Thursday, March 12, 2015

Apple’s cloud services back – what happened? – 99mac

Now the Apple’s digital services again after disruption that lasted 11 hours. Apple states that the cause was internal technical problems.

On Wednesday hit Apple’s cloud services by major disruptions that made it impossible to download apps or other material.

Now reported all services again be in operation, for problems that lasted almost 11 hours. Apple has made a statement to the American television channel CNBC

“We apologize to our customers who have experienced problems With iTunes and other services this morning. The cause was an internal DNS issues at Apple. We are working to make all services available to customers as soon as possible, and we thank everyone for their patience. “

Itunes and related services is a major source of revenue for Apple and generated according to the latest quarterly report $ 4.8 billion in revenue. This includes sales from company all digital stores, as well as income from AppleCare and Apple Pay. This corresponds to approximately 41 billion Swedish kronor.

According to the analyst Horace Dediu at Asymco purchased iOS apps for 500 million dollars during the first week of January 2015. Based on it, the operating disruptions have cost Apple nearly $ 33 million alone in case of no-app sales.

Operational problems seem to have covered more services than just iTunes and the App Store. According to a report on Twitter was also Apple’s payment systems in the physical stores hit, forcing staff to make payments to older paper-based reader.

The total cost of disruption why is thus probably much higher. For it will, of course, frustration and dissatisfaction from all Apple customers who could not access their music in iCloud or update their apps.

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