He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile () of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff-the only time he has entered the competition. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world () by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. The stock closed down 2 percent at $122.24 on March 11.Ĭhris J. Revenue from Apple services, which includes everything from iTunes and the App Store to licensing, amounted to almost $4.8 billion in its fiscal first quarter, or more than 6 percent of overall sales. They are a key revenue generator for the company, which takes a cut of app downloads and paid content, including music and videos. The App Store and iTunes form the centerpiece of Apple’s mobile user experience.
Pacific time to show that the disrupted services, including the Mac App Store and iBooks, were functioning normally.
Privately, according to the Appleinsider site, Apple representatives told developers that the problem would shortly be resolved, though that did not turn out to be the case.Īpple updated its status page at 2:04 p.m. We’re working to make all of the services available to customers as soon as possible, and we thank everyone for their patience.”ĭespite the fact that problems started early Wednesday morning, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company did not acknowledge the issue publicly for several hours. “The cause was an internal DNS error at Apple. “We apologize to our customers experiencing problems with iTunes and other services this morning,” Apple said in a corporate statement to CNBC. According to Apple’s system status dashboard, technical issues also brought down its iCloud mail and account web services at the same time, according to. Users were unable to buy apps or other content, and in some cases they were are prevented from downloading updates and even opening already-purchased apps. The outage impacted sales on the iTunes Store, iBooks Store, App Store, and Mac App Store. Pacific time on Wednesday.Īpple issued a rare public apology to customers for the long service interruption and blamed it on an “internal DNS error.” Less than 48 hours after the company triumphed with its launch of Apple Watch and two new MacBook notebook PCs on Monday, its all-important Web storefronts were knocked offline for about 12 hours, beginning at 2 a.m.
Apple has had its ups and its downs this week.
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