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"&amp;lt;vc&amp;gt;&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Apple's iCloud service experienced an outage on Wednesday that affected some services, including the delivery of iMessages.&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nUsers began contacting &amp;lt;em&amp;gt;AppleInsider&amp;lt;/em&amp;gt; Wednesday afternoon to say that some of their iCloud accounts were having issues. Among the services affected were the iCloud website, including mail, as well as iMessages.\r\n\r\nApple's own &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/\"&amp;gt;system status&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; website for iCloud notes that \"some\" users are affected by the outage, which began at 11:42 Pacific. The site promised that \"normal service will be restored ASAP.\"\r\n\r\nOther reports on Wednesday indicated that the iTunes Store also experienced some downtime, while some developers were unable to access Apple's developer portals for iOS and OS X.\r\n\r\nThe free iCloud service and its paid predecessor, MobileMe, have a &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/09/30/mobileme_experiencing_outages_ahead_of_icloud_transition.html\"&amp;gt;history of outages&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; that have affected users over the years. Apple gave no indication just how many users were impacted by Wednesday's particular outage.\r\n\r\n&amp;lt;strong&amp;gt;Update:&amp;lt;/strong&amp;gt; All iCloud services have been restored as of 1 p.m. PST according to Apple's &amp;lt;a href=\"http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/\"&amp;gt;iCloud Status Page&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;.\r\n\r\n&amp;lt;div align=\"center\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=\"http://photos.appleinsider.com/12.06.20-iCloud.jpg\" alt=\"iCloud Status\" width=\"747\" height=\"518 border=\"0\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;span class=\"minor2\"&amp;gt;iCloud Status restored. | Source: Apple&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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