These outages with iMessage and Facetime are almost routine now. I remember when people were bashing RIM when they suffered a rash of BBM outages; people were touting iPhones as an alternative. Hmm, I realize it's a bit of Apples to Oranges but Apple can't run a cloud service to save it's life.

iCloud is still too problematic. When is Apple finally going to sort out these recurring bugs?

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Originally Posted by 1983 

iCloud is still too problematic. When is Apple finally going to sort out these recurring bugs?

iCloud is amazing.

The problem is that Apple (and everything related to them..) is growing too quickly. 5 years ago they sold 4 million macs per year. Now they sell per quarter:

-30 million iPhones, 15 million iPads, 15 million iPods, 5 million macs, 2 OSes, lot's of software, lot's of Apps/music/movies and services, more hardware. iCloud just suffers with this sort of growing and demand.

Be patient and please behave with common-sense.

I think PhotoStream is also being affected. I took a picture on my iPhone, it's showing up on the Photostream on the phone, but isn't showing up on my Macbook Air's Photostream.

So is iMessage failing back to SMS on phones? Does that work even when you also/mainly use an ipad / mac? And can you still phone people without FaceTime?

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Originally Posted by markbyrn 

These outages with iMessage and Facetime are almost routine now. I remember when people were bashing RIM when they suffered a rash of BBM outages; people were touting iPhones as an alternative. Hmm, I realize it's a bit of Apples to Oranges but Apple can't run a cloud service to save it's life.

RIM never had this scale of users hammering their servers.

My att data connection and my cox internet goes down at least one a month for a period. I wonder why there aren't news articles every time they go out.

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Originally Posted by 1983 

iCloud is still too problematic. When is Apple finally going to sort out these recurring bugs?

I think its kind of funny that Apple gets so much attention from the media on the cloud services.  Apple is a failure when 1.1 % of users are affected but other companies can have their whole service or have more than half of their users affected and its not a big deal.  How silly.

Originally Posted by OriginalMacRat 
RIM never had this scale of users hammering their servers.

Hmm. Didn't they? Do we know stats on 1) BBM's hardware install base and 2) the number of BBMs sent? 

While no one else seems to want to give up their own internal data like that, Apple's great about telling us that however many billion iMessages have been sent, and I really think that's their subtle way of saying, "Hey, you're having a problem with it? So are we. Look at these numbers; no one has ever had to deal with this sort of infrastructure before."

Remember when Twitter being down was a nearly weekly thing? Talk about growing pains. Apple's suffering them too, just smaller ones.