Both the App Store and iTunes is currently experiencing a widespread performance issue resulting in missing content from the categories sections and errors when downloading new content.
Apple’s official status page currently has no mention of the issue aside from a brief Apple Pay support problem earlier today.
Apple’s services last suffered a widespread outage just two weeks ago which prompted an apology on behalf of the company.
Update 11:36 EST: While the outage was very much widespread, the issues seem to be resolved. Force quitting the App Store or iTunes app should result in seeing content again if the fix isn’t automatic.
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I thought it was due to 8.3.1
It was down to apply an update. Stores look much cleaner now.
At least, that’s my completely uneducated guess. I may be absolutely wrong.
It seems pretty clear that Apple servers are under attack by competitors…
All of a sudden their data centers became defective and even redundancy isn’t helping them ?
I doubt that…
Something else is going on. It’s not just some hardware or software issue on the servers causing all of this.. it just can’t be. Because if Apple didn’t design their system with no less than double or triple redundancy then they would be lazy and stupid… and I don’t think that’s the case here.
Who is causing this and why is the real question. Well the why is obvious to damage Apple and make customers switch to other brands then claiming on forums and facebook and such that Apple service is not top-notch anymore…
That is an illegal strategy that some competitors would surely use.
Wow lol. I joked to myself before scrolling down to the comments that someone would write something like this. And behold — trollery at its finest lol
I somehow missed the 8.3 public beta 2 update yesterday, doing this now…seems like, whenever there is a new OS release, even if it’s small, they end up with issues within 72 hours. Apple keeps selling more devices and I don’t know how they can stay on top of all the network traffic they must get. That being said:
The problem I have with this is that Apple is way too slow at showing issues…it makes Apple’s System Status page completely useless…I went there this morning to see if problem was me, my internet, or apple, apple had all green lights, but, turns out, apple was the one having problems. They need to either give us accurate information or drop the page altogether.