So I watched about 10 minutes of "Attack Of The Show" on G4 (TV for gamers) and I heard that Apples servers were overloaded with all the usage on them as far as upgrading, using the App Store and Activating all the new 3G iPhones... See article below.
They had a guy from Forbes (sp.) on the show and he made an interesting point, it went something along the lines of, "Apple figures that most of their customers are fanboys, and that they can get away with something like this, I mean the same exact thing happened on the initial launch of the iPhone... They should have at least done a server stress test to see if their system was up for it. But people will probably be angry in a few days, maybe a few weeks, but most people will probably still buy the iPhone and other products from Apple."
I mean, I keep seeing more crap come out of Apple, and they must be the top corporation right now that I seriously hate. I mean I like their products, I have an iPhone 8GB and I love it, its the best phone and or Mp3 player Ive ever had... but the way they did things with it was bullshit (see spoiler for mini-rant)
Spoiler (highlight to read):
I mean they released the phone for what, 600? then a few weeks later they dropped the price 200 bucks to 400$ and released the iTouch, if they had the iTouch out in the begining I bet they would have lost some sames, and they probably knew that. Also, its not like Apple somehow brought manufacturing prices down so far they couldnt have put it out for 400$ in the begining. Then a few months after that they release a 16GB iPhone and a 32GB iTouch. Again, they could have done this in the begining but no, lets see how many people we can get to buy this...
And 3G in the iPone? They couldn't have done this shit before? Again, lets get people to buy something, then make that old, and make them buy something new, and then make that OLD.
I would fucking LOVE apple if they would have launched the iPhone 3G in 8GB, 16GB alone with the iTouch 8GB, 16GB and 32GB on the start for 400$ for the iPhone (without the new rate plan)
But Apple says FUCK that, were going to milk them for every cent.
/rant
omfg. My computer locked up because of this shitty SpySweeper, and I couldn't close it because it Locks itself from the task manager, so I though everything I typed after "Fuck that" in the rant was gone, but FF RESTORED THE TEXT!
+10 Firefox. Fuck yes.
but yeah... discuss.
edit: What they failed to say was how users (in the millions, unconfirmed)upgrading to 2.0 software with their old iPhones had their iPhones disabled because if you have an iPhone you know that when upgrading the software, you pull the plug on your computer, the Phone doesnt work because the new software basically being re-written on the phone. Now this is what happened, but the Apple service was shut down and people were getting cut off half way through the free upgrading process. (It would be great if someone could post an article on that part)Article wrote:
Anticipation quickly turned to frustration on Friday for the millions of Apple customers trying to upgrade their old iPhones to the new software, or activate their newly purchased iPhone 3G. With Apple's servers overloaded and unable to accommodate customer demand, eager buyers who had camped out all week to acquire the new phone were thwarted. Though the new-generation phones were designed to be activated in-store, salespeople instructed customers Friday to go home, connect the phone to a personal computer and download new software to activate it.
Apple did not return phone calls or emails asking for an explanation of its launch-day problems, but by 10 p.m. EST on Friday, this reporter at long last reached a technical support representative, who identified himself only as George: "It's been crazy the whole day," he said. "Our server has been really busy and has been timing out."
The logjam was a major misstep for a company that markets its products as simpler, more elegant and easier to use than the competition's. "The store is basically broken at this point," said Michael Rose, a blogger for tuaw.com, which reports on Apple. When he tried to upgrade his older iPhone Touch early Friday to take advantage of the new software, he says he received an error message informing him the iTunes store was unavailable (the iPhone must be authenticated through Apple's iTunes program to complete a software upgrade). Adds Rose, "I think the lesson is that nobody executes perfectly, not even Apple."
Cassel Kroll, 37, waited in line for three hours Friday morning at the AT&T store on Manhattan's Upper East Side to purchase his new high-tech toy. It would be another five hours before he could get it fully working. "I haven't figured out how to use this thing properly," Kroll told TIME at the end of the business day on Friday. Although he was able to make phone calls, when he tried to load applications onto the new phone, he received a perplexing error message stating that applications in his iTunes library could not be installed on the new iPhone for lack of authorization. Other customers were derailed when attempting to purchase or download add-on applications at all.
For many users, efforts to reach technical support added yet another layer of frustration. Representatives for AT&T, the sole wireless carrier for the new device, referred most technical questions to Apple. An AT&T technician informed TIME only of the obvious predicament — that Apple was "experiencing some challenges due to the launch of the new iPhone" — and was unable to resolve problems accessing the Apple App store, downloading applications, or setting up AOL and Yahoo email accounts on the device. Apple's own support lines were so jammed that we were unable to get through until late Friday evening. Meanwhile, instructions on the Apple website for basic functions, such as configuring your email, were confusing and of little help.
Consumers were not the only disappointed constituents on Friday. On a day that should have been a celebration for the company, Apple's stock fell more than 2%. Toward the end of the day, however, many of the early technical problems seemed to have been resolved. By 6 p.m., after retrying several times, Kroll said he was able to download and use the free apps he had selected. Later that night — after an hourlong wait for phone support — an Apple technician was able to walk me through the necessary steps to get my email working properly on the phone. And by midnight I had wirelessly downloaded my first app directly onto the device, without any snafus. I was relieved momentarily, but still disappointed that Apple and AT&T had left so many users adrift on launch day.
They had a guy from Forbes (sp.) on the show and he made an interesting point, it went something along the lines of, "Apple figures that most of their customers are fanboys, and that they can get away with something like this, I mean the same exact thing happened on the initial launch of the iPhone... They should have at least done a server stress test to see if their system was up for it. But people will probably be angry in a few days, maybe a few weeks, but most people will probably still buy the iPhone and other products from Apple."
I mean, I keep seeing more crap come out of Apple, and they must be the top corporation right now that I seriously hate. I mean I like their products, I have an iPhone 8GB and I love it, its the best phone and or Mp3 player Ive ever had... but the way they did things with it was bullshit (see spoiler for mini-rant)
Spoiler (highlight to read):
I mean they released the phone for what, 600? then a few weeks later they dropped the price 200 bucks to 400$ and released the iTouch, if they had the iTouch out in the begining I bet they would have lost some sames, and they probably knew that. Also, its not like Apple somehow brought manufacturing prices down so far they couldnt have put it out for 400$ in the begining. Then a few months after that they release a 16GB iPhone and a 32GB iTouch. Again, they could have done this in the begining but no, lets see how many people we can get to buy this...
And 3G in the iPone? They couldn't have done this shit before? Again, lets get people to buy something, then make that old, and make them buy something new, and then make that OLD.
I would fucking LOVE apple if they would have launched the iPhone 3G in 8GB, 16GB alone with the iTouch 8GB, 16GB and 32GB on the start for 400$ for the iPhone (without the new rate plan)
But Apple says FUCK that, were going to milk them for every cent.
/rant
omfg. My computer locked up because of this shitty SpySweeper, and I couldn't close it because it Locks itself from the task manager, so I though everything I typed after "Fuck that" in the rant was gone, but FF RESTORED THE TEXT!
+10 Firefox. Fuck yes.
but yeah... discuss.
Last edited by GodFather (2008-07-12 02:16:00)
