AppleInsider Staff
Apple's iMessage and FaceTime services saw their second outage this week on Friday, as both services were unavailable to "some users," the company disclosed.
The online services provided by Apple can be tracked through the company's System Status page, which provides real-time updates on its stores, iCloud, and other features such as iMessage. As of Friday morning, iMessage and FaceTime were experiencing issues for over an hour.
The downtime for some users marks the second time this week that Apple's services have seen issues. Downtime reached more than five hours when both FaceTime and iMessage became unavailable on Tuesday.
As with the outage earlier this week, other services appear to be unaffected, as features like Photo Stream and digital stores like the App Store remain available.
Apple has seen a number of sporadic iCloud service outages in recent weeks. The issues are typically resolved within one to two hours.
Update: Apple fixed the issue as of 6:07 p.m. Pacific. The outage lasted for a little over one hour.
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What are the chances of them taking down that Status Page? Even though one cannot go back to far in time, to get an overview of their [I]uptime[/I], but still.
I tried to send an iMessage from my iPhone and it got stuck at "Sending". I checked the Service Status website and no issues! Tried again 5 minutes later and it worked. That was like 45 minutes ago. Do you guys have these articles typed and ready to go just in case?!
Fire Tim Cook! This would have never happened if he hadn't been running Apple so poorly these last few years!
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Once they get a few more data centers online and properly redundant and load balanced, this type of outage will become a lot less likely. They are way behind in datacenter buildout compared to the rapid increase in their user base.