developers, it's an outage. A big one.
- tater 13y ago
  I'm told this was scheduled.
  - atomicbird 13y ago
    It's hard to believe that something this long would have been scheduled but that they wouldn't have told anyone about it.
iNeal 13y ago
Not sure where you got 28 hours (35 mins ago) from when it hasn't been even 27 hours yet (at this moment).
- millerm 13y ago
  I got it... Took a flight from a MDT city to an EDT city and forgot to set their watch.
amccloud 13y ago
I'm grasping at straws here, but maybe it was a security breach?
- ferdo 13y ago
  My first thought also.
  - rgbrenner 13y ago
    Why? There's really no reason to think that. Of all of the things that can go wrong - power, equipment, network, etc - you pick 'security breach'... Not impossible.. but not the most likely either.
    - outside1234 13y ago
      Plus its Apple, who have proven themselves as amateurs at anything in the cloud.
    - ferdo 13y ago
      Power, network, etc. have redundancy. Security breach is a show stopper.
      - res0nat0r 13y ago
        Except for the AWS EBS outage a couple of years ago which had nothing to do with a security breach. http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ Cascading catastrophic failures do happen that don't involve security.
        ferdo 13y ago
        I'd think that Apple would be happy to tell us it was a simple power/network failure were that the case. Sudden shutdown of vital service + silence = most likely a security prob. I'm not saying that's what it is but it seems likely.
davidedicillo 13y ago
Right in the middle or renewing the our account. I need to activate the new license and, since I can't, people can't download our app from the store. Talking about fail...
- millerm 13y ago
  You waited until the last day?
  - davidedicillo 13y ago
    Well it was 2 days before... (I actually did it early but renewed by mistake another account we have)
    - millerm 13y ago
      Doh! Been there. But, I renew a month in advance. As soon as I get the reminder because I don't want to deal with issues, like this.
    - salahxanadu 13y ago
      Argh! I'm in the same boat. I'm 2 days from expiration and I have the activation code. I just couldn't do it at work and forgot to update my home computer Xcode the one evening that I had a chance before this outage.
- dubcanada 13y ago
  No, waiting until the day it expires before renewing is fail :)
- silenteh 13y ago
  You can make a phone call to Apple and they will extend your account for few days if you will explain the situation.
- millerm 13y ago
  Looks like you are good with apple as they extended your account's renewal date due to the outage. On another note... This is getting strange now.
j45 13y ago
I predict the entry of a new phrase into our lexicon Bad antenna = "You're holding it wrong" Outage = "Extended Maintenance" http://i.imgur.com/14K9ogF.png http://i.imgur.com/14K9ogF.png
- bch 13y ago
  This is typical though. You don't really expect "Holy cow! Something is screwed up!!" from Microsoft, Apple, AT&T, Dell, Ford, etc, do you? Sassy/cute messages like that are the domain of Github and Twitter.
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- schrodinger 13y ago
  That comment wasn't constructive the first 2 times.
peterkelly 13y ago
Wait, does this mean the entire Cloud is down? I can still access Google and Amazon.
- riazrizvi 13y ago
  Correct. The entire cloud, aka internet, is down. The only reason you can access Google and Amazon is because of the latent electricity in their data centers' cabling. It's just a matter of time before they go dark too. Good luck.
warcher 13y ago
Something real, real bad happened down Apple way. The only explanation that passes the sniff test for me is a security breach. A big one. Playstation store big. I mean, it's a huge outage in the middle of the week. Nobody does that if something hasn't gone disastrously wrong. And iffy as Apple's web infrastructure historically has been, it's hard to imagine a system malfunction that they couldn't route around in some kind of reduced capacity in this amount of time. So. Is Apple gonna drop trou and own up to what the hell happened, or are they gonna get the servers back up and pretend that we saw all this smoke and no fire?
- ctdonath 13y ago
  Well, apply the standard Apple social introversion: it's down, they're telling you it's down and will be for a while, it will be back up as soon as they can fix it, what exactly is wrong isn't your problem, when it's back up you'll know and it won't matter what happened so long as it gets up and stays up.
