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clubs: | Re: Didn't this happen last time? not surprised when you force people to activate in store you'd think they'd be ready!
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LiamJunket
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Ocean City, NJ | Re: Didn't this happen last time? And aside from any iPhone 2.0 & iTunes problems, the mandated in-store activation has created large lines at the Apple stores slowing day one sales quite a bit. | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: Didn't this happen last time? Those that want the device that bad on day 1 have been waiting... they'll just have a wait a little longer.
In a day or 2, there will be no lines.
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| Re: Didn't this happen last time? said by en102  :Those that want the device that bad on day 1 have been waiting... they'll just have a wait a little longer. In a day or 2, there will be no lines. Those that want the device that bad, are nuts anyway. Let them stand in lines all day. They didn't expect that? Almost as dumb as Apple not expecting the server loads!
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| said by LiamJunket :And aside from any iPhone 2.0 & iTunes problems, the mandated in-store activation has created large lines at the Apple stores slowing day one sales quite a bit. Also, those users upgrading their original iPhones to the 2.0 firmware are being bricked at a prodigious rate. Seems the last step of an iPhone 1 upgrade is to connect to the App store to complete activation of the upgrade. Problem is that the App store is buried and can't keep up.
»www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/11/si···growing/
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| Re: Didn't this happen last time? said by Defiance82 :hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Poor ole Apple... May you R.I.P. One of the dumbest post I've seen in a while. | |
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1 edit | Re: Didn't this happen last time? Not really...
What is "dumb" are people who are wrapped into the apple is the only worthy OS / company on the planet... and end up getting butt pounded by Apple (ie.. iphone price drop , iphone locked to a single carrier with a piss poor 3G deployment..etc..)
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sporkme
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| said by Defiance82 :hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Poor ole Apple... May you R.I.P. Prediction: By Monday the stock will be over $180 again as "the street" decides that something that sells well enough to crash servers is a good thing. | |
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| Re: Didn't this happen last time? said by sporkme :said by Defiance82 :hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Poor ole Apple... May you R.I.P. Prediction: By Monday the stock will be over $180 again as "the street" decides that something that sells well enough to crash servers is a good thing. I hope so. My IRA needs a boost with the way the market has been. I'm hoping they'll split soon. | |
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Count Zero
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Snickerdo
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| said by Matt :Didn't this happen when the first iPhone was released? Yup, for a good 2-3 days. It was not fun to be on the other end of the phone when customs called in to bitch. | |
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Smith6612
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united state | Mozilla when Firefox 3 came out on download day also ended up killing their site as well. It's hard to predict how many people at one time are going to be loading things up. | |
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join:2008-07-12
Columbia, SC | My motto is "If you are going to do something, do it right the first time". Has AT&T ever done anything right the first time. I don't think so. That is why I stick with VZW. | |
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| Re: Didn't this happen last time? said by mikeg803 :My motto is "If you are going to do something, do it right the first time". Has AT&T ever done anything right the first time. I don't think so. That is why I stick with VZW. This whole situation has absolutely nothing to do with AT&T and everything to do with Apple.
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| Re: Didn't this happen last time? said by mikeg803 :It's AT&T's responsibility to ensure they provide working equipment to their paying customers. It does have to do with AT&T and Apple. Um, you are aware that AT&T doesn't exist outside the US, and that this issue was worldwide, right? This is an Apple issue. Absolutely nothing to do with AT&T.
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| Re: I suppose... I've been going back and forth on that- there are a few Apps in the much-ballyhooed App Store that I'd like to check out, but there are also those jailbroken apps- for example, that NES emulator (think Apple will ever allow that?).
