Friday, July 11, 2008
Apple iPhone 3G
(Mike happy to finally be in the front of the line.)
Mike and I got down to the Pony Village Mall today to purchase the new iPhone 3G. We had no idea what kind of turn out would be in our little town. We were about the 18th and 19th person to wait in line at the AT&T store due to open up at 8:00 am. The people in line were cheery and excited about getting the iPhone 3G in our area. One man said, “Finally Coos Bay is coming out of the dark ages” - something to that affect, I had to chuckle. The store reps came out about 7ish to count the people in line. They were great about getting most people in line all ready before the store opened.
Once we finally got to order our phones, our rep said they were having constant internet downtime due to the traffic on the network. Later we found out that Apple was having issues with their iTunes servers globally. Our AT&T rep was not able to finish setting us up so she sent us home with our purchases, but told us we would have to finish the set up on iTunes. I think she really was overwhelmed and didn’t really know what the whole process was.
Once we got home we were unable to load iTunes for a couple of hours. Once iTunes was online, Mike and I began configuring our iPhones. It went pretty well and we enjoyed playing with our new toys!
Apple-icious!