iTMS App Store is broken YET AGAIN – SmallFish Chess for Stockfish Review

Well, it’s that time again, folks! Apple has fouled up something on their iTunes App Store servers, and so those of us who are still using iTunes 12.6.5 for Enterprise iOS device support and management are unable to (1) download new purchases from the store, and (2) update existing apps. When you clock the “download” button in the App Store, you see a message “Downloading …” but nothing happens and no error message appears. Similarly, if you click the “update” button on an app update, or the “Update All Apps” button, you will see the same “Downloading …” messages, but nothing will actually download and you’ll see no error message to explain why. This happens for every single app in the app store and every single update shown in the iTMS app updates interface. Maybe the Big Brains at Apple have chosen this particular moment to finally, silently cut off all iOS app download/update methods except those done via the iDevice’s individual App Store interfaces, making it impossible for IT managers to control app purchase/update rollouts across all of their devices in anything other than an anarchic, catch-as-catch-can fashion. Or maybe they’ve just bungled their backend app update servers, like they seem to do with increasing frequency throughout these last few years of continuing decay and cr*pification of Apple’s feeble Web Services offerings. As usual, Apple support aren’t listening to end-users who submit error reports for this issue, so the only recourse for us is to pass the buck by giving one-star reviews to every app update that’s affected, in the hopes that developers with money on the line and access to actual iTunes Technical Support (as opposed to the teenage babysitters assigned to deal with lowly end-users) can get the problem fixed sometime before the next ice age arrives. As of 09:51 on Monday, 23 March 2020, this is the list of app updates I’ve found that exhibit this problem: AT&T Call Protect BestParking Blue Shield of California CARR DocuSign DuckDuckGo Cornell University’s eBird Epocrates Eventbrite Fandango File Hub Garmin Explore Google’s Gmail Google Drive ibotta IMDB Medium Microsoft OneDrive MyTSA Netflix Nextdoor O’Reilly Publishers OmniFocus 3 ParkWhiz Periscope Live Video Streaming Photoshop Express Priceline Progressive Insurance Reddit RegEx Lab Rocket.Chat Route: Package & Order Tracker SmallFish Chess Snapchat Songkick Spotify StubHub Sync - Secure cloud storage Ticketmaster Travelocity Waze WordPress Yahoo Sports YouTube Zomato 17Track
Review by MaxAgHammer on SmallFish Chess for Stockfish.