Month: July 2013
[Update]: Apple: Developer's Membership will not be effected because of downtime
On Friday, we reported that Apple's Developer's web site was offline for an extended period of time. Now AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has said:
"As an unusually long maintenance for Apple's developer portal continues, the company recently posted a message on the service's holding page saying developer memberships set to expire during the period will be extended."
The developer's portal went offline on Thursday and has not been available since.
07/21/13: Update - The extension period will be one week.
Unauthorized charger likely cause of women's electrical shock from iPhone
“A woman killed by an electric shock while using her iPhone may have been using a non-Apple-made battery charger at the time of her death, Chinese state media reported,” Jeremy Blum reports for The South China Morning Post.
“The victim, 23-year-old Ma Ailun, had been using what appeared to be an unauthorised iPhone 4 charger, CCTV reported on Tuesday,” Blum reports. “According to Xiang Ligang, a telecommunications expert interviewed by CCTV, the charger Ma had been using may have been a ‘knockoff’ – a fake. ‘Knockoff chargers sometimes cut corners,’ Xiang said. ‘The quality of the capacitor and circuit protector may not be good, and this may lead to the capacitor breaking down and sending 220 volts of electricity directly into the cell phone battery.’”
Blum reports, “Xiang said that normally, the electric current from an overloaded charger would overheat the phone’s casing, damaging the circuits inside and rendering the device unusable. In the case of Ma’s iPhone 4, however, authorities said the phone could still be started normally despite severe traces of burning on its exterior. The phone’s data cable, charger, and plug were all intact.”
Read more in the full article here.
Apple's Developer's web site is down for "an extended period today"
On Thursday, Apple brought down its developer's web site and posted the above message. Starting Friday morning, registered developers took to FaceBook and Twitter asking why the web site is still offline, more than 24 hours after it first went down.
One Twitter user even tweeted his frustration by saying "Pretty astonished that we're now beyond 24 hours of Apple iOS Dev Center maintenance downtime, haven't seen that before. #HugeInconvenience" Jonathan Ozeran wrote on Twitter Friday afternoon.
