Web Developers Are Happy Today To Hear the News of Apple Restores Website Outage

Can you imagine that Apple,the tech giant, had an outage with the their software developer's website?  On Saturday the portal which is essential for developers was back online after 23 days.

                                                                  Business Insider







Apple sent out an email to all registered developers, apologizing for the service outage.

The final restoration comes five days after Apple announced plans to have the portal at full capacity by the end of the week.

Developers now can check the status page via a link on the homepage to confirm that all functions essential for software development are back online.

According to the email sent to developers, to make up for the prolonged outage of some of the services, Apple will extend all memberships, which are usually for a year, by one month.

Apple’s software developer’s website, which also hosts its iOS and OS X beta downloads, went down on July 18 and a few days after, the company acknowledged that there had been a security breach.

No sensitive personal information was accessed, Apple said at the time, but it could not rule out that the intruders had gained access to developers’ names and mailing and email addresses.

The outage caused outrage in the developer community, for many of them were unable to enable new devices to run pre-release versions of Apple's software or test out new apps.

The downtime also came as Apple pushed developers to test and create software for upcoming versions of iOS and Mac OS X, both of which are expected this fall.

Apple began to bring back many key services on July 26, after more than a week of downtime. Essential services for software development on iOS, Mac, and Safari platform, were given the priority in restoration, alongside downloads for upcoming versions of Apple's desktop and mobile software.

Apple has yet to reveal the identity of those responsible for the self-imposed downtime, but one researcher claimed responsibility shortly after the outage began in July, saying that it was just a test for security instead of an intended crime.
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