I went to couple of ATT story this morning around 10.00am, and there are line outside. Talk to the sale rep, she told all iphone are sold, but they will get some in later today, but I have to come back tomorrow.
Then I went to the Apple store in the Mall, there were at least 50 people wait it line, the Apple rep told me there are plenty of Iphone, she said the wait is 3 hours, so I left. Went back at 4.00pm, the line is shorter, but the wait is down to 2 hours.

I will try to go back tomorrow..

Is the whole customer service fiasco going to hurt Apple in the long run? You have to think competitors are ready to pounce.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Its-iPhone-3G-release-day-Remember-patience-is-a-virtue

sounds like some kind of self-perpetuating mentality going on. people queue up because it will be short stocked, and apple spreads it think to make it short stocked.

if there is one thing one can say about apple, is that they know their marketing…

You need to clear something up for me. Is a strip centre or strip mall something innocent or is it what it sounds like? If it’s the latter I can understand why your wife is upset. And what a place to sell phones at!

They know their EDGE service sucks. I can’t imagine why they thought folks living in the middle of their very first 3G hot spot wouldn’t be lined up…

Thanks for that link. I’ll have to remember not to eat my iPhone once I get it. :)

That’s hilarious TreeAmplexus, thanks for the link. It’s basically a press release that says “Apple hasn’t told us anything yet – how dare they!”.

Gotta love the ‘zeal of the zealots’…lol…

I understand that this is a blog and not a news site. I also understand that you guys don’t want to be left out of the hype-da-jour web-traffic and web-chatter. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this represents a best-we-could-come-up-with post, but you could always take a stab at journalism too:

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/press-center/releases2/g-in-the-new-3g-iphone-will

There’s not even a clear cut issue here, but at least it represents something actual to post and discuss. Cheers.

Um, so THAT;s why you were in such a hurry to get out of the house! LOL Oh, and you were so accomodating when I asked for a manicure and pedicure!

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.

Seems a lot of people (stores included) are having issues with the Apple Store and activating the phones. Oops!