So your new iPhone is a brick?
OK, all of you folks who got up hours earlier than usual and stood in line in the heat for hours and hours to get your brand new iPhone 3G quit whining already. Sure you probably thought after all that waiting and work you’d have a working phone but come on! This is an iPhone. Didn’t you pay attention the last time? These things never activate properly right after you get one at launch so stop crying already. It will work in a day or two and then you can go back to telling the rest of us how much better than us you are with your new iPhone.
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I wonder where the blame will land. I hear many people blaming ATT, then I read the same thing is happening for O2 customers in the UK, and Rodgers in Canada. The chance of it being an iTunes issue are high. Mac fanboys admit Apple is just another company, not perfect.
D, I don’t think the Apple fanboys are capable of making that admission. They’ll somehow try to blame this on Microsoft.
Haha, best post I’ve heard about this yet. Sums it up perfectly…
What a mistake I made by sleeping to 8:00 A.M. getting a CUPPA and reading the morning newspaper. Some days it Does pay to get your sleep.
I posted a half rant earlier about their being no 3G here so what’s the point and blah blah blah. But since I was just up the street, I stopped by the local AT&T where a guy assured me they have 3G at my house because he lives right up the street. Go figure. Anyway, I ended up signing up and getting an iPhone. Turns out I got the last one in the store and, believe it or not, it actually activated in the store. Took about 5 minutes and everyone else was left with their jaws swaying in the breeze. I sniffed “Must be because I’m a geek”. Not bad for stopping by on a lark. And the AT&T dude said if I have any questions, call his cell and he can stop by in the evening or something.
I just want the 2.0 software for my Touch. Can I get it? NO!
I was going to post about the whining, but decided wtf, I have better things to do. This happened the FIRST TIME too. I don’t see people still crying a year later over it! It’ll pass.
I just hope when I can finally get mine, it’ll go smoothly. Or I’ll cry like a baby! Hah!
The people I know complaining aren’t 3G iPhone users. They’re just existing users who woke up today expecting to be able to make phone calls.
I was in line at 6:30 this morning. Actually, number 6, which I thought was amazing. The only reason I stopped in so early was because there was a line. I’m glad I did too, because by 8 there were over 40 people in the line.
Needless to say, the activation problems did not leave me unaffected. I was only just, within the last 15 minutes, able to complete the activation process, which AT&T told us to complete at home as the ushered us out of the store.
Not a huge issue, but a huge annoyance. I do put the responsibility for the issue directly on Apple’s plate, based on it being an iTunes issue.
However, now that things are working, I’m happy.
Well at 7:30PM I was kicked out of the Montgomery County, MD Apple Store for (trying) to browse – though I made a bit of a scene when the security guard put her arm on my chest. They’re having a hard, hard time with crowd control which is pretty crazy 12 hours after launch. (I’d say at least 100 people in line.)
Fortunately Me.Com seems to be up. It’s slow though. Kinda like my v2.0 software on my gen 1 iPhone – too bad, since that was a driving force in moving off WinMo.