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From: Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: Apple's "dumb terminal" design wreaks havoc when the matrix went
 down today!
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 17:22:57 -0400
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On 6/25/2025 1:07 AM, Marion wrote:
> One of the problems with Apple's "dumb terminal" design of millions of
> users logging into Apple servers at any given microsecond, is that when the
> network to the matrix goes down, everything stops working.
> 
> Which happened today.
>   <https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/icloud-down-live-updates-outage-6-24-25>
> 
> Verbatim:
>   "Apple's iCloud service suffered an outage today which appeared to affect
> a number of other Apple services as well. A number of users flocked to Down
> Detector to report issues with iCloud.
> 
> The outage prevented people from accessing services connected to iCloud
> like Photos and iMessage such that they couldn't sync or download.
> 
> The problems began around 11:30 a.m. Pacific/2:30 p.m. Eastern.
> 
> A quick glance at the Apple Status page revealed a mix of products went
> down, including iCloud Web Apps, Find My, Photos, and more.
> 
> While reports slowed down from an initial peak of around 900 at 12:30 p.m.
> Pacific, it was a steady decline. And the Apple status page didn't
> officially return to normal until around 4:15 p.m. Pacific.
> 
> The outage lasted for just over 5 hours."
> 
> Let's see how the Apple trolls claim that the iOS device is not a dumb
> terminal in light of what happened today - which is fact they can't deny.

I can not have any internet connection while flying an airplane and 
ForeFlight works just fine. All it needs in in the phone. With internet 
I can read a book, watch a movie, play a game, get iMessage traffic, and 
make calls. I don't need Apple's services to use my many Google and MS 
Office apps. Or check Facebook and Instagram either. In fact I hardly 
need iCloud at all.

If Google goes down Android phones are similarly affected!