Why is the Apple Mac Developer portal down, and for how long?

Yes, I joined this forum after the outage. I have not needed the forum before and was looking for any information on what the **** happened and this was where I found it. Because I wasn't hearing it from Apple.

I am losing a lot of sales and opportunity from this outage. I have a geographically dispersed sales force and we rely on the ability to quickly add new devices to provisioning profiles for ad-hoc meetings. I have had to cancel and reschedule several meetings now due to this outage.

I have a hard time understanding this. It's as if there was one server in a closet somewhere with and a hard drive died without a backup. I'd expect this lack of preparation and response from a small and inexperienced company. Of course, companies get hacked all the time and catastrophes do occur. That's why there is a large amount of information, resources, and talent at most Fortune500 companies dedicated to emergency response and failsafes for this sort of occurence.

It's been a week. I've received two emails that are completely generic and available to the public. Nothing addressing my specific company, what has happened, or what will happen.

It's kind of hard to believe. And every day - it's quantifiably hurting my business.

I'm being mean, but the WWDC video has them bragging at the number of apps available for iOS.

Maybe Apple wanted to prune a few.

How much is Samsung paying you?.

stuartsoft wrote:

can you post a link? what's the video titled?

TattooedMac wrote:

The YouTube video ios back up and very interesting. See if you can see your name there . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVzTjTplLr0

Actually, one of my sources at Apple very high up said that they were shut down do to a National Security issue. He said that the IT director came and told him to take the website offline Immediately. A few hours later a geeky Korean group with agents badges all speaking Korean showed up and commandeered the server rooms both at Cupertino and later he found out at the backup complex overseas in Bengali. One of the engineers who was raised in Korea as an an Army Brat understood what they were saying and heard them laughing because as they put it Mamas Sung would be very generous. Not that it's relevant but he said he heard them bragging that this assignment was as good as the one they had at the Burj. . I don't know people but I am thinking Apple and developers have been had.

I have been frustrated programming a poker game.... And this board is very entertaining.

First off, if you cannot spell NATIONAL correctly...in National_Security_Risk it kind of loses a little credibility.

However, we should try and match sources.

I heard Snowden took a lithium battery off his iPad and hijacked a 787, and was able to power the plane and escape.

And while in midair he accessed the developer forum, and that is the reason for the extended shutdown.

People Mozart specializes in Disinformation. His role is to muddy the waters when the truth comes out. Stay away from him and pray that his kind of goose steppers don't come and kick your door down. Shame on you Mozart.

I know most are Developers here and wouldnt fall to Phishing, they are out there pounding people and its going to be the people that sign up and pay $99 to drink CoolAid and be the Peacock of his group, because he has iOS7, but just be wary is all im saying.

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/07/25/apple-developer-center-outage-sparks-new-rou nd-of-phishing-attacks/

But we are smarter than them and dont fall for this crap, do we ?? Haha

Dont be over zealous in clicking that link.

My App has been passed review last night, so I set Availability Date to past date to appear on the AppStore 6 hours ago. But it is still not accessible("The item you requested is not available at this time").

I have published more than 50 apps, and all of them had released with the same procedure, and be visible within 3 hours(Sometimes in a hour).

Is it regarding Developer Portal down? Anyone knows?

Hey guys!

Imagine this:

I bought a brand new iPhone 5;

I have installed iOS 7 beta 3 on it from the image I have downloaded two weekes ago;

Suddenly got the message: "this iPhone is not registered with any Developer account" on it.

And then it hit me. I forgot to add the device to my dev account.

Now I am stuck refreshing this https://developer.apple.com/support/system-status/

Cheers! 🙂

Apple's developer portal is for developers. If you can't test on your new iPhone5, you can continue to do development on the simulator or any of your other devices. I don't know why you would want to develop on an iPhone5 anyway. An iPod Touch would be cheaper. Surely you aren't suggesting you installed the beta on your personal device? Why would anyone do that? Those things are expensive.

etresoft wrote:

Surely you aren't suggesting you installed the beta on your personal device? Why would anyone do that? Those things are expensive.

IMO, exactly for that reason. Small devs cannot affford to have multiple iPhones/iPods lying around, and anyway, using the beta in every day use, is the only way of really testing it and reporting issues.

Just my opinion.

I'm going to assume you like playing Russian Roulette 'cause that's what you're doing. 😟

I learned with iOS 5 that installing beta software on a personal iPhone is a bad idea. Apple tends to have many many bugs in it's pre-release software and new features usually don't work properly. And heaven forbid, if your phone needs to be restored while Apple's services are down, you're going to be in a world of pain trying to fix your device.

Beta testing OS software on a personal device is a bad idea. Stick with Xcode beta if you want a safe solution, or buy another device for testing.

National, you are full of it....

For the Government to shut down Apple's Developer portal you would have to see signs of their involvement. Including, "Undisclosed periods of down time","No reasonable explanation as to why its down"

and

the most typical one would be what they pulled in Bengazi, blame the whole outage on a Video that was released three months ago.