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.
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.
Posted by: D | July 11, 2008 at 02:54 PM
D, I don't think the Apple fanboys are capable of making that admission. They'll somehow try to blame this on Microsoft.
Posted by: Shane O'Toole | July 11, 2008 at 03:43 PM
Haha, best post I've heard about this yet. Sums it up perfectly...
Posted by: L | July 11, 2008 at 03:48 PM
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.
Posted by: Allen | July 11, 2008 at 04:01 PM
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.
Posted by: Mark | July 11, 2008 at 04:07 PM
I just want the 2.0 software for my Touch. Can I get it? NO!
Posted by: Travis | July 11, 2008 at 04:13 PM
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!
Posted by: Mike Cane | July 11, 2008 at 05:10 PM
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.
Posted by: Mark | July 11, 2008 at 05:31 PM
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.
Posted by: Illuminator | July 11, 2008 at 06:14 PM
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.
Posted by: Dave Zatz | July 11, 2008 at 07:34 PM
I feel your pain. I went down to the Apple store here in Tampa. It was a madhouse. I actually wanted to buy 4 iMacs and an iphone (I'm setting up an office). They said they could sell me the iMacs, but, I had to wait in the (three hour wait) line for the iPhone. No thanks. I'll order online.
Posted by: Khalid Saeed | July 11, 2008 at 09:15 PM
My new buddy worked perfectly when I got it. I had all my contacts, calendar, bookmarks, email sync'd into the phone using 3G in a few minutes after leaving the store. And was perhaps making my fellow bus travelers a bit nervous as I giggled a bit surfing around using the bookmarks and catching up on my email letting everyone know I had the new bad boy on the block.
It all worked perfectly.
I'm headed back into it again this morning. Friend of mine is off to get his and I'm off to hopefully get a dock (needs a new dock, can't use old one, they'd run out yesterday) and keep him company. He's got Texas Hold 'em and BattleAtSea on his original iPhone so we'll be busy.
Posted by: Scotty | July 12, 2008 at 06:49 AM
Waiting in line at 3AM, got my phone by 8:30, then went home and went to bed. Woke up at 4 after the hysteria had died down and activated no problem.
Posted by: Mike | July 12, 2008 at 07:52 AM
My purchase was late in the day and the activation process in the store took maybe 5 minutes without a hitch.
Posted by: James Kendrick | July 12, 2008 at 07:58 AM
Heh...exactly. What's funny is I'd bet a paycheck that the next time something like this happens, the same people will be standing in the same lines and posting the same complaints about the same problems. Like the sign hanging over Jim Jones reads, "Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it".
Posted by: Mark | July 12, 2008 at 11:36 AM