Apple's OS X App Store downloads knackered by expired security cert

Apple has banned devs for reporting negative facts in public before. Good luck to Paul Haddad.

This is why the....

whole certificate concept is flawed.

IMHO when you buy something, it should be yours FOREVER no matter what that item may be,

NOT "disabled" by the whims of an inattentive "administrator" who forgot the renew a certificate!

This is the same for any and all DRM schemes. If they take the server down, do your rights expire?

Not LEGALLY.........if you paid for something, you own it.

Calendar, Events, Alarms, Alerts, Notifications

Isn't there an app for that?

haha

That's nothing. One cert expired? Pfft. I remember what was it 2004 perhaps a big CA expired. News was coming for years this cert was going to expire. I was working at a company with nextel as one of our clients. They had outsourced much (all? I don't know) IT to IBM global services. This cert expires and from what was explained to me is virtually every single cert at nextel was hit as a result. All certs went bad globally at the same time. It was pretty amusing. I don't remember how long it took them to recover.

Resources

"But you'd have thought a company with the vast resources of Apple could assign someone to keep an eye on such things."

They have millions of unpaid resources to do their work for them. The fanbois will notify Apple that something is not working. Why pay for something that you get for free - it helps improve the company bottom line.

I keep getting "invalid security certificate" warnings when I come to The Register, and most of the images refuse to download. Pot Kettle?

Billion dollar company

And noone's monitoring expiry dates.

Abysmal

No comment

"Apple has no comment at time of publication."

At least somebody hasn't missed the perfect opportunity to keep the mouth shut. A rare occurrence these days. Sadly, bound to change quickly, as it usually does.

Cheers!

I'm sure Steve Jobs put an entry in his diary.

Steve Jobs WAS Apple

I switched from PC to Apple in 2007. Was not happy with lack of phone support but once I taught myself Apply language, vs PC I loved all my apple products ! My computers never crashed, they were fast, I never had a problem.

Then Steve died. Apple began falling apart. They introduced Lion, at a too good price to be true. My guy said RESIST, RESIST ! I didn't listen. Then Siri became more cheeky, took time off (just you needed her guidance) with a message, I can't help you now, I'm sorry. No explanation other than she was mourning for Steve. Lion teamed with Micro Soft's iCloud - Apples competitor - continued to reek havoc on my computer ... files disappeared, slow deliver of content, the difficultly of trying to keep my item ON my computer and out of some floating space up in the sky where potentially any hacker can grab and run.

Now trapped in the world of indecision --- wait it out until Apples finds an intelligent CEO / COO with the desire to his best for disillusioned Apple loyals, or to jump ship and go back to buying the slightly less expensive PC's that seem to be working better these days and anti-virus software on a yearly basis that (in past) slowed down performance.

On the very worse of days I long for the time live was simpler: a time one could phone the library to get information, and say real life kitty memes in action, and a time we had friends face to face (with bodies attached) and going to Dairy Queen, playing baseball in the park, meeting 'downtown' to just hang out and be 100% devoted to the others - not mobiles, iPads, or any such distractions. A time when life was much simpler, and far richer. But still....I miss you, Steve !

Been using apple

Since 98'. Was learning apples in grade school when they indoctrinated the children early on. This is NOT apple

Anymore. The should change the name at this point. They have totally screwed the software and no one is interested in that el crapitan. Too bad they are still a better choice then Windows. Someone who knows what the freak they are doing desperately needs to come on the scene and save humanity.

And so DRM one again proves its worth by shutting down paying customers while leaving the so-called pirates running without a hitch.

This is why even legitimate, paying customers sometimes use cracked copies.