Apple iCloud Has Service Issues, Again

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Thomas Claburn.

Apple’s iCloud experienced technical problems for several hours early Tuesday morning, although the extent of the outage remains unclear due to lack of information from Apple.
Some of the issues appear to have been resolved, but Apple’s Game Center showed problems with user sign-ins reoccurring at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time, after issues earlier in the morning had been resolved.

Although Apple improved its Services, Stores and iCloud status page late last year, the company still does not publish much detail about the cause of service outages or the number of affected customers…

"Users might have incorrectly received an authentication error when attempting to use iCloud," Apple says on its status page. "Setting up a new iCloud account from an eligible device may have been temporarily unavailable." The company says that between 4:20 a.m. and 8:25 a.m. Pacific time, "Some users [were] affected." It also acknowledges that iTunes Store, Apple ID and Game Center were affected…

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