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Apple's iPhone 3G Launch Filled With Great Fanfare, Dismay

Apple's new dream gadget sees a less than stellar debut

The New iPhone launch seemed fated for success. After months of anticipation, the day was upon loyal Apple fans. As they camped in their Apple tents outside stores, visions of Steve Jobs delivering them rectangular shaped presents danced through their heads. When they awoke crowds had formed, and their dreams were about to become reality. Everything seemed perfect -- with naught a riot or robber in sight.

As the orderly lines began to shuffle into the Apple stores and get their new phones; that�s was when the problems began. For all its savvy design work, and for all the months of engineering, Apple and its partner AT&T were wholly taken aback by a plethora of glitches that crippled the new phones.

Frederick Smalls, an insurance broker in Whitman, Massachusetts was among the loyal fans, turned angry critics. After trying to get his new New iPhone to work for two hours with no success, he remarked, "It's such grief and aggravation."

As customers bought the new phone, which comes equipped with a higher-speed data connection and a GPS chip, they discovered alarmingly that they could not activate their phones. The culprit according to an AT&T spokesman was a glitch in Apple's iTunes servers that made it so the phones could not be fully activated in store.

Managers told customers patiently to take the phones home and complete the activation process. However, customers found to their dismay that at home Apple's servers were equally unresponsive.

The problem, which some are dubbing "the great iMess", even left owners of the older model of iPhones without service. The old iPhones received a firmware update, which required reactivation. They were similarly unable to reach the servers.

With the phones crippled for hours, only emergency calls could be made. Freelance photographer Giovanni Cipriano, who updated his first-gen purchase iPhone 3G, was not happy. He stated, "It's a mess."

The original cheap new iPhone launched with at-home activation only. With the new discount new iPhone, subsidization by carriers caused AT&T to want to activate in store.

The problems closely followed glitches with Apple's MobileMe service, which launched Thursday. The MobileMe service, which synchronizes a user's personal data across devices -- including the discount iPhone 3G -- would not allow many users to log on.

From there it was all downhill for Apple. Alex Cavallo was among those waiting in New York. He remains an Apple fan, but admits that it was an unpleasant experience as he had to use another phone. After being used to the iPhone, he describes his use of the standard phone as "uncomfortable".

With its attractive line of products, including the iPhone, iPod, and MacBook Air, it certainly has an attractive brand image. As Nick Epperson, a 24-year-old graduate student, who camped out for the New iPhone stated, "Chicks dig the iPhone".

Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12356

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