Superman is faster then a speeding bullet, can leap tall buildings in a single bound and is the man of steel, but give him some kryptonite and he gets a little whiny and all the bad guys take over.
Today is the long awaited day that we finally get the iPhone 3G in hand, and currently it has been available for a total of 3 .5 hours on the east coast, and not even an hour on the west coast, and what has at&t done. They have killed the buzz. They have handed the iPhone a big block of kryptonite in the form of activation servers that can not handle the load… SHOCKING.
Remember this post [ Buy your iPhone3G online? Apple and at&t say no way! ]. In that post I reminisced back to last year when the at&t activation servers went down, because they couldn’t handle the load. I don’t want to say I told you so, especially since everyone told you so. No one should be surprised that at&t is too inept to have learned its lesson last year. No one should be shocked that iPhone sales will ONCE AGAIN be halted due to a carrier that can’t seem to pull its activation servers out of their corporates asses.
What we should be shocked by is that Steve Jobs allowed this to happen… again. Do you think that Superman would continue to partner up with Lex Luther after he had given him a big block of kryptonite? NO! So, Steve, what the hell are you doing?
You have created a worldwide race of lemmings willing to stand in line for days for a PHONE… that in itself is a masterpiece of marketing. You have proven that your company is the leader in creating fan boys. Yet, for some reason (money) you insist on forcing us to use a carrier that is so useless and so inept that it may single-handedly be the death of the iPhone.
The next big dissapointment for the lucky few that did get the 3G iPhone activated, will be the limited and frustratingly bad 3G network that at&t has, that will likely crumble under the weight of the new iPhone users.
Apple iPhone 3G makes all the news. Big deal. Comcast getting grief from the FCC over throttling BitTorrent. Microsoft decides to get in bed with Carl Icahn. Great partner or bad idea? Xbox360 down to $299. Look for that vibrating controller too. Misleading solar panel article floating around. Apple MobileMe cloud craps out. That’s just peachy, yes? Konami sues Viacom over theft of intellectual property. 