And that may be the case, but like I said, I was only speculating on
what may or may not be the issue. Do I believe they should have
purchased more hardware or bandwidth? No, if you want it bad enough,
you'll wait for it. You are correct, Apple is the only company with
such services where folks will wait and pile up in lines for a new
product. Hey, it'll all be fine in the end and piss on the media. THey
aren't happy unless they 're trashing someone.
On Jul 12, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Shaun Jones wrote:
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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