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July 11, 2008
iPhone Day heartbreak!
There's been reports all over the net today about at&t's activation servers failing. People who have lined up for hours, and days in some cases are being forced to go home and "activate their iPhone when they can." Ouch!
Some of the reports... Engadget, Matt Asay from c/net, and live reports from Leo Laporte's 24 hour iPhone marathon.
I've been trying all morning to download the iPhone 2.0 software for my iPod Touch, with no luck. Looks like Apple and at&t (and we hear over on ehMac that the same thing is happening at Rogers stores in Canada) didn't anticipate the demand. Perhaps unleashing Mobile Me, the iPhone App Store, and a new iPhone all within 24 hours, across the entire planet, wasn't the best idea. :P
Update: Gizmodo reports it's the iTunes servers that have failed.
Update 2: My iTunes software updater is telling me that my iPod Touch software (1.1.4) is up to date, while earlier it referred me to the new 2.0 software. Looks like Apple is restoring their servers to yesterday's setting, in order to lower the crush on their servers.
Update 3: 5 PM. Still can't download the 2.0 software for my iPod Touch. :(
Update 4: 8 PM. Still can't get through to the iTunes store to download the 2.0 software for my iPod Touch.
Update 5: 10 PM. Yes, I can finally download iPhone 2.0 software. yay!
Posted by Snaggy at July 11, 2008 08:34 AM