I’ve been hard on AT&T since the iPhone 3g announcement back in June. But today gives me good reason to be bitter. iPhone in store activation has become, as I predicted, a disaster.
Apple is somewhat to blame for not releasing the 2.0 firmware until 9:15EST, an hour after stores opened on the east coast. Now every store in the United States plus the hardcore iPhone first gen users are all pinging the iPhone activation servers at the same time.
After updating I waiting for the phone to get though to the activation servers for an hour, in the mean time my phone became a brick and I was without a phone, unable to leave for work on time, and unable to call work and tell them I would be late (making up a non-iPhone excuse in the meantime)
But now everything seem to be going fine. I have the 2.0 software installed and it’s restoring my music and videos to the phone. I’m sure people less eager to update won’t have the same problems but for someone who was excited as me to get the 2.0 software (the wait yesterday killed me) this is a disappointment.
I hope those poor Apple Fanboys who are standing in line get out of the stores with their iPhone 3G sometime this month.
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