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Apple Business Chat Sandbox not loading


I'm seeing the following while trying to sign into Apple Chat Business Sandbox for the first time:

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The spinner keeps spinning without any response...

This is happening in both Safari and Chrome browsers.

I'm on High Sierra and Chrome 73

What's missing?


Solution

  • Contrary to the usual promotional bruhaha made by Apple for a couple of years in a row for its Apple Business Chat Sandbox as a great tool for developers, this seems to be yet another of their software duds.

    After a lot (over a month) of back and forth emailing Apple support and experiencing loads of gaslighting and obfuscating by Apple folks of the real state of things, i.e:

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    I finally asked them directly:

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    Here's Apple's response:

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    Perhaps this will serve as a warning for someone looking to implement Apple Business Chat to take their much ballyhooed products with a grain of salt.