  - warcher 13y ago
    Well, the App Store is how I make my living, so their developer portal's uptime directly affects me. Especially if it was a security breach. And the argument that it won't matter as long as it gets up and stays up has already been invalidated by this outage. If they were perfectly in control, this wouldn't have happened. So we know for a fact that they are not 100% in control of the website. (I mean, obviously, 100% control is a mathematical impossibility.) But how much less? What happened? If it was an hour, or even two, I'd let it ride as a cost of running a big-ass data center. But this... warrants an explanation.
    - k-mcgrady 13y ago
      >> "Well, the App Store is how I make my living, so their developer portal's uptime directly affects me." How much is this outage affecting you? You can still provision devices etc. through Xcode, documentation's still online. I'm also a full-time iOS developer and hadn't even noticed it had gone down I go to it so infrequently.
aroman 13y ago
Amusingly (or perhaps frustratingly) their status site is showing all-systems-go: http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/ http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
- tylermac1 13y ago
  None of those are within the Developer Center. It's very possible for those to be up and running while dev portal is down.
  - aroman 13y ago
    Right, that page doesn't even have the capability of reporting this outage. Kind of makes it a bit unreliable as a status page, you know?
    - glhaynes 13y ago
      :| It doesn't make it unreliable as a status page showing the status of those things it's intended to show the status of.
      - aroman 13y ago
        No, of course not. It makes it unreliable as an indicator of the Apple ecosystem's platform status. Which would be fine, were this not the only such status page Apple provides. I'm saying it's lacking, not broken.
        LokiSnake 13y ago
        The page is meant to track consumer services.
        deadreturns2 13y ago
        STFU idiots. Who cares!
zainali 13y ago
Anyone have an Xcode 5 dmg?
- joeblau 13y ago
  I do, but how can I be so sure you're a AAPL developer :).
  - LokiSnake 13y ago
    I got XCode 5 but none of the documentation installed. :(
  - zainali 13y ago
    I work at Sincerely :0) I'm the only one with iOS7 on my phone but need to build to it right now and don't have xcode 5 :/ I suppose I could wait
joeblau 13y ago
Finally someone has chimed in on this. I've been trying to update my provisioning profile since yesterday.
whiddershins 13y ago
I find it curious no apple rep is here, commenting on this post.
- alex_c 13y ago
  Apple typically doesn't engage with the developer community outside official channels, do they? I don't remember ever reading a post here by an Apple employee in an official or even semi-official capacity.
- untog 13y ago
  Really? When have you ever seen Apple reach out to the outside tech community, ever?
  - jopt 13y ago
    They sometimes do, even if you don't count shutting down the operations for a week every WWDC. Examples: * http://www.macworld.com/article/1167247/cook_apple_planning_professional_mac_for_2013.html http://www.macworld.com/article/1167247/cook_apple_planning_... * http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion Unless by "outside" you mean those they don't reach out to, but that would be true by definition and so fairly moot.
  - to3m 13y ago
    Every now and again an Apple person will pop up on the Xcode mailing list to tell people to submit a bug report on Radar. They sometimes also reassure all that, yes, despite all evidence to the contrary, bug reports DO get read - though I note that they are always extremely careful to promise no more than that.
- general_failure 13y ago
  Apple employees are not supposed to have any real online presence. Kinda sad that anyone wants to work there really.
- rsynnott 13y ago
  Seriously? This is _Apple_. When the multi-region AWS outage occurred a while back, Amazon was unwilling to talk about what had happened for a week, and they're a rather less secretive company.
suyash 13y ago
It's working now: https://developer.apple.com/ https://developer.apple.com/
- hnrandom 13y ago
  lol no https://developer.apple.com/membercenter https://developer.apple.com/membercenter
josephwegner 13y ago
