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  • Apple's "dumb terminal" design wreaks havoc when the matrix went down today!

    From Marion@marion@facts.com to misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Jun 25 05:07:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    One of the problems with Apple's "dumb terminal" design of millions of
    users logging into Apple servers at any given microsecond, is that when the network to the matrix goes down, everything stops working.

    Which happened today.
    <https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/icloud-down-live-updates-outage-6-24-25>

    Verbatim:
    "Apple's iCloud service suffered an outage today which appeared to affect
    a number of other Apple services as well. A number of users flocked to Down Detector to report issues with iCloud.

    The outage prevented people from accessing services connected to iCloud
    like Photos and iMessage such that they couldn't sync or download.

    The problems began around 11:30 a.m. Pacific/2:30 p.m. Eastern.

    A quick glance at the Apple Status page revealed a mix of products went
    down, including iCloud Web Apps, Find My, Photos, and more.

    While reports slowed down from an initial peak of around 900 at 12:30 p.m. Pacific, it was a steady decline. And the Apple status page didn't
    officially return to normal until around 4:15 p.m. Pacific.

    The outage lasted for just over 5 hours."

    Let's see how the Apple trolls claim that the iOS device is not a dumb
    terminal in light of what happened today - which is fact they can't deny.
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  • From Alan@nuh-uh@nope.com to misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.advocacy on Wed Jun 25 09:01:11 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.system

    On 2025-06-24 22:07, Marion wrote:
    One of the problems with Apple's "dumb terminal" design of millions of
    users logging into Apple servers at any given microsecond, is that when the network to the matrix goes down, everything stops working.

    Which happened today.
    <https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/icloud-down-live-updates-outage-6-24-25>

    Verbatim:
    "Apple's iCloud service suffered an outage today which appeared to affect
    a number of other Apple services as well. A number of users flocked to Down Detector to report issues with iCloud.

    The outage prevented people from accessing services connected to iCloud
    like Photos and iMessage such that they couldn't sync or download.

    The problems began around 11:30 a.m. Pacific/2:30 p.m. Eastern.

    A quick glance at the Apple Status page revealed a mix of products went
    down, including iCloud Web Apps, Find My, Photos, and more.

    While reports slowed down from an initial peak of around 900 at 12:30 p.m. Pacific, it was a steady decline. And the Apple status page didn't
    officially return to normal until around 4:15 p.m. Pacific.

    The outage lasted for just over 5 hours."

    Let's see how the Apple trolls claim that the iOS device is not a dumb terminal in light of what happened today - which is fact they can't deny.

    I noticed absolutely no problems using my iPhone during the outage.

    Sorry (not sorry).
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