Here is another perspective on matters. If I were rolling out a large
project and it was hot and everyone wanted it, but my biggest expense
was the servers, would I buy bandwidth for 1 day for new adopters and
have that bandwidth barely used the following day. Nope I would pay
for a normal load and wait it out. Bandwidth is expensive and for only
one day of excitement it isn't worth the cost. Taking the news report
out of the picture Apple is one of the few companies that can launch a
product and all over the world people are lined up by the hundreds at
thousands of stores to buy a phone. I wouldn't buy the bandwidth for
that type of activation because they want it, so they'll wait a day to
activate. With that being said we no longer have server issues for the
I Phone or Mobile Me, we just don't have full access. This is a
development and deployment issue not server load balancing or
bandwidth issues.
On Jul 12, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Well you may be correct, but regardless, Apple really doesn't want
to be upsetting customers. I'm not sure if they feel it might be a
risk to purchase more bandwidth, don't have the hardware and
software to handle the larger volume of traffic even if a temporary
increase, not doing proper load balancing, or what the situation is.
Either way it's important for any company when performing such a
massive upgrade and rollout of a new product to be prepared to
handle the load. I'm only speculating on why or what could be the
cause since really no one knows except Apple. It could even be an
unforeseen problem they just haven't made public. It's just a bit
unfortunate to hear how the media is making light of the situation
and AT&T isn't really helping matters. I guess Apple probably is
feeling like their face is being a little rubbed into it. grin
On Jul 12, 2008, at 7:47 AM, John Moore wrote:
I agree Scott. I appreciate that they're trying to do this, but
they overdid it. They probably don't have enough bandwidth or
server space for this. I honestly think less people will buy the
IPhone because of the downtime.
Scott Howell
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