Settle down guys... they're being slammed across the world right now with interest in multiple services. The volume on their servers, while clearly beyond what they were expecting, will be way greater than what it will be in short order as things calm down. You will live just fine having endured a short period of inconvenience.
Got mine this morning from Car Phone Warehouse thanks to my mate working for them and hiding one under the counter On saying that there were no queues outside and only 3 people in the store, all collecting iPhone's of course.
Transaction went fairly smooth although that can't be said for my other mates who either left 02 stores empty handed or came out with their iPhones unactivated. This was due to the internal systems overloading and people queing.
Anyway it's beauty and set up in 10 mins. My only beef was i would have thought they'd put the sim card in. Whilst not an issue for me, thanks to YouTube, i can see the average user scratching their heads wondering where the sim card goes. In fact i handed the iPhone around to three colleagues and not one of them guessed were the sim went. Now that's what i call a well designed product.
2.0 Updated basically bricked my original iphone supposedly due to the huge demand on Itunes. It's been two hours.. "accessing itunes store" Kinda poor planning on Apple's behalf. I hear Apple employees are letting new adopters activate their handsets at home because of this mess.
As long as the SIM cards are activated then you can activate it at home
I had decided to stop by the Netcom store which is right outside my office building on my way to work. However, there was a line of 200 people there (at 06:30 AM) - so I didn't have time to wait for all those people to get and activate their phone. So I hoped the supplies would last until the end of the work day. No such luck. Netcom, the exclusive iPhone provider here in Norway, SERIOUSLY underestimated the demand. All the stores in all of Norway sold out in a few hours - and, get ready for this... - Netcom's online store sold out within ONE MINUTE.
How is it possible to be THAT far off when estimating the demand?
that's what I was going to say....some of those pictures can be slightly erotic to the right person viewing them, the close ups, the unusual angles, a pair of naked phones
I was just reading the reports on the Macworld UK website about the launch in the UK and they are already calling it a 'fiasco' with a multitude of problems and long delays to activate the phones once purchased.
Quote: "Apple has an exclusive deal with network operator O2 in the UK - but O2's web-based activation system requires the use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to register a new phone: It won't work with the Safari browser bundled in Apple's Mac OS X. In its Regent Street store, Apple had installed VMware Fusion desktop virtualisation software on some of its Macintosh computers, allowing them to run Internet Explorer on Windows, but the activation process was still not working."
I'm no expert but surely these problems could have been forseen and ironed out before launch day? It's been over a month since Apple announced the iPhone release date.
Clearly the problems are not with Apple or the iPhone itself but with the activation process.
I had a play with the iPhone in my local Carphone Warehouse. Looks really good and seems to sit in the hand more comfortably than the first version.
Can't wait for the PAYG version so I get one for myself.
Well, the actual launch plans and details were probably only decided 1-2 weeks ago (sadly). My local AT&T store ran out of phones right when I got there so I paid the $300 to reserve a 16GB black iPhone when it ships to them.
Honestly, unless you are a new AT&T customer, sadly your best bet is to go to an AT&T store to get your phone. I don't think the Apple dudes are trained enough to handle more complicated cases. In my case, getting a number in another state (I'll be moving soon) would prove too much of a hassle for the Apple guys to take care of, but at least the AT&T sales reps have a small clue about what they are doing.
Hopefully everything will have calmed down in a month or two.
Do you really think the response was beyond what they were expecting? [...]
The other possibility worth considering here is that they knew this would happen, but simply decided to accept a degree of difficulty. It is entirely possible that the volume of traffic they are facing right now could be 30x or more their normal volume, and when you translate that into resources and server capabilities, you are left quite quite an incredible cost and need. We can only speculate, of course, but some of this may have been seen as an acceptable cost.
Not all of it, though. I'm sure their engineers are working their asses off right now.
I think you know that the email will not remain this slow. Is there even a point in complaining about it?
As for predicting the load on their servers, you clearly aren't a network engineer.
I'd like to think you used an iPhone to take those images. No? Oh well...
I don't think iPhone's camera can take pictures that nice.
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...and this was also my thinking. I don't think the pictures were taken with a SLR camera.
