{"id":747880,"date":"2013-04-23T12:56:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=633577"},"modified":"2013-04-23T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:56:35","slug":"apples-online-services-struggles-continue-with-gamecenter-icloud-itunes-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747880","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s online services struggles continue with GameCenter, iCloud, iTunes outage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stop me if you’ve heard this before<\/a>: Apple’s cloud-based services are experiencing some issues. On Tuesday morning, some users woke up to find they couldn’t access GameCenter, iTunes, iCloud or create a new Apple ID account. As of this writing, only GameCenter and Apple ID are continuing to experience issues; the rest appear to have been fixed, according to Apple’s systems status dashboard:<\/p>

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The outage began just after 4 a.m. PT on Tuesday. Apple is only saying that “some users” were affected, but it’s not clear how many people that actually means. I live in the northeast and I didn’t experience a total outage of services, but downloading apps from the iTunes Store this morning took about four minutes longer than usual — which is to say, they usually take about 15 seconds to download. 9to5Mac gathered tweets<\/a> from users in various countries who seem to have experienced some problems.<\/p>

This particular outage is the second multi-hour problem Apple’s online services have experienced in the last two weeks. Earlier this month iMessage, a far more regularly used and popular service than GameCenter,\u00a0suffered a five-hour outage<\/a>.<\/p>

Update:<\/strong> Apple’s system status dashboard<\/a> shows that as of 10:28 a.m. PT all services are back online.<\/p>
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