Apple Development Certificate Server Outage Affects iOS and macOS App Development
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Summary
Apple's development certificate server appears to be experiencing an outage, preventing developers from running development versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS apps. The issue is described as worse than GitHub being down, and developers paying $99/year for Apple Developer accounts are frustrated by the lack of status page updates. The article includes developer complaints about auto-renewal issues and the broader impact on the Apple development ecosystem.
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This is worse than Github being down and Apple Developers who pay 99$ a year for the privilege of writing software on this ecosystem aren't event getting a status page update.
I had signed up for an Apple Developer account for 'sign in with apple'. I had auto-renew on. For the last month or so I was getting increasingly frustrated.
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