If it's not a dSLR, it sure looks close to it. You should see the reflection in the bezel in some of the photos.
I don't think the high, undiffused sun is helping. The lint and scratches aren't helping make the pictures look nice, but then, it's a realistic look at what the black will look like with even the lightest use.
It's a little overcompressed, but really, if AI gets a DIGG flood, then you don't want picture files to be too large.
All in all, I think it looks pretty nice. I don't think any cell phone or pocket camera can make pictures that nice. Maybe a high end point and shoot. I see nothing that says it wasn't dSLR. A lot of P&S cameras can't focus that close either.
My ATT store in Central time Zone couldn't unbrick any of the phones. total confusion. Sent us home to do it on itunes. Can't connect to itunes store, they went ahead and changed my SIM # so im dead in the water with no phone. What the heck is going on. Poor experience Apple. How long have you known this was coming ? I should have waited a few weeks.
Yes, you should have. Wasn't there a similar problem @ last year's launching, albeit with AT&T, and shouldn't that have been lesson enough?
That was the second thing I noticed. The first was the lint.
So it appears the photog wiped the phone with a non-lint free cloth, it left lint as well as micro-scratches. Wow I bet the back gets scratched no matter what you do, I bet even cases that you put on the iPhone will scratch the back.
That was the second thing I noticed. The first was the lint.
So it appears the photog wiped the phone with a non-lint free cloth, it left lint as well as micro-scratches. Wow I bet the back gets scratched no matter what you do, I bet even cases that you put on the iPhone will scratch the back.
I already miss the metal back
I guess you never owned an iPod? Simply get a clickshield or some sort of clam shell case that seals tight and the back will look pristine for as long as you like.
I guess you never owned an iPod? Simply get a clickshield or some sort of clam shell case that seals tight and the back will look pristine for as long as you like.
I have several. I have a leather covered hard shell, clip on, case for my iPod Touch 32GB and even this case made some scratches around the edges. I can't imagine what an iPhone is going to look like if it can be scratched simply by wiping it.
I suspect there are those in this thread who would wish for a hands free slide show. It wouldn't have to recycle - once through should be enough for them. Cheers.
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Settle down guys... they're being slammed across the world right now with interest in multiple services. The volume on their servers, while clearly beyond what they were expecting, will be way greater than what it will be in short order as things calm down. You will live just fine having endured a short period of inconvenience.
Ditto that. Well said.
Transaction went fairly smooth although that can't be said for my other mates who either left 02 stores empty handed or came out with their iPhones unactivated. This was due to the internal systems overloading and people queing.
Anyway it's beauty and set up in 10 mins. My only beef was i would have thought they'd put the sim card in. Whilst not an issue for me, thanks to YouTube, i can see the average user scratching their heads wondering where the sim card goes. In fact i handed the iPhone around to three colleagues and not one of them guessed were the sim went. Now that's what i call a well designed product.
It's like they are having phone sex.
(I know not funny).
2.0 Updated basically bricked my original iphone supposedly due to the huge demand on Itunes. It's been two hours.. "accessing itunes store" Kinda poor planning on Apple's behalf. I hear Apple employees are letting new adopters activate their handsets at home because of this mess.
As long as the SIM cards are activated then you can activate it at home
I'm still waiting for mine to unlock
How is it possible to be THAT far off when estimating the demand?
Mmm....geek porn
that's what I was going to say....some of those pictures can be slightly erotic to the right person viewing them, the close ups, the unusual angles, a pair of naked phones
I agree. Where's he getting this not funny business from? Nice grills!
I was just reading the reports on the Macworld UK website about the launch in the UK and they are already calling it a 'fiasco' with a multitude of problems and long delays to activate the phones once purchased.
Quote: "Apple has an exclusive deal with network operator O2 in the UK - but O2's web-based activation system requires the use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to register a new phone: It won't work with the Safari browser bundled in Apple's Mac OS X. In its Regent Street store, Apple had installed VMware Fusion desktop virtualisation software on some of its Macintosh computers, allowing them to run Internet Explorer on Windows, but the activation process was still not working."
I'm no expert but surely these problems could have been forseen and ironed out before launch day? It's been over a month since Apple announced the iPhone release date.
