The App Store is down

Midday on Friday it appeared that

Apple’s

App Store, a critical piece of the digital and mobile economies, struggled with uptime issues. Apple’s own status page

indicated that the application vendor was having an “ongoing” issue that affected “some users.”

The company said that it was investigating the issue, according to its website.

Users weren’t pleased. A quick Twitter search shows a host of complaints from users noting that they

can’t make purchases

on the App Store, were struggling with sign-on issues

and that downloads had ground to a halt

.

Despite launching after the original iPhone, the App Store has become an industry to itself. According to certain data, the App Store

drove $50 billion gross sales in 2019

— Apple takes a cut of transactions and sales, generating material revenue for itself.

The App Store will come back, but Apple is losing money along with its developer partners as we speak. More when it’s back. Until then, well, there’s Android or a walk.

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