iMessages and Google failure

[iMore Question]

Hello,
few days ago we had a big Google failure in middle Europe. During that we had group conversation with friends. Here comes the weirdest thing. While Google was out we couldn't post any image. In group conversation it failed and when we tried to send it one to one it was sent as MMS. Immediately after Google went online again iMessages and free image sending started to work again...Weird isn't?

 

[Rob Phillips]

Welcome to iMore! Weird but not surprising. Apple uses Google for some of its backend stuff so it's possible the Google outage affected some Apple services.