Apple service outages are at unacceptable stage

The variety of Apple service outages recently appears to have risen to the purpose the place they’ve grow to be nearly routine.

This isn’t nice for any tech large, however when the ecosystem is such an enormous a part of the attraction of Apple merchandise, it turns into a far larger deal …

Apple outages this yr

Let’s look simply at Apple service outages and points within the four-and-a-bit months of the yr so far – and these are simply the examples discovered by a fast search of our personal website, which solely studies the extra widespread issues:

Or, uh, at the moment

Or simply take a snapshot on DownDetector for the previous 24 hours:

Apple additionally doesn’t like admitting issues

That is made worse by Apple’s reluctance to confess that it’s experiencing issues.

I can’t rely the variety of instances I see tweets about Apple service outages, affirm them on DownDetector, after which test Apple’s system standing web page to see nothing however inexperienced lights.

This isn’t simply deceptive, it actively causes hassles for Apple’s buyer, as a result of if we’re experiencing an issue, and Apple says the whole lot is okay on its finish, we’re prone to find yourself losing time – and getting irritating – attempting to troubleshoot a non-existent drawback on our finish.

I don’t count on 100% uptime, however I count on higher than this

Now, I get it. There’s no such factor as 100% dependable tech, and these items will occur. I’m not anticipating Apple providers to have 100% uptime.

I additionally settle for that a few of these points are First World Issues. No person goes to die if they’ve to shut an unresponsive Climate app and go test a web site as a substitute.

However an enormous a part of Apple’s advertising and marketing pitch is the advantages of the ecosystem, and Companies are an more and more essential a part of Apple’s enterprise. Companies are the solely a part of Apple’s enterprise to have loved an unbroken development file for the previous 5 years, and brings in additional income than every of Mac, iPad, and wearables.

So once they aren’t dependable, that’s no small matter. And, to me at the least, Apple providers appear to be falling a good distance in need of delivering the extent of robustness and contingency planning than I’d count on.

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