Trying to download a new app on my iPad few minutes ago, I saw a weird problem: as soon as I click download, the app icon appears on the home, but in a few seconds it fades out; no error messages, nothing at all. Trying again Ana again: same issue; restarting the iPad, logging out and back in: no help.
The last thing to do is verify if it’s my problem only; the best way to do this is thanks to twitter, which confirms it is a general issues: every minute tens of new tweets with the hash tag #appstore pop out to my timeline. Good, at least it is not my problem!
Well, good? Not sure about this: looking at the tweets, looks like the problem is not on iPads only. No, there are users complaining about iPad, iPhone and even Mac. Wow: a simple problem on a “website” puts everything down? It’s incredible how much dependent on a single source all these devices are. In fact, it is not the only thing we are so dependent on: just few days ago my gf had her gmail disabled for a few hours and she was desperate (don’t want to imagine if it’d happen to me).
But who cares? The AppStore seems to be back online while I am writing this; we are safe. At least till the next outage.