This may be too cynical for a summer Friday but bear with us. When we read the news about many purchasers having trouble activating the iPhone, we couldn't help but wonder if Apple isn't trying to send out a message that it is selling even more iPhone than expected. Although officially AT&T is describing this as a "worldwide issue with i-Tunes" it is being read as an indication that iPhone activiations are through the roof.
A pretty typical comment comes from the Fortune Favors The Bold blog. "Seems that Apple can't handle all the people who are both activating 3G phones and trying to upgrade their original iPhones (there was a software update released yesterday), so their servers are pulling a Twitter and causing issues for everyone," FFTB writes. Twitter is a website that allows users to send short messages to collections of friends. It's users frequently send messages complaining about the unreliability of the service.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 2:57PM
Yeah you can't read it that way. All the old phones who update to the new firmware have to re-activate. So not only are they activating new phones they're also activating all the phones that are already out there. In hindsight, it's going to go down as a stupid idea but since they're Apple everyone will write it off as business genius. Personally, I think the genius lies in charging $10 for the software upgrade when other firmware upgrades by other companies (Microsoft, Sony, Verizon) all come for free.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 3:10PM
I should be playing Super Monkey Balls on the can right now, with my updated iPhone, but i cant even make calls with it. Never again Jobs.