Clearly the problems are not with Apple or the iPhone itself but with the activation process.
I had a play with the iPhone in my local Carphone Warehouse. Looks really good and seems to sit in the hand more comfortably than the first version.
Can't wait for the PAYG version so I get one for myself.
Well, the actual launch plans and details were probably only decided 1-2 weeks ago (sadly). My local AT&T store ran out of phones right when I got there so I paid the $300 to reserve a 16GB black iPhone when it ships to them.
Honestly, unless you are a new AT&T customer, sadly your best bet is to go to an AT&T store to get your phone. I don't think the Apple dudes are trained enough to handle more complicated cases. In my case, getting a number in another state (I'll be moving soon) would prove too much of a hassle for the Apple guys to take care of, but at least the AT&T sales reps have a small clue about what they are doing.
Hopefully everything will have calmed down in a month or two.
It's like they are having phone sex.
(I know not funny).
You must have a poor sense of humor because you don't know when you are being funny.
I was looking at the strip tease as predictable geek porn when we got this XXX Hot iPhone on iPhone Action as a bonus.
Do you really think the response was beyond what they were expecting? [...]
The other possibility worth considering here is that they knew this would happen, but simply decided to accept a degree of difficulty. It is entirely possible that the volume of traffic they are facing right now could be 30x or more their normal volume, and when you translate that into resources and server capabilities, you are left quite quite an incredible cost and need. We can only speculate, of course, but some of this may have been seen as an acceptable cost.
Not all of it, though. I'm sure their engineers are working their asses off right now.
I think you know that the email will not remain this slow. Is there even a point in complaining about it?
As for predicting the load on their servers, you clearly aren't a network engineer.
I'd like to think you used an iPhone to take those images. No? Oh well...
I don't think iPhone's camera can take pictures that nice.
...and this was also my thinking. I don't think the pictures were taken with a SLR camera.
If it's not a dSLR, it sure looks close to it. You should see the reflection in the bezel in some of the photos.
I don't think the high, undiffused sun is helping. The lint and scratches aren't helping make the pictures look nice, but then, it's a realistic look at what the black will look like with even the lightest use.
It's a little overcompressed, but really, if AI gets a DIGG flood, then you don't want picture files to be too large.
All in all, I think it looks pretty nice. I don't think any cell phone or pocket camera can make pictures that nice. Maybe a high end point and shoot. I see nothing that says it wasn't dSLR. A lot of P&S cameras can't focus that close either.
My ATT store in Central time Zone couldn't unbrick any of the phones. total confusion. Sent us home to do it on itunes. Can't connect to itunes store, they went ahead and changed my SIM # so im dead in the water with no phone. What the heck is going on. Poor experience Apple. How long have you known this was coming ? I should have waited a few weeks.
Yes, you should have. Wasn't there a similar problem @ last year's launching, albeit with AT&T, and shouldn't that have been lesson enough?
It's like they are having phone sex.
(I know not funny).
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And shot as a cheap porn.
Where's the makeup artist to remove those blemishes?
Is that thing scratched ALREADY???
That was the second thing I noticed. The first was the lint.
So it appears the photog wiped the phone with a non-lint free cloth, it left lint as well as micro-scratches. Wow I bet the back gets scratched no matter what you do, I bet even cases that you put on the iPhone will scratch the back.
I already miss the metal back
That was the second thing I noticed. The first was the lint.
So it appears the photog wiped the phone with a non-lint free cloth, it left lint as well as micro-scratches. Wow I bet the back gets scratched no matter what you do, I bet even cases that you put on the iPhone will scratch the back.
I already miss the metal back
I guess you never owned an iPod? Simply get a clickshield or some sort of clam shell case that seals tight and the back will look pristine for as long as you like.
I guess you never owned an iPod? Simply get a clickshield or some sort of clam shell case that seals tight and the back will look pristine for as long as you like.
I have several. I have a leather covered hard shell, clip on, case for my iPod Touch 32GB and even this case made some scratches around the edges. I can't imagine what an iPhone is going to look like if it can be scratched simply by wiping it.
Wish I could afford one...