It's been down at least since yesterday afternoon: https://twitter.com/Joe_Wegner/status/357956388833599488 https://twitter.com/Joe_Wegner/status/357956388833599488
- iNeal 13y ago
  It's been down since Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:26:42 +0000. https://twitter.com/iOS_DevCenter/status/357869041005760512 https://twitter.com/iOS_DevCenter/status/357869041005760512
eskimoroll 13y ago
This is a major bummer. I wanted to push out some more TestFlight builds yesterday and have been in limbo ever since.
tritchey 13y ago
Craig Hockenberry: "Just talked to WWDR on the phone: no ETA." https://twitter.com/chockenberry/status/358315230742331393 https://twitter.com/chockenberry/status/358315230742331393
ValG 13y ago
Forums are now down as well.
- LokiSnake 13y ago
  Forums were down since yesterday for at least 24 hours as well.
  - eni9889 13y ago
    I was able to access them for quite a while even long enough to read complaints about the outage. Wonder if they just turned them off to prevent all the would be posts about the downtime
hamxiaoz 13y ago
It's interesting I was trying to download xcode commandline tools for setting up my new mac, the website was down but you can still download it in xcode download panel. (assuming you already have xcode installed).
yanghan 13y ago
Anyone else getting strange emails to Reset Apple ID Password? I received two today
- davvid 13y ago
  I've gotten these twice in the last two weeks.
skyebook 13y ago
Interesting, it looks like the WebObjects application(s) has actually been undeployed. I poked around the main developer.apple.com for a bit until I got here: https://developer.apple.com/programs/start/safari/enroll.php?t=cm https://developer.apple.com/programs/start/safari/enroll.php... Clicking the "Individual" button on the bottom throws up a WebObjects error: http://i.imgur.com/xcfZ5ip.png http://i.imgur.com/xcfZ5ip.png (Yes, that's probably the smallest I've ever made my Safari window. You're welcome, mobile readers)
- threeseed 13y ago
  Or it could be that the shared storage that the apps are likely hosted on could have a problem.
- madeofpalk 13y ago
  Well that is a bit interesting. The message from AppleConnect (being the auth platform that is behind the"Apple ID") indicates that the "Developer" application has been revoked and is no longer allowed to auth with AppleConnect. Perhaps there was a security breach?
- sjwright 13y ago
  I'm surprised they're allowing the application servers to respond to public requests while under maintenance.
stokedmartin 13y ago
this is screwed up too http://devimages.apple.com/ http://devimages.apple.com/
- iNeal 13y ago
  It has always been.
esamek 13y ago
its back for me [edit] nvm, that was the marketing developer site.
perlpimp 13y ago
anonymous has been hitting targets listed in Prism presentation of late - could be one of the anonymous' casualties?
- eni9889 13y ago
  Even if that were true one would think that with all the resources Apple has they would be able to handle a DDOS. It would be nice if this was intentional but sadly judging by how long its been thats very unlikely so DDOS is possible.
dennycd 13y ago
the maintenance page has a new update just now saying this We'll be back soon. We apologize that maintenance is taking longer than expected. If your program membership was set to expire during this period, it has been extended and your app will remain on the App Store. If you have any other concerns about your account, please contact us.
martin_ 13y ago
Apple has just updated the page stating that memberships due to expire today have been extended and apps will not be removed from the App Store. They have also apologized for it taking "longer than expected"
- josephlord 13y ago
  I also just received an email to this effect even though I have already renewed. Also the iTunes connect mobile app seems to be working still.
  - xuki 13y ago
    iTunes connect works fine, just the dev portal is down
mhteas 13y ago
The WWDC vids are in an app this year, not on iTunesU. Te an phones home to validate that you are a developer. It too is inaccessible now since dev center is down is down.
KevinTraver 13y ago
https://twitter.com/search?q=apple%20password%20reset&src=typd&mode=realtime https://twitter.com/search?q=apple%20password%20reset&src=ty...
unixroot 13y ago
Apple’s Developer Center Offline for 32 Hours; Compromised ? Details : http://thehackernews.com/2013/07/apples-developer-center-offline-for-32.html http://thehackernews.com/2013/07/apples-developer-center-off...

