Comments on: With iMessage outage, another hiccup for iCloud http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/with-imessage-outage-another-hiccup-for-icloud/ Wed, 22 May 2013 21:24:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: churchcat http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/with-imessage-outage-another-hiccup-for-icloud/#comment-1014464 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:14:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=563673#comment-1014464 What I would like to find out, is if anybody has ever had an issue when sharing iTunes account with a family member? On September 19th, my husband somehow got intergrated into a conversation I was having with my friend. No, I wasnt sending group messages. In fact, I could see when messages were coming from my side of the conversation, though I didnt send them! Most people would think their significant other somehow hacked their account to pull a prank, but my husband isnt that IT intuned nor does he want to be bothered with mine and my friend’s silly random discussions. I dont know what fix I applied in my settings that actually did the trick, but now I keep wondering when it will happen again.

]]> By: Parker Worthington http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/with-imessage-outage-another-hiccup-for-icloud/#comment-1004663 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:05:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=563673#comment-1004663 icloud is un-realible, laggy and bug ridden. I can’t believe I having these thoughts but truthfully I’m beginning to regret moving my “life” to apple in the first place.

]]> By: David Mytton http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/with-imessage-outage-another-hiccup-for-icloud/#comment-1004301 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:38:46 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=563673#comment-1004301 Perhaps part of the problem is the lack of transparency from Apple. Even though they provide a status page at http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/ it doesn’t seem to include iMessage and is quite hidden in the Apple site. Plus it doesn’t feel like it’s an important part of Apple’s public message and they don’t release detailed explanations or post-mortems.

From our own service issues at Server Density and those from services we use, customers appreciate being told what the problems were and that usually makes up for the outage itself (assuming the root cause is reported then fixed so it doesn’t repeat).

Downtime is unavoidable. How you manage the response is what counts.

]]> By: Adam C http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/with-imessage-outage-another-hiccup-for-icloud/#comment-1002649 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:42:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=563673#comment-1002649 iCloud was introduced in June 2011 and it takes time for this service to be perfected.

It is easy to throw the book at Apple when their services failed but come back in a few years when their servers farm are fully operational and their services are matured.

But in the mean time you can still accuse them of failing when they are at fault an it is good for you.

]]> By: Ric Brook http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/with-imessage-outage-another-hiccup-for-icloud/#comment-1002547 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:59:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=563673#comment-1002547 So why does Google’s servers for Gmail or Talk go down? Oh that’s right because they have multiple backups to prevent this happening!

]]> By: Core http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/with-imessage-outage-another-hiccup-for-icloud/#comment-1002365 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:08:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=563673#comment-1002365 Pathetic isn’t it when you start any communication off by, Test 1… Test 2??

The apple has a worm and needs some high tech pesticide so it’s doesn’t continue to fall far from the tree.

What about the disaster about the UDID’s missing and hacked. Hope yours isn’t one of them.

]]> By: RaptorOO7 http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/with-imessage-outage-another-hiccup-for-icloud/#comment-1002285 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:09:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=563673#comment-1002285 Its becoming clear that Apple still doesn’t get the cloud and how to manage it. They don’t understand Cloud integration, how to manage their systems across (multiple) massive data centers. Sure SMS has a security flaw so Apple says use iMessage, how exactly is that an answer to a know flaw they should be helping to plug and how is it beneficial when their iMessage service FAILS.

]]> By: Scott http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/with-imessage-outage-another-hiccup-for-icloud/#comment-1002152 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:22:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=563673#comment-1002152 The idea that a server/service isn’t going to go down at some point is unrealistic. It’s never convenient and can be very frustrating, but it’s impossible for anyone to name a provider that hasn’t had issues in the past and won’t in the future. Apple is superior in numerous ways and I’m not an Apple apologist, but it seems the bar is being set higher because of their success. Success does not equal perfection…or full control of the Interwebs.

Anyone that depends on a single provider be it messaging, email, etc. is bound to be disappointed. The only way to ensure that you can text/message or email is to have access to more than one account. These things happen.

]]> By: Tom http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/with-imessage-outage-another-hiccup-for-icloud/#comment-1002134 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 22:01:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=563673#comment-1002134 iCloud != iMessage

]]> By: Ken'Nia http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/with-imessage-outage-another-hiccup-for-icloud/#comment-1002114 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:44:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=563673#comment-1002114 My imessaging is still not working & I’m not happy .

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