Apple iMessage reportedly suffers sporadic worldwide outages
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Apple's in-house instant messaging service, iMessage, is allegedly experiencing outages across the globe as users are reporting problems sending and receiving messages.
Despite displaying an "all clear" on its iCloud status website, iMessage users form around the world are complaining of sporadic service outages, according to reports from Apple's online Support Communities on Monday.
While the exact problem is currently unknown, it appears to be originating at Apple's servers as some users claim wireless provider-based SMS text messages are going through without issue. No effective workarounds have been found thus far, and Apple has yet to comment on the matter.
First introduced with iOS 5, the BlackBerry Messenger-esque iMessage, previously iMessage, has become Apple's smartphone-integrated answer to online messaging services like AOL Instant Messenger and Google Chat. The service is data based, allowing Wi-Fi connected iOS device users to communicate without racking up text fees. With OS X Mountain Lion, Apple expanded iMessage to Macs, and the operating system's upcoming 10.8.2 update will bring extended functionality like phone number support.
Monday's iMessage issues come on the heels of an iCloud email outage last week that affected 1.1 percent of the service's user base.
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I message sucks, it is never is reliable
I message sucks, it is never is reliable
Apple should've invested in Twitter before it got too popular.
I message sucks, it is never is reliable
I've been using it almost a year. worked great up until this morning.Message BETA on Mountain Lion will not send/receive pictures though.
iMessage has worked perfectly for me since it came out. It's working fine for me this morning as well.
I always thought iMessage worked fine ... until I was talking to my girlfriend one day and I asked her why she didn't response to one of my messages (not an important one, but that still required an answer). She had no idea what I was talking about, so I showed her my phone, which showed the message as being "delivered." Then she showed me her phone, and all the other messages where there, but not the one I asked her about. She never got it. Then she mentioned there were a couple times she messaged me, and I never responded ... I NEVER got those messages.
I'd say, on average, it happens maybe once or twice a month, and we message each other at least three or four times a day (depending on our schedules). Now if something like that happens, and I don't hear back after a reasonable amount of time I call and leave a voicemail.