226 points by gurgeous 13y ago

I've had an active developer program account since 2008. While various tools have gone offline now and then, and there are planned shutdowns around the holidays and during keynotes, this incident seems unique. Wonder what's going on over there. This outage makes the provisioning portal inaccessible. That could mean very real work disruptions, since no new code signing credentials can be made.

millerm 13y ago
NSA hooks in the dev forums? ;-) Crap, I'm not getting hell-banned am I? Anyway, yeah. It's gone down a couple times for scheduled maintenance and we've been notified. This one wasn't mentioned at all. No surfin' the forums today/yesterday. boo.
Pwntastic 13y ago
I've managed to successfully provision new devices and run dev apps on them yesterday using xcode's organizer, so at least there's that.
- danilocampos 13y ago
  Did you need to do anything special? Keeps timing out when I try to use it.
  - Pwntastic 13y ago
    No. I had to add a few new iPads, so I opened the organizer, clicked the 'use for development' button and it was good. It took a little bit for the actual provisioning profile to update but I was able to run the dev app on the device right away. This was yesterday morning. I haven't tried today, though.
threeseed 13y ago
My guess it's the SAN. Many enterprise deployments I've seen will expose the same binaries across the many servers in the cluster. And it fits in well with an across the board fault.
to3m 13y ago
There was an incidence of what I suppose we should term "unannounced maintenance" a few months ago.

millerm 13y ago

I hope it's something good. But, my guess is it won't be anything noticeable. Replacing that horrible Jive forum software would rock as it's awful.

gurgeous 13y ago

The entire Apple dev center is down. That makes it impossible to download the iOS or Mac SDKs, including the iOS 7 beta. It's also not possible to provision new devices or update expired certificates. The developer forums are down too, which is somewhat frustrating since that's the only place we can discuss the still-under-NDA iOS 7. iTunes connect appears to be up. Apologies for those who posted this earlier. The headline gets more interesting as the outage continues.

yapcguy 13y ago
No forum means no complaints which future developers can look back on...
- senorprogrammer 13y ago
  The simpler explanation is that the cluster running all developer-related sites is down. It doesn't always have to be a conspiracy.
  - deleted 13y ago
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- tl 13y ago
  Oddly enough, the forums went down sometime after the dev center. I was able to access them yesterday, and there were no posts on the issue. At the time, I figured that a new beta might be going up or that it was a short outage.
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dasil003 13y ago
I can confirm iTunes connect is up because our app entered review and was rejected within that last 3 hours :(
- 0x0 13y ago

RealCasually 13y ago

Nothing like discovering your recently released app crashes on iOS 7 and being unable to download the SDK to find out why, or fix it.

k-mcgrady 13y ago
Is that really so urgent? The majority of the people using iOS 7 are developers, understand apps will be buggy under it and wouldn't leave a bad review. I'm sure an extra few hours wait won't make too much difference :)
- mikeash 13y ago
  I don't know about that. There's a huge community of non-developers who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, love to put beta OSes on their phones. I'd wager they outnumber legitimate developers using the beta by a hefty margin. And a lot of them don't understand the implications of doing this. Stories of unjustified bad reviews being left by users like these due to poor behavior on iOS 7 are really common in the community.
  - gambiting 13y ago
    Yeah I had a flatmate who was a complete Apple fanatic and would torrent beta-versions of all their software, so he always had the cutting edge revision of OSX and iOS, even though he was not very technically inclined. He just liked having the newest and latest.
  - ben1040 13y ago
    Does the App Store block reviews from beta OS users? Maybe what needs to happen is if you load a beta OS on a device, it should block reviews from any Apple IDs that were associated with that device until the OS is generally available. After all, they do warn you that you should never install a beta OS on your daily use device and they are for development purposes only.
    - rbritton 13y ago

k-mcgrady 13y ago

Is it still possible to provision devices through Xcode while it's down? The message they've went with is very strange: "This site is undergoing maintenance for an extended period today." Normally they give a few weeks warning for maintenance.

chrisdevereux 13y ago
If it was planned maintenance, it probably would have happened before WWDC and the iOS 7 betas.
- k-mcgrady 13y ago
  Why? They do maintenance at different points throughout the year.
  - chrisdevereux 13y ago
    Wild speculation. But it would make sense to schedule maintenance for a relatively low-traffic period.
Pwntastic 13y ago
I think so, yes. I provisioned a few devices yesterday through xcode during the outage and it updated my provisioning profiles successfully.

jbermudez5 13y ago

Just when you need to send an adhoc build.....

