Comments on: A Super iPod Christmas?

By: BigDeal

BigDeal — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:45:26 +0000

Big f_cking deal! Get over it. It's not the end of the world!!!

By: YUvamani

YUvamani — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:43:06 +0000

Wow this realty distortion field thing really works. iTunes breaks down due to heavy demand (not good for any online service) and people are not only okay with it, But end up complimenting apple for ipod sales.

The fact remains Apple should have done a better job of predicting demand and Xmas scaling. Predicting demand is not hard. It is correlated to the number of gift cards and ipods sold.

By: Bryan Field-Elliot

Bryan Field-Elliot — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:46:10 +0000

True. We bought our kids Nanos for Christmas + $20 in iTunes, and spent most of the day trying to make purchases, probably 4 out of 5 attempts failing with "Please try again later" messages.

Though it annoyed me, you might be interested to hear that, true to the brand magic which is the iPod, the rest of my family was actually encouraged by the "busy signals", which validated for them that they're part of a vast, cool community of proud new iPod owners.

By: Brady

Brady — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:42:24 +0000

I've had similar problems all weekend. Worst was trying to download iTunes for a family member - the download speed was moving at a crawl and took hours. Also had some errors on the store that were probably associated with heavy traffic on their servers.

Oh well, I'm sure all things will be back to normal shortly enough, but it is a shame some folks first experience was dealing with these issues.

By: Hobobob10

Hobobob10 — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:24:54 +0000

Yup, I've been having problems downloading from iTunes here in Minnesota too. I went to download an episode of The Office and iTunes couldn't connect to the server when I tried signing in.

By: Brad Dickason

Brad Dickason — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:44:52 +0000

More frustrating for me was the lack of access to Wii's Virtual Console all day during the unveiling of some of their biggest games yet. I was aching for a chance to play my brother in Street Fighter 2 and we sat staring at the 'connecting' screen for hours upon hours.

By: Robert Dewey

Robert Dewey — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:45:18 +0000

LimeWire works fine for me ;-)

By: Michael Markman

Michael Markman — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:31:17 +0000

oops. That's J. E. Lighter.

By: Michael Markman

Michael Markman — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:30:39 +0000

Jive is the new jibe. The old jive meant what Guy Kawasaki calls bull shitake and sex. J. E. Lighte traces the old jive back to the twenties with a page and a half of citations of mainly negative and nasty meanings. But recently--that is beginning in the thirties, some citations creep in that use jive the way Om uses it. (Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume II). And by the forties, some people use it to mean jibe. I hear jive for jibe all the time. That horse is out of the barn. Don't waste your locks.

As for the hot selling Shuffle, Leslie Stiles says that $79 is the new $49.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:01:44 +0000

Oh…and I almost forgot…Merry Christmas Om and Crew!!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:01:15 +0000

I cannot attest to the store outages because I did not try to buy/preview anything. I did get weird errors all day when trying to enjoy my new shuffle though. On that note, I can say that I add to the boatload of people who received an apple product for christmas.

By: Robb

Robb — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 06:28:26 +0000

Wasn't working in Ohio. Got a new Ipod Video and wasn't able to buy anything via iTunes although I could download the preiviews without any problem.

By: John

John — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 06:10:37 +0000

More of the same in California. I hope this tapers off, or that Apple invests some capital into expanding their servers…

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:58:04 +0000

jive, as in swings … using the jazz vernacular. i meant jive, (swings) and not jibe.

By: Ritesh Patel

Ritesh Patel — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:57:21 +0000

Yes, 'tis true. Most of my mates int he UYK had issues as well as the folks I gave ipods to for Xmas. All complained about the "try again, there was an error" message they got most of the day.

Hmmm

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:51:09 +0000

I tried to authorize an iTunes song to play on my brother's computer and received an error twice. I immediately assumed the store was being ravished by new iPod purchases as well as iTunes gift cards being used.