IPHONE 3G LAUNCH = FAIL
So far it has been reported that people were bricking their first-gen iphones trying to install the 2.0 firmware, and that activations were taking so long that stores were telling people to “get comfy” or to try and activate at home (which didn’t work either). Neither of those issues affected me (except that I can’t reach my friend Chris because he has a brick with the apple logo in his pocket now).
Now (about noon on Friday) our business AT&T rep called to tell us that they’ve sold out of 3G iphones and instead of shipping our new units today (as promised earlier this week), it would be next week on the 18th at the earliest before they shipped! I was willing to look past the fact that they could only ship them all to one location, which will cause us to have to unbox them, and rebox and reship them to our staff in various other locations (I’m one of those in a remote location). But now it won’t even ship for another week, at best?
FAIL!