I think that they knew what they wanted the turn out to be or at least
what they wanted it to be and wouldn't want to spend extra money for a
product that everyone is going to buy anyway. I can guarantee that no
one that showed up at the Apple store on Friday didn't know that they
would be waiting and in a long line. If this was a new Mac Book Pro
launch I would have been first in line too, just like with the release
of Leopard. If Apple is as great as I know that they are I believe it
was very intentional to not pay for something that would have cost
them thousands more just to activate a phone that they could easily
blame AT&T for. The JESUS phone can do no wrong and surely AT&T is the
culprit.
On Jul 12, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Larry Wanger wrote:
Seriously, you think Apple didn't anticipate the number of phones
they would sell or the number of mobile me or .mac customers they
would have. I doubt that. This is kind of funny. We expect
perfection from Apple even though the normal track record for other
companies when launching products is lousy at best. Consider
Microsoft for example. When they launch things its almost funny. So,
when Apple, a company that usually hits a grand slam when they
launch things has a bit of trouble we all cast doubt on them. Stuff
happens and this is very new and technical stuff.
On Jul 12, 2008, at 4:47 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.
