I cannot access the Mac Developer resources this morning.
With a company as advannced as Apple, I would expect them to be able to roll out web updates
seamlessly.
I don't like being out in the cold.
I want to download the Mavericks Beta.
Notice in the email they still say "we expect to have the developer website up again soon."
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya
Incontheivable, really.
Translations:
>'Apple Developer Website Update'
See how we didn't admit to a problem there? We wanted to title it "...Website Outage Update", but the legal team laughed.
> an intruder attempted
An intern left a laptop on a bus...
>In the spirit of transparency
Our legal team told us we have to say this...
>we have not been able to rule out the possibility that
It's bad....really, really bad - be afraid.
>we’re completely overhauling
No idea on where this will go, so we felt it was best to paint our efforts with a broad brush and ourselves as heros.
>we expect to have the developer website up again soon
No one working on the issue has a clue, so please be childlike and trust us on this one.
>We apologize for the
Mea Culpa - we're falling on our sword for you guys/gals....really. Our legal team told us to say that too.
Well, Well, at last we get at least some information. Between my observation and the current time...
I tried the link to the new discussion, but I am not authorized to read that thread, curious.
Fourteen thousand three hundred sixty-five views before any real information appeared.
Just to let you know, they are still there, BUT not for download by anyone 😟
But honestly, it has me perplexed as to why in the ****, people always leave things to the last minute. I got the email telling me of my impending License/Subscription or what ever Apple want to call it was expiring 4 weeks before it was due. So what did i do, instead of waiting until the last day, i paid up , my money, and guess what ?? My Dev License ran out or would of gone south today, so me paying up way ahead of time, i had nothing to worry about in the next 389 days 🙂 apart from the site going down, but as i said in a previous post, i have all the Documentation i need, and StackOverFlow for answers, because all people want to do in this Developer Forum, is complain about Apple and their site being down.
Im still writing my first App Happily 🙂🙂
See... I sent the email about an hour ago informing Apple that the portal was down and now they responded.
Everyone should be thanking me for sending the email to alert them of the problem.
Had i NOT sent that email, they may have never known......
>Just to let you know, they are still there, BUT not for download by anyone
Apple only stated they would still be _in_ the store...they never promised anything more.
So you waited four days to 'help'...?
I swear I think 90% of people who sign up for the developer license never develop anything... except negative posts.
When people leave negative comments on your app, now you know why.
Crticism and negativity abound.
When an anonymity is present, there are very few truly postive altruistic people in the world.
TattooedMac wrote:
But honestly, it has me perplexed as to why in the ****, people always leave things to the last minute.
Agreed. Apple sends notices well ahead of time. Even renewing 2 weeks before expiration is cutting it close, esp. if you reside outside the US. No one should wait to re-up...
douglas_goodall wrote:
I tried the link to the new discussion, but I am not authorized to read that thread, curious.
Nothing curious about that. This site has many times the amount of traffic as the developer site.
mozartbrain wrote:
I swear I think 90% of people who sign up for the developer license never develop anything... except negative posts.
When people leave negative comments on your app, now you know why.
Crticism and negativity abound.
When an anonymity is present, there are very few truly postive altruistic people in the world.
mozartbrain? More like einstein...
TattooedMac wrote:
Just to let you know, they are still there, BUT not for download by anyone 😟
But honestly, it has me perplexed as to why in the ****, people always leave things to the last minute.
...
Im still writing my first App Happily 🙂🙂
I've learned my lesson. Next year I won't make the same mistake.
I too have been coding in the meantime 🙂
"Problem is, if it was a scheduled upgrade with associated down time, they would have issued a notice the dev community ahead of time."
True. It might have been nice if they said something a bit earlier about a security breach. Rebuilding a db, as large as theirs is not a small task. One wonders why they have to overhaul everything.
Of course I can help be a little skeptical and suggest that claiming the dog ate one's homework is a classic evasion. 😉
It's all CYA at this point.
Why is the Apple Mac Developer portal down, and for how long?