smuckfordshire 13y ago
Or download the command line tools! The downside of all this nice Xcode integration.
- nwh 13y ago
  http://techytoolbox.com/clt/xcode452cltools10_86938211a.dmg http://techytoolbox.com/clt/xcode452cltools10_86938211a.dmg The URI is from https://github.com/jwaldrip/dev-setup/blob/master/setup_environment.rb https://github.com/jwaldrip/dev-setup/blob/master/setup_envi... , which looks trustworthy enough. Use at your own risk though.
  - smuckfordshire 13y ago
    Thanks! Looking for a later version, but appreciate the help.
    - dunham 13y ago
      If you have another machine with the tools installed, you may find the DMG you want in ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.dt.Xcode/Downloads
monkey_slap 13y ago
Check out Nomad, it's by Mattt (of AFNetworking fame). http://nomad-cli.com/ http://nomad-cli.com/
- mlarratt 13y ago
  This uses web scraping of the developer portal behind the scenes, and as a result the Cupertino module is unusable during this outage.

ksec 13y ago

Outage? Or Maintenance? These are two different things.

davidcollantes 13y ago
The page reads maintenance. But it is a service interruption, wether planned or not, it is also an outage.
outside1234 13y ago
Any downtime in a cloud service is an outage. Any attempt to term it anything else labels the organization as amateur.
alex_c 13y ago
Without any kind of email or notice to developers, it's an outage. A big one.
tater 13y ago
I'm told this was scheduled.
- atomicbird 13y ago
  It's hard to believe that something this long would have been scheduled but that they wouldn't have told anyone about it.

iNeal 13y ago

Not sure where you got 28 hours (35 mins ago) from when it hasn't been even 27 hours yet (at this moment).

millerm 13y ago
I got it... Took a flight from a MDT city to an EDT city and forgot to set their watch.

amccloud 13y ago

I'm grasping at straws here, but maybe it was a security breach?

ferdo 13y ago
My first thought also.
- rgbrenner 13y ago
  Why? There's really no reason to think that. Of all of the things that can go wrong - power, equipment, network, etc - you pick 'security breach'... Not impossible.. but not the most likely either.
  - outside1234 13y ago
    Plus its Apple, who have proven themselves as amateurs at anything in the cloud.
  - ferdo 13y ago
    Power, network, etc. have redundancy. Security breach is a show stopper.
    - res0nat0r 13y ago
      Except for the AWS EBS outage a couple of years ago which had nothing to do with a security breach. http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ Cascading catastrophic failures do happen that don't involve security.
      - ferdo 13y ago
        I'd think that Apple would be happy to tell us it was a simple power/network failure were that the case. Sudden shutdown of vital service + silence = most likely a security prob. I'm not saying that's what it is but it seems likely.

davidedicillo 13y ago

Right in the middle or renewing the our account. I need to activate the new license and, since I can't, people can't download our app from the store. Talking about fail...

millerm 13y ago
You waited until the last day?
- davidedicillo 13y ago
  Well it was 2 days before... (I actually did it early but renewed by mistake another account we have)
  - millerm 13y ago
    Doh! Been there. But, I renew a month in advance. As soon as I get the reminder because I don't want to deal with issues, like this.
  - salahxanadu 13y ago
    Argh! I'm in the same boat. I'm 2 days from expiration and I have the activation code. I just couldn't do it at work and forgot to update my home computer Xcode the one evening that I had a chance before this outage.
dubcanada 13y ago
No, waiting until the day it expires before renewing is fail :)
silenteh 13y ago
You can make a phone call to Apple and they will extend your account for few days if you will explain the situation.
millerm 13y ago
Looks like you are good with apple as they extended your account's renewal date due to the outage. On another note... This is getting strange now.

j45 13y ago

I predict the entry of a new phrase into our lexicon Bad antenna = "You're holding it wrong" Outage = "Extended Maintenance" http://i.imgur.com/14K9ogF.png http://i.imgur.com/14K9ogF.png

bch 13y ago
This is typical though. You don't really expect "Holy cow! Something is screwed up!!" from Microsoft, Apple, AT&T, Dell, Ford, etc, do you? Sassy/cute messages like that are the domain of Github and Twitter.

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schrodinger 13y ago
That comment wasn't constructive the first 2 times.

peterkelly 13y ago

Wait, does this mean the entire Cloud is down? I can still access Google and Amazon.

riazrizvi 13y ago
Correct. The entire cloud, aka internet, is down. The only reason you can access Google and Amazon is because of the latent electricity in their data centers' cabling. It's just a matter of time before they go dark too. Good luck.

warcher 13y ago

Something real, real bad happened down Apple way. The only explanation that passes the sniff test for me is a security breach. A big one. Playstation store big. I mean, it's a huge outage in the middle of the week. Nobody does that if something hasn't gone disastrously wrong. And iffy as Apple's web infrastructure historically has been, it's hard to imagine a system malfunction that they couldn't route around in some kind of reduced capacity in this amount of time. So. Is Apple gonna drop trou and own up to what the hell happened, or are they gonna get the servers back up and pretend that we saw all this smoke and no fire?

ctdonath 13y ago
Well, apply the standard Apple social introversion: it's down, they're telling you it's down and will be for a while, it will be back up as soon as they can fix it, what exactly is wrong isn't your problem, when it's back up you'll know and it won't matter what happened so long as it gets up and stays up.
- warcher 13y ago
  Well, the App Store is how I make my living, so their developer portal's uptime directly affects me. Especially if it was a security breach. And the argument that it won't matter as long as it gets up and stays up has already been invalidated by this outage. If they were perfectly in control, this wouldn't have happened. So we know for a fact that they are not 100% in control of the website. (I mean, obviously, 100% control is a mathematical impossibility.) But how much less? What happened? If it was an hour, or even two, I'd let it ride as a cost of running a big-ass data center. But this... warrants an explanation.
  - k-mcgrady 13y ago
    >> "Well, the App Store is how I make my living, so their developer portal's uptime directly affects me." How much is this outage affecting you? You can still provision devices etc. through Xcode, documentation's still online. I'm also a full-time iOS developer and hadn't even noticed it had gone down I go to it so infrequently.

aroman 13y ago

Amusingly (or perhaps frustratingly) their status site is showing all-systems-go: http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/ http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

tylermac1 13y ago
None of those are within the Developer Center. It's very possible for those to be up and running while dev portal is down.
- aroman 13y ago
  Right, that page doesn't even have the capability of reporting this outage. Kind of makes it a bit unreliable as a status page, you know?
  - glhaynes 13y ago
    :| It doesn't make it unreliable as a status page showing the status of those things it's intended to show the status of.
    - aroman 13y ago
      No, of course not. It makes it unreliable as an indicator of the Apple ecosystem's platform status. Which would be fine, were this not the only such status page Apple provides. I'm saying it's lacking, not broken.
      - LokiSnake 13y ago
        The page is meant to track consumer services.
        deadreturns2 13y ago
        STFU idiots. Who cares!

zainali 13y ago

Anyone have an Xcode 5 dmg?

joeblau 13y ago
I do, but how can I be so sure you're a AAPL developer :).
- LokiSnake 13y ago
  I got XCode 5 but none of the documentation installed. :(
- zainali 13y ago
  I work at Sincerely :0) I'm the only one with iOS7 on my phone but need to build to it right now and don't have xcode 5 :/ I suppose I could wait

joeblau 13y ago

Finally someone has chimed in on this. I've been trying to update my provisioning profile since yesterday.

whiddershins 13y ago

I find it curious no apple rep is here, commenting on this post.

alex_c 13y ago
Apple typically doesn't engage with the developer community outside official channels, do they? I don't remember ever reading a post here by an Apple employee in an official or even semi-official capacity.
untog 13y ago
Really? When have you ever seen Apple reach out to the outside tech community, ever?
- jopt 13y ago
  They sometimes do, even if you don't count shutting down the operations for a week every WWDC. Examples: * http://www.macworld.com/article/1167247/cook_apple_planning_professional_mac_for_2013.html http://www.macworld.com/article/1167247/cook_apple_planning_... * http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion Unless by "outside" you mean those they don't reach out to, but that would be true by definition and so fairly moot.
- to3m 13y ago
  Every now and again an Apple person will pop up on the Xcode mailing list to tell people to submit a bug report on Radar. They sometimes also reassure all that, yes, despite all evidence to the contrary, bug reports DO get read - though I note that they are always extremely careful to promise no more than that.
general_failure 13y ago
Apple employees are not supposed to have any real online presence. Kinda sad that anyone wants to work there really.
rsynnott 13y ago
Seriously? This is _Apple_. When the multi-region AWS outage occurred a while back, Amazon was unwilling to talk about what had happened for a week, and they're a rather less secretive company.

