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600,000 iPhones being activated on the same day!

ATT (A-Total-Turd) claims 10x more interest compare with 3GS. Yes, please throw out the "We didn't know" card. The same amount of people will try to activate on the 24th, ATT will come back and say Oh, we didn't know all 600,000 iphone will activate on the same day. Total ATT Marketing failure. Don't they ever learn from the 3GS pre order last year.
 
This will be quite interesting. Hopefully, like years past, I'll be part of the first groups to get the new iPhone. That way, I can hurry up and activate it before the servers get too overloaded.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
And this is the reason why apple making people get new sim cards every year is a huge problem. AT&T system and others were designed in mind of most people re-using the previous sim card. This means the number of sim cards they have to active every year is a pretty low number compared to the number of phones they sell.

Apple meathod spikes their system way beyond what it was ever designed to handle so you get tons of problems. The activation problems I will say rest 80-90% at apple fault for not sticking with the standard model. That model is take sim card out of old phone and put it in the new phone.
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It's not Apple's fault, it's AT&T's. Every time you get a new phone from them and it's subsidized, they give you a new SIM chip. It's not just the iPhone, it's every phone I have ever got from them. Always a new SIM chip.
 
As someone who will not be having a phone shipped until July 2nd (at the latest), I hