Apple’s new status page

Posted on Thursday, December 13th, 2012 at 1:19 pm. PT

A new page from Apple that updates users on the status of its services, stores and iCloud.

Canucker

Excellent – and ever more important as more services rely on the cloud. Shouldn’t be long before someone condenses this into an app and/or desktop widget….
- matthewmaurice
  
  Oh, I’m pretty sure Eddie Cue has this in a dashboard he has up all the time.
  - Canucker
    
    Probably linked via a USB cable to his scrotum! Somebody gonna pay for that outage!
Scott Clitheroe

Stats don’t lie. Since this reporting tool went live, 2 out of 3 days have had outages to one or more services. Good job Apple.
matthewmaurice

Are we looking at Eddie Cue’s first act as Services Chief?
http://www.seodenver.com Zack Katz

Nice: the status is available via a JSON API: http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/data/system_status_en_US.js

It also works with different countries: http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/data/system_status_fr_FR.js – France http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/data/system_status_de_DE.js – Germany
http://www.seodenver.com Zack Katz

I created https://twitter.com/iOutage , which will send tweets within 5 minutes of an outage.