Apple Music, iTunes Store, App Store hit by very brief outage on July 31

A number of Apple Music, App Store, and iTunes users encountered issues with the online services on July 31, problems Apple was aware of and rectified quickly.Posts to social media including Twitter indicate there were issues with three major Apple services, including iTunes, Apple Music, and the App Store. Tweets have been posted saying that there were problems listening to music and downloading apps.Checks of DownDetector by iMore indicated issues with all three services started on Saturday afternoon at around 1 pm eastern time. It also appeared the three services went down at around the same time, though it is unclear how many people were actually affected. Read more...