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iPhone 3G Mania

July 14, 2008 | Posted by Allison as Cell Phones at 8:39 am | Comments »

Okay, so who’s guilty of buying a 3G iPhone this weekend?  I know that I could be found a little on the guilty side for standing in a 7am line on Friday morning, but it was worth it, oh was it worth it.  Well, besides the ill-equipped AT&T staff & the iTunes servers fiasco…..

You know, I think I’m going to have to have a wee bit of a sandbox session entitled, How Could They Have Not Been Ready & Seen It Coming?

You would think with the high volume of sales for the first iPhones that Apple & AT&T would be more than prepared to deal with what we would throw at them.  But no…..after I left the AT&T store at 10:30am, I did not have a working phone & only three people who visited the store that highly-anticipated day actually left with a 3G working phone.  So, what gives?

Obviously we were all having a heck of a time getting logged into iTunes Friday since the system was being bogged down by all the happy buyers, but why wasn’t Steve Jobs prepared for all this?

If I was Steve, this would be my statement, “Despite the sheer success of the initial iPhone as well as the clear successful marketing campaign, I just didn’t think anyone would buy one of the 3G phones.”

Yep, that pretty much sums it up for me.

So, what’s your favorite feature about the 3G?  Besides the fact that you finally got it to work after hours of trying to synch to iTunes….