Without a doubt, the FaceTime failure is giving a lot to talk about and especially in countries where the use of this service is much more widespread than in our country. In the United States, even the mayor of New York himself announced the problem on his Twitter account.and this is important enough that it goes unnoticed since it is rarely "involved" in these technological aspects.
On the other hand, in our country even the television news echoed what happened with FaceTime, something that is not very normal for it to happen either. In any case, the bug seems to have been prevented thanks to a user who claims sent the ruling to Cupertino a few days before the news broketo the media and spread like wildfire.
And it seems that a user detected the problem and reported it to Apple immediately but without getting any response about the failure. Obviously it is something that can happen more when they have to receive thousands of reports of problems (whether true or not) but in this case, as in many others, all the mess would have been avoided hours before announcing the financial results. This is the tweet with which the user warned of a bug detected and that he had reported it to the Cupertino company:
My teen found a major security flaw in Apple's new iOS. He can listen in to your iPhone / iPad without your approval. I have video. Submitted bug report to @AppleSupport… Waiting to hear back to provide details. Scary stuff! #apple #bugreport @foxnews
- MGT7 (@ MGT7500) January 21, 2019
Well, finally it seems that Apple did not arrive on time and the news leaked in all the media giving a very bad image of privacy at Apple, something that they have been taking a long time ago. For the moment the measure to disable group calls from FaceTime is still activeso you have to keep waiting to see when the service is restored without the problem.