{"id":84101,"date":"2011-10-14T22:58:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T22:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2011\/10\/14\/problems-plague-apple-icloud-ios-launch\/"},"modified":"2011-10-14T22:58:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T22:58:14","slug":"problems-plague-apple-icloud-ios-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2011\/10\/14\/problems-plague-apple-icloud-ios-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems plague Apple iCloud, iOS launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple Inc rolled out its new iCloud service and latest mobile software to a chorus of user complaints this week, after glitches led to email access problems and long delays in installation.<\/p>\n

Some users reported losing their email access as Apple formally launched iCloud, an online communications, media storage and backup service, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s new operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch — iOS 5 — also annoyed many users who encountered hours-long delays in downloading and installation. <\/p>\n

Investors have high hopes for iCloud, which replaces MobileMe, a collection of Web-based products that have failed to impress critics or generate substantial revenues for accompany that has had success in most other ventures over the past decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt failed in a very nasty way in that mail sometimes vanished, sometimes appeared then vanished, and often there was a user andor password-incorrect message plus some rather obscure additional error messages,\u201d said David Farber, a professor of engineering and public policy with Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe behaviour suggests program problems,\u201d added Farber, a well-known computer scientist.
\nBut the iCloud problems are especially embarrassing for Apple, as the company introduced the new online service with much fanfare in June at its annual developer forum.<\/p>\n

Co-founder Steve Jobs, who died last Wednesday, said \u201cit just works\u201d when he introduced the service in June. The software is key to the new iPhone 4S, which will be launched on Friday in seven countries.<\/p>\n

The problems also come as rival Research in Motion deals with an international outage of its email and messaging services.
\n\u201cSome users were experiencing intermittent authentication errors when trying to use mail,\u201d Apple said in a status update on its webpage for iCloud support. \u201cNormal service has been restored. We apologise for any inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other problems Apple reported as having resolved included: intermittent slowness when signing in to iCloud, users unable to back up their data, and delays receiving verification emails from Apple.<\/p>\n

Apple spokespersons did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
\nUsers took to Twitter to complain about the problems during the roll-out.<\/p>\n

\u201ciCloud would be great if the email would freaking recognize my password,\u201d wrote Leanna Lofte, or \u201c@llofte\u201d, on Twitter.
\n\u201cApple Mail\u2019s still offline, everything\u2019s out of sync here between my devices, and what a mess,\u201d Matt Peckham, or \u201c@mattpeckham\u201d, wrote on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Apple Inc rolled out its new iCloud service and latest mobile software to a chorus of user complaints this week, after glitches led to email access problems and long delays in installation. Some users reported losing their email access as Apple formally launched iCloud, an online communications, media storage and backup service, on Wednesday. Apple\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}