Apple services are in the midst of a service outage today. The outage started at 5:30 EDT and affected iTunes, App Store, iBooks Store, and even iCloud accounts. What was initially thought to be a temporary outage turned into an extended outage, and it seems a DNS error is to blame. Apple issued an apology and said they are working on the issue.
Apple's status page initially reflected all systems were good, but that quickly changed. Let's hope we're up and running again soon.
"We apologize to our customers experiencing problems with iTunes and other services this morning. The cause was an internal DNS error at Apple. We're working to make all of the services available to customers as soon as possible, and we thank everyone for their patience," Apple said in a statement to CNBC.
Apple's status page initially reflected all systems were good, but that quickly changed. Let's hope we're up and running again soon.