When is apple going to fix imessage and FaceTime problems?

Question

Hello,
I am having the same problem as a lot of other users seem to have: my imessage and facetime applications are not accepting my password. I found a way to (temporarily) fix this via deletion of the host file. Since then facetime works, my imessage worked for about a week and since then it's asking for password, about every 5 minutes. About an hour ago it stopped accepting my password and is stuck doing whatever- btw: It works on my iPhone 5. Now I could waste another 2 to 3 hours to find a way to fix it, try another way if the first one won't work and so on. But I don't want to. I spent A LOT of money on my MBP and my iPhone 5. I was promised an "integrated system" where "everything just works". It stopped working a long time ago and thing about these applications is that they are integrated. They are system apps and searching through different forums will show you that a lot of people have a common problem regarding IM and FT.
So when is Apple finally going to fix this???

Answer 1

HI,
You are probably already aware of the FaceTime, Games Centre and Messages Trouble Shooting document as item 5 is about the Hosts file.
There is the one about the ports FaceTime and iMessages use regarding iPhones.  (that is to say it was written from iPhones before the Mac version of Messages was released.)
Despite the number of posts on the subject making it look like a substantial problem the numbers are actually quite small compared to the number of Mountain Lion Installs.
As Apple never say when they are going to change something it will be impossible say if and when they might fix this for the ones having the issue.
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