Eventually the hackers will figure out a "best of both worlds" solution, I guess- in the end the hackers always win. | |
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Qumahlin
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| Re: I suppose... said by EPS :I've been going back and forth on that- there are a few Apps in the much-ballyhooed App Store that I'd like to check out, but there are also those jailbroken apps- for example, that NES emulator (think Apple will ever allow that?). Eventually the hackers will figure out a "best of both worlds" solution, I guess- in the end the hackers always win. said by EPS :I've been going back and forth on that- there are a few Apps in the much-ballyhooed App Store that I'd like to check out, but there are also those jailbroken apps- for example, that NES emulator (think Apple will ever allow that?). Eventually the hackers will figure out a "best of both worlds" solution, I guess- in the end the hackers always win. They already have, the new jailbreak tool for 2.0 is released in the next day or so. | |
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join:2006-04-30
Bowling Green, OH | In store only I thought the new iPhones could only be activated in the store, not through iTunes?? | |
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Hingham, MA | Re: In store only I seem to recall reading that stores get a special version of iTunes to activate through. | |
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| I got in line at 7:35 AM in Macon, GA. Before the store opened at 8:00AM a manager came out, passed bottled water and told us they had 30 iphones in stock, mixed randomly (white,black,8GB, 16GB) and that anyone not able to get one could put their name on a list and return next day to get one without having to wait in line.
There were altogether maybe 100 people in line. I go the next to last phone and by that time they had given up on in store activation. I was showed an email form AT&T corporate, to the effect that the at&t activation servers were down and to give the iphones to the customers to activate themselves at home.
I got my phone at 10:25AM, as of this writing 12:04PM, I have been unable to activate...
The bad part about this is that they de-activated my old SIM and I can't use my old phone. | |
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Macon, GA | Re: In store only They activated a new SIM card for the Iphone. I just now took it out and put it in my razr to get that working for the time being. As of 1:00PM EST no activation yet.
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| Re: In store only said by artbatista :They activated a new SIM card for the Iphone. I just now took it out and put it in my razr to get that working for the time being. As of 1:00PM EST no activation yet. Art Why though? Cant you simply insert your old SIM and be done with it?
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Qumahlin
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| Re: In store only said by wifi4milez :said by artbatista :They activated a new SIM card for the Iphone. I just now took it out and put it in my razr to get that working for the time being. As of 1:00PM EST no activation yet. Art Why though? Cant you simply insert your old SIM and be done with it? No, if you want all of the features to actually work the phone must be re-activated via itunes and connect to the servers. | |
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MrMoody
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Smithfield, NC | Expect it Hey, if you have to have something like this on the first day, you should expect this sort of thing. A true fan is willing to stand around all day waiting.
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| iTunes What happens is that in the store there is a "special" version of iTunes that is used to activate. To activate it seems they are downloading it, then connecting to the server to activate.
The problem is EVERYONE that is buying one and EVERY store that is selling the phones are doing it basically at the same time, so there is no ability to activate.
I got mine early and then went back with a friend. In Albany, NY they are basically sending people out the door with a phone that does not work and telling them to come back in a "couple days".
This seems to be most problematic for people trying to transfer a number for some reason. | |
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FicmanS
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DaveNJ
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| Re: Stop the insanity Yeah but it's a HarleyApple, so just having it makes you cool, and you get double bonus cool points for getting it the first day. Take it to a club tonight and flash it around, you'll be so cool I guarantee you'll get laid.
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1 edit | Re: Stop the insanity said by MrMoody :Yeah but it's a HarleyApple, so just having it makes you cool, and you get double bonus cool points for getting it the first day. Take it to a club tonight and flash it around, you'll be so cool I guarantee you'll get laid. Moody-
You are SO right. I remember last summer, the night of the 1st launch, a guy was at the bar I was at with one. He might've been one of the ugliest dudes I've seen, but had a crowd around him a majority of the night. 
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1 edit | Re: Stop the insanity Are you guys serious? Cool? How old are you? 15? | |
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| Seriously, Everyone should really stop and think about all this Iphone Crap. Number one, the Iphone isn't that great, Number 2 the network sucks and the people suck. The Phone is so ball and chained its ridiculous. You have a chained phone and whats more, Apple has full control over what you do with the phone! CRAZY! Apple's New Iphone is nothing special except coming up with another update of the phone and firmware to get people away from the OLD Iphones that have been unlocked. Craziness. Whats more, they cant even get it off the ground!! | |
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Titus Pullo
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join:2004-06-26 | Never fear Jobby-Jobs will polish this turd to a lustrous shine once ... what's that? MobileMe isn't working yet either? After three days?
