Comments on: Open Thread – Did You Survive The iPocalypse?

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive What is Up With MobileMe? «

WebWorkerDaily » Archive What is Up With MobileMe? « — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:00:10 +0000

[...] has been that way for up to four days. Coming on top of the iPhone 3G’s opening day “iPocalypse” activation troubles, this seems to indicate one of three things: Apple seriously [...]

By: primetoonz

primetoonz — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:54:20 +0000

I did 2 cartoons to illustrate the events here:

http://primetoonz.blogspot.com/2008/07/horror-of-ipocalypse.html

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:33:23 +0000

I guess I was lucky. Sort of. I walked away from a two hour wait after they sold out (after 20 units that took forever to set up!) at the AT&T store – though they told us we could get on a waiting list! Why didn’t they tell us when they saw 100 people in line and saw only 20 units? Ridiculous!

I went to the Apple store in the afternoon after all the server crashes had taken place. I went home and had a few emails from people that knew I was getting a phone saying they had heard about the crashes and sent me links. Fortunately, when I went to the apple store the line was zooming, and they made it through a few hundred people in a few hours by the time I got into the store. My setup (new AT&T account and iPhone activation) took no more than 10 minutes. I could tell they were getting it down, and things seemed to be running smoothly with the servers and everything. I had the option of the phone I wanted, and already knew the plan I wanted, so maybe that helped it move quicker. I got the 16GB black, by the way!

Jake
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By: Web Worker Daily » Archive iPhone 3G: 1 Million Sold «

Web Worker Daily » Archive iPhone 3G: 1 Million Sold « — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:31:46 +0000

[...] 14th, 2008 (6:30am) Mike Gunderloy No Comments Well, that didn’t take long. Despite the activation hassles, despite the cost, Apple had a phenomenally successful opening weekend for the iPhone 3G: by [...]

By: Lis

Lis — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:23:35 +0000

I didn’t purchase the new iPhone but I did upgrade my iTouch to access the new Apps. They are fantastic! Even some of the free ones are pretty incredible. My favorites include “Where” which includes a feature to find the closest gas station and the price of gas there. There are a lot more apps available to iPhone users, and I look forward to someday buying an iPhone once I don’t have to get a phone plan through AT&T

By: Arvinder Singh

Arvinder Singh — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:02:48 +0000

I bought mine on Friday itself. It was a unique experience in terms of standing in a queue for almost 5 hours. I always questioned what kind of insanity can draw someone to own a piece of equipment that can be yours seven days later sitting in the comfort of your sofa. However, I wanted to experience this first hand and chose to stand in the line outside the Apple Store in Bethesda, MD. Ironically the AT&T store next to the Apple store had employees twiddling their thumbs since they sold out their stock. Here it is a long queue outside the Apple Store waiting to get their phones. I guess a part of Apple startegy to create this long queues(directly translates into curiousity and word of mouth sales). Anyway the store staff was nice since they offered drinking water, coffee and occassionally choclates to the poor customers.
The scene inside was even more chaotic. The so called experts were trying their best to keep a happy face but the process of activating not only caused consternation on the part of the employee and the customer but was a constant issue of confusion.
As of the phone, bigger than the previous version. I agree with David Progue that 3G is not everywhere. Infact it is not even available 100% of time even is areas so called 3G covered in AT&T charts. The phone applications are a potential gold mine. I say potential since it is to be seen how many of them end up being useful and sustainable. But the biggest disappointment after 2 days of use is battery life. I don’t think so it lasted 10 hours with medium use of the services and ofcourse push email with Exchange Server.
But ofcouse Apple iPhone user experience is still unbeatable and that is what makes me still a lover of iPhone.

By: Joel Falconer

Joel Falconer — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:03:17 +0000

To those who said the launch should’ve been staggered worldwide: it was. It was 11 July _in the timezone of that country_, so for instance in Australia we got the 3G the day before you Americans. Since they were sold out by midday of launch day, there’s no way the Aussie launch was impacting activations in America a full 24 hrs later. Same goes with the rest of the world, I imagine.

By: Russell Myers

Russell Myers — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:41:40 +0000

Got in line Friday at 7:30 AM. At 11:45 AM left the store with an 8 GIG instead of a 16 GIG. Took me another five hours to get the thing activated. Once it was activated, due to a fumble on the AT&T representative’s part, I had to go BACK to AT&T and get a replacement SIM card. Also had to correct the plan the representative had signed me up for.

Despite the frustrating day I’ve been playing with this phone the majority of the weekend. The application market is still slightly lacking, but that’s to be expected for a new product. I’m starting to also question the battery life. Its certainly an upgrade over my first generation iPhone, but I’m not sure it was worth the wait in line and extra cash when I could’ve settled with the firmware upgrade.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:13:01 +0000

I had a bit of a nightmare in the UK, and still don’t have an iPhone despite having paid for it. Basically, I ordered it from Carphone Warehouse for guarenteed delivery on Friday to my house. But instead of delivering it to my house it was sent to the local branch (courier had a signature for it and everything). It was caused by a bug on the Carphone Warehouse website according to their customer service rep. Anywho, I found all this out after spending on hour on the phone to various people, and headed down to the branch to pick up the phone (by now it was about 6:30PM). I was told it would be there as they weren’t allowed to sell it. Guess what? It wasn’t there. Even though their customer services said it was there, and the courier had a signature for it (I was actually talking to the guy who signed for it), the branch denied it was there. What obviously happened is that they sold it ( I was told by another salesman that they were sold out by 10:20 AM, and the store opened at 10AM).

Basically, can’t fault O2 or Apple, but Carphone Warehouse were an absolute shambles and two days after the guarenteed delivery, I still don’t have it. I’m basically waiting for the nex shipment to come in, which could be weeks.

The Lesson: Never deal with the Carphone Warehouse.

By: Jon Moss

Jon Moss — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:42:39 +0000

Very patchy experience here in the UK - have done a video of my experience here. Overall, not good!