Discussion

xutopia: For those wondering why this is a big deal it means that every developers attempting to run a development version of an iPhone, iPad or MacOS app cannot run their apps right now.This is worse than Github being down and Apple Developers who pay 99$ a year for the privilege of writing software on this ecosystem aren't event getting a status page update: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/

andyvanosdale: It's definitely not worse than GitHub being down...

Orellius: And I was surprised why nothing worked, now I know. read comments here system is down hard.

erkanerol: Why is all green in the status page? Really really annoying.

colinbartlett: The Apple status pages (both of them) are some of the worst of the big league offenders, perhaps second only to Microsoft.Full disclosure, I operate a product that compares official outage acknowledgment to actual outage impact times. (Which I won't mention to avoid self-promotion.)For this specific incident, I saw the alert come across my Slack at 19:02 UTC. We received over 100 reports of this outage before the official acknowledgement was posted by Apple on their status page at 21:37 UTC.Shortly after their acknowledgment, the reports fizzled out and then Apple marked the incident as resolved about 20 minute later.The whole outage lasted about 4 hours from first report to last and wasn't acknowledged by Apple until 3.5 hours into it.

_heimdall: Depends on your priorities. Many developers don't pay for github access, and no one pays github 15-30% of gross sales.

Brian_K_White: And a lot more people use github for something at all and don't use Apple for anything at all.The entire Apple universe is smaller than the world or even just the github part of the world, and the Apple developer universe is a tiny fraction of even just the Apple universe.