Jeff Owens.com» Apple Archives – Jeff Owens.com http://blog.jeff-owens.com Where Ignorance Is Not Bliss Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:30:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 iCloud iFail http://blog.jeff-owens.com/technology/icloud-ifail/ http://blog.jeff-owens.com/technology/icloud-ifail/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:19:59 +0000 Jeff Owens http://blog.jeff-owens.com/?p=233 iCloudYesterday Apple released iOS 5.0 and iCloud into the wild. Big, software releases of this nature are bound to have some issues, as millions of users upgrade their existing accounts that include email, contacts, and calendars.

Today, my iCloud email is down. I have no email access from the website www.icloud.com, or from computers and iOS devices. The annoying thing is that in my Mail app, it keeps pestering me to enter my password for iCloud. Once I do, it rejects it and asks again. It kind of reminds me of the Seinfeld skit with Kramer acting as Movie Phone.

Hello, and Welcome to Movie Phone. If you know the name of the movie you’d like to see, press one.

PAUSE

Using your touchtone keypad, please enter the first three letters of the movie title now.

PAUSE

You’ve selected, Agent Zero? If that’s correct, press one.

PAUSE

You’ve selected, Brown Eyed Girl? If this is correct, press one.

PAUSE

Why don’t you just tell me the name of the movie you selected.

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iPad

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