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|  Not surpised
I also think that iPhone is dumb and inferior to many other phones. I own a Nokia N95 (5 MP camera with flash, Wi-Fi, Real GPS and much more) which runs on Symbian and I LOVE IT.
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HEDP
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Miami, FL | ! Just goes to show how many people bitch about gas and everything else yet throw their money away on a phone, that does not even work that good. | |
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| Software Problems Bug Apple's Launch Of New iPhone Kenny Pichardo, 24, was the first to buy an iPhone 3G at an AT&T store in the New York borough of Queens, but he said it took the store half an hour to get the phone working.
A spokesman for AT&T Inc., the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the U.S., said there was a global problem with Apple Inc.'s iTunes software that prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store, as had been planned.
Instead, employees are telling buyers to go home and perform the last step by connecting their phones to their own computers, spokesman Michael Coe said.
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FastiBook
join:2003-01-08
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| It is a nice phone. I have three friends who have the earlier version, one who will update later this week. When she ordered her McAirBook, she accidentally bought two.....I begged for the xtra one to no avail. I would buy one if it would work on Sprint with my Sero plan and their EVDO revA. | |
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herdfan
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| Re: Different error said by McLovin :I was told that Apple took the servers offline to prevent 2g iphone owners from bricking them. Apparently the 2.0 software has caused a LOT of problems. Anyone else hear about this? YES. I upgraded to 2.0 this morning and now have Brick 2.0. My phone is dead and it won't work until I can get access to the server. | |
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cbrigante2
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Carbon Unit
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| Its doesnt make since why Apple decided to release 2.0 and the 3g phone all on the same day, they should have released 2.0 a few weeks before the 3g phone was released, now there servers are maxed out  Apple is not such a great company as some ppl may think
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ptrowski
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clubs: | Still can't update my Touch.... Going on 6 hours to try to update my Touch, still no dice. | |
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Titus Pullo
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| Re: Still can't update my Touch.... said by ptrowski :Going on 6 hours to try to update my Touch, still no dice. "Can't Touch this" ... Touch
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Hingham, MA | Re: Still can't update my Touch.... It's even worse here, because at least Mozilla's products are free- people are paying Apple and at&t for this. | |
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Barmat
Uhmmm Floor Pie
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clubs: | Waste of time I spent four ours in line this morning and the store ran out of all models w/ 100 people still in line. Did Apple really think this through? | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: Waste of time Doesn't that happen every fall - Thanksgiving PS-3/Wii, etc.
Supply and demand... Cap the supply to keep demand high.
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1 edit | Re: Waste of time That makes no sense what so ever. Here in the bay area Wii's still last 5sec on the shelf before they are snatched up by profiteers putting them on ebay/craigslist. I still want/would buy a Wii if I saw it on the shelf. I refuse to pay some scumbags mark up to get one though.
I would think an abundant supply would lead to impulse and regular sales.
Since I stood in line for 4 hours today and came up empty handed I'm pissed. I prob will wait a month or so before I step back into a store looking for one. Of course by then there maybe something better that catches my eye or gets my money. | |
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| On the Inside I'm disappointed that our audience here at BBR is more interested in debating Apple/the iPhone instead of discussing the technical details of what happened here. Perhaps I'm the only visitor still interested in the technology and connectivity which makes all of this possible. Anyway, doesn't Apple power all of their web services via Akamai's EdgeSuite platform? It looks like that would be able to handle the load of serving up all those static firmware files. Of course, I guess it's the registration and account management that takes a bit more server-side processing. There is definitely a bottle-neck somewhere. | |
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clubs: | Re: On the Inside Since I work for a QA firm, maybe I need my load/performance architect to start calling into Apple. | |
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| Well it would be interesting to talk about the technology but there are so few that actually understand the technology.
For example how akamai actually does the serving and how the files were actually seeded over multiple servers. It is great to talk about but the fact that people like you think it can actually handle the load, shows the lack of understanding of the systems, so why bother? I mean the fact that it is not just the firmware but the actual transaction processing at AT&T for account generation that was the problem, along with those migrating phone numbers who could not get the "pic" executed properly...see it wasn't just a firmware issue but a complete system issue from firmware, to registration, to billing, to number migration...ohhh well... | |
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