Comment by totalZero
4 years ago
Normally I'm of a similar opinion to yours...but in this case I'm not.
What happens if you're trading securities, or if you have an imminent deadline? Apple sells a fail-closed security feature, without investing the resources necessary to keep it as near to 100% serviceable as possible, and never really discusses it with the user. When it hangs, most users don't even know why.
WTF!
Seems like they could partner with Akamai (or one of its competitors) to make the server-side component of this feature more robust.
If they are going to sell the MBP as a premium professional product, then they must recognize that it will sometimes serve as the linchpin of users' mission-critical activities.
Take a billion dollars out of the stock buyback, invest it in the product instead, and make this problem go away.
Apple’s entire CDN collapsed on Big Sur launch day, which for years was and probably still is backed by Akamai. The OCSP endpoint was just one of many that was impacted. Seems like that’s exactly what you suggest they should have done to make this more robust. The endpoint failed for the first time in a decade this week. That’s better uptime than any stock exchange you’re trading securities on.