The entire Apple dev center is down. That makes it impossible to download the iOS or Mac SDKs, including the iOS 7 beta. It's also not possible to provision new devices or update expired certificates. The developer forums are down too, which is somewhat frustrating since that's the only place we can discuss the still-under-NDA iOS 7.<p>iTunes connect appears to be up.<p>Apologies for those who posted this earlier. The headline gets more interesting as the outage continues.
Something real, real bad happened down Apple way. The only explanation that passes the sniff test for me is a security breach. A big one. Playstation store big. I mean, it's a huge outage in the middle of the week. Nobody does that if something hasn't gone disastrously wrong. And iffy as Apple's web infrastructure historically has been, it's hard to imagine a system malfunction that they couldn't route around in some kind of reduced capacity in this amount of time.<p>So. Is Apple gonna drop trou and own up to what the hell happened, or are they gonna get the servers back up and pretend that we saw all this smoke and no fire?
I've had an active developer program account since 2008. While various tools have gone offline now and then, and there are planned shutdowns around the holidays and during keynotes, this incident seems unique.<p>Wonder what's going on over there. This outage makes the provisioning portal inaccessible. That could mean very real work disruptions, since no new code signing credentials can be made.
Craig Hockenberry: "Just talked to WWDR on the phone: no ETA."<p><a href="https://twitter.com/chockenberry/status/358315230742331393" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/chockenberry/status/358315230742331393</a>
Amusingly (or perhaps frustratingly) their status site is showing all-systems-go: <a href="http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/</a>
Interesting, it looks like the WebObjects application(s) has actually been undeployed.<p>I poked around the main developer.apple.com for a bit until I got here: <a href="https://developer.apple.com/programs/start/safari/enroll.php?t=cm" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/programs/start/safari/enroll.php...</a><p>Clicking the "Individual" button on the bottom throws up a WebObjects error: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/xcfZ5ip.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/xcfZ5ip.png</a> (Yes, that's probably the smallest I've ever made my Safari window. You're welcome, mobile readers)
Right in the middle or renewing the our account. I need to activate the new license and, since I can't, people can't download our app from the store. Talking about fail...
Apple has just updated the page stating that memberships due to expire today have been extended and apps will not be removed from the App Store. They have also apologized for it taking "longer than expected"
Is it still possible to provision devices through Xcode while it's down?<p>The message they've went with is very strange:<p>"This site is undergoing maintenance for an extended period today."<p>Normally they give a few weeks warning for maintenance.
I predict the entry of a new phrase into our lexicon<p>Bad antenna = "You're holding it wrong"<p>Outage = "Extended Maintenance"<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/14K9ogF.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/14K9ogF.png</a>
I hope it's something good. But, my guess is it won't be anything noticeable. Replacing that horrible Jive forum software would rock as it's awful.
the maintenance page has a new update just now saying this<p>We'll be back soon.
We apologize that maintenance is taking longer than expected.
If your program membership was set to expire during this period, it has been extended and your app will remain on the App Store. If you have any other concerns about your account, please contact us.
It's interesting I was trying to download xcode commandline tools for setting up my new mac, the website was down but <i></i>you can still download it in xcode download panel<i></i>. (assuming you already have xcode installed).
It's been down at least since yesterday afternoon:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Joe_Wegner/status/357956388833599488" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Joe_Wegner/status/357956388833599488</a>
The WWDC vids are in an app this year, not on iTunesU. Te an phones home to validate that you are a developer. It too is inaccessible now since dev center is down is down.