AppleInsider Staff
Apple's content delivery and Maps networks suffered concentrated outages late Tuesday, as the company's system status page showed downtime for various iTunes related services and a brief, but complete shutdown of Apple Maps.
As seen above, Apple's system status webpage noted limited availability for "multiple" services including the iOS App Store, Mac App Store, Apple TV, iTunes Match, iTunes Store, Radio and iBooks about ten minutes after 7 p.m. Pacific. It took more than an hour to restore all services to normal operating capacity.
According to Apple, "some users" were affected by the store services downtime, though the company failed to provide an exact number.
More severe was the Maps outage, which occurred shortly before 8 p.m. and lasted about half an hour before a fix was implemented. Apple notes all users attempting to contact Apple Maps servers experienced problems as a result of the undisclosed issue.
Apple did not immediately provide an explanation for the downtime and it is unknown if the two incidents are related.
Apple customers most recently experienced significant server issues in October when iTunes and the iOS App Store went down four times during a one-week span. The last outage on Oct. 15 brought down iTunes, both App Stores, Apple TV and the Volume Purchase Program.
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23 Comments
Apple hiccups. Panic ensues.
Game Center was down for me for at least 90 minites????
ISIS did it...blew up the whole dam virtual world. /s
iMessage was having a lot of problems also
The Apple App Store is too often down. Apple should really pay much more attention to the availability of its service platform. Especially if it wants to target more business customers. One can say a lot of bad things about Google, but the Play Store operations are rock solid and reliable.
As owner of an app development company, I highly depend on the availability of the App Store. Last year it costed me 2000 Euro and a lot of goodwill when I failed to deliver an app to a customer because the App Store was down at the time of hand over.