Apple Experienced iCloud Issues After Christmas Surge (cnet.com) 13
"If you just received a new iPhone 12, Apple Watch or iPad, you might not have gotten immediate satisfaction — Apple was having some iCloud issues," reports CNET:
The issue started early on Christmas Day, according to the iCloud account and sign-in entry on Apple's system status page. More than a day later, as of late morning PT Saturday, the Apple system status page indicated that the issue with the storage service remained "ongoing." But by 2 p.m. PT Saturday, the iCloud issue was marked "resolved." No specifics were given about how widespread the problems might have been, only that "some users were affected."
The company also noted issues with Apple ID sign-in.
The company also noted issues with Apple ID sign-in.
BFW (Score:2, Insightful)
Thank $deity, no comments here yet (Score:2)
The lack of comments indicates that either slashdotters are out of jokes on Apple (rather hard to imagine), or that all of them bought an iPhone 12 and are still struggling to connect. Or perhaps we have a case of Schrödinger's phone, which is both connected and non-connected.
Re: (Score:2)
No, Schrödinger's phone now has an app that reminds him to feed the cat. That wasn't possible back in landline days.
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At first I didn't bother because I assumed if there were any comments they would mostly be the usual "don't trust the cloud" stuff.
Re:Motive for Nashville bombing (Score:5, Interesting)
It should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that the timing and location of the suicide bombing in Nashville at the AT&T central office is a large part of this. Internet and cellular service across half of the east coast has been impacted, as well as things like credit cards and air traffic control. It is completely certain that Apple's cloud operations could have been the target here.
AFAIK, Apple's cloud operations aren't in Nashville. The only known data centers are in Oregon, California, North Carolina, Nevada, Iowa, and Arizona, I think. I mean, AT&T does lease some space at that data center, so they *could* have some minor bit of data in some AWS cluster housed there or something, but it seems unlikely that anyone targeting Apple would pick that location.
But when a major hub goes down like that, the Internet has to route around it, and this creates absolute BGP chaos for a period of time. I'm currently in West Tennessee. My traffic to Knoxville goes through Atlanta and somewhere in South Carolina. In relative terms, that's not too bad. But my route from here to Nashville currently flows through three different major networks (two different cable companies plus L3) and goes through Atlanta, GA and San Jose, CA, because apparently L3 is the only company that this area's cable company peers with (even indirectly) that is still up in Nashville, and the cable companies were only expecting to peer with L3 for California traffic, I guess. My traffic takes a roughly 5,099 mile Internet path to go only 158 miles (by road, which isn't the straightest path by a long shot).
This has also impacted Sprint and T-Mobile cell service in large parts of the region, not just AT&T, because so much goes through that NOC.
Internet for the entire country is impacted to varying degrees because of newly clogged pipes, in part depending on whether AT&T's network provided transit for a particular portion of a given route, and in part depending on how much unexpected traffic is being dumped on peering points that weren't expected to handle it.
But things are still running. And that's downright amazing.
No Problemo for Android Users (Score:2)
Issues in the Cloud .. (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
"I used to get Androids for the kids because they were 'cheap', but the recurring costs, time investment and lack of reasonable parental controls is just not worth it."
This slashdot quote just popped up at the bottom of you post. Seems appropriate:
"The price one pays for pursuing an
Fuck iCloud (Score:2)
Yeah, really. Kill it. Although we have Apple devices at home, I have turned off all iCloud possibilities on any one of it, and I use Google or local storage.
Boycott iCloud, and show people alternatives.
Not the first time? (Score:2)
It was cloudi for a change.
I'll see myself out, thanks.