suyash 13y ago

It's working now: https://developer.apple.com/ https://developer.apple.com/

hnrandom 13y ago
lol no https://developer.apple.com/membercenter https://developer.apple.com/membercenter

josephwegner 13y ago

It's been down at least since yesterday afternoon: https://twitter.com/Joe_Wegner/status/357956388833599488 https://twitter.com/Joe_Wegner/status/357956388833599488

iNeal 13y ago
It's been down since Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:26:42 +0000. https://twitter.com/iOS_DevCenter/status/357869041005760512 https://twitter.com/iOS_DevCenter/status/357869041005760512

eskimoroll 13y ago

This is a major bummer. I wanted to push out some more TestFlight builds yesterday and have been in limbo ever since.

tritchey 13y ago

Craig Hockenberry: "Just talked to WWDR on the phone: no ETA." https://twitter.com/chockenberry/status/358315230742331393 https://twitter.com/chockenberry/status/358315230742331393

ValG 13y ago

Forums are now down as well.

LokiSnake 13y ago
Forums were down since yesterday for at least 24 hours as well.
- eni9889 13y ago
  I was able to access them for quite a while even long enough to read complaints about the outage. Wonder if they just turned them off to prevent all the would be posts about the downtime

hamxiaoz 13y ago

It's interesting I was trying to download xcode commandline tools for setting up my new mac, the website was down but you can still download it in xcode download panel. (assuming you already have xcode installed).

yanghan 13y ago

Anyone else getting strange emails to Reset Apple ID Password? I received two today

davvid 13y ago
I've gotten these twice in the last two weeks.

skyebook 13y ago

Interesting, it looks like the WebObjects application(s) has actually been undeployed. I poked around the main developer.apple.com for a bit until I got here: https://developer.apple.com/programs/start/safari/enroll.php?t=cm https://developer.apple.com/programs/start/safari/enroll.php... Clicking the "Individual" button on the bottom throws up a WebObjects error: http://i.imgur.com/xcfZ5ip.png http://i.imgur.com/xcfZ5ip.png (Yes, that's probably the smallest I've ever made my Safari window. You're welcome, mobile readers)

threeseed 13y ago
Or it could be that the shared storage that the apps are likely hosted on could have a problem.
madeofpalk 13y ago
Well that is a bit interesting. The message from AppleConnect (being the auth platform that is behind the"Apple ID") indicates that the "Developer" application has been revoked and is no longer allowed to auth with AppleConnect. Perhaps there was a security breach?
sjwright 13y ago
I'm surprised they're allowing the application servers to respond to public requests while under maintenance.

stokedmartin 13y ago

this is screwed up too http://devimages.apple.com/ http://devimages.apple.com/

iNeal 13y ago
It has always been.

esamek 13y ago

its back for me [edit] nvm, that was the marketing developer site.

perlpimp 13y ago

anonymous has been hitting targets listed in Prism presentation of late - could be one of the anonymous' casualties?

eni9889 13y ago
Even if that were true one would think that with all the resources Apple has they would be able to handle a DDOS. It would be nice if this was intentional but sadly judging by how long its been thats very unlikely so DDOS is possible.

dennycd 13y ago

the maintenance page has a new update just now saying this We'll be back soon. We apologize that maintenance is taking longer than expected. If your program membership was set to expire during this period, it has been extended and your app will remain on the App Store. If you have any other concerns about your account, please contact us.

martin_ 13y ago

Apple has just updated the page stating that memberships due to expire today have been extended and apps will not be removed from the App Store. They have also apologized for it taking "longer than expected"

josephlord 13y ago
I also just received an email to this effect even though I have already renewed. Also the iTunes connect mobile app seems to be working still.
- xuki 13y ago
  iTunes connect works fine, just the dev portal is down

mhteas 13y ago

The WWDC vids are in an app this year, not on iTunesU. Te an phones home to validate that you are a developer. It too is inaccessible now since dev center is down is down.

KevinTraver 13y ago

https://twitter.com/search?q=apple%20password%20reset&src=typd&mode=realtime https://twitter.com/search?q=apple%20password%20reset&src=ty...

unixroot 13y ago

Apple’s Developer Center Offline for 32 Hours; Compromised ? Details : http://thehackernews.com/2013/07/apples-developer-center-offline-for-32.html http://thehackernews.com/2013/07/apples-developer-center-off...