Developers Lose Millions, Users Lose Tempers During Outage At Apple's iTunes, App Store
Editor's UPDATE @ 2:51 p.m.
CUPERTINO (CBS/AP) -- Apple restored service to its iTunes and app stores late Wednesday afternoon, but not before users' tempers flared and developers freaked out over lost revenue.
The rare outage began Wednesday morning and lasted more than 5 hours and affected the iTunes store, iBooks Store Mac App store and App store services.
whilqt we're freaking out bout apple store being down @AppStore is just casually promoting games like bitch wut: pic.twitter.com/GnMaDC2gEe
— ☾ (@stilesbuterax) March 11, 2015
Revenue losses were estimated at $1.14 million per hour, but that number could be inflated because the outage did not affect all users geographically.
#Apple #itunesdown @Scott_ Holliday #quote in @TODAYonline pic.twitter.com/3MmuxOYMJo http://t.co/zfyWfe5AzQ #TK_quotes
— Trooclick (@Trooclick) March 11, 2015
Users were unable to buy iPhone apps or make in-app buys with their own software. Many took to social media to vent their frustration.
The outage was blamed on a Domain Name System (DNS) issue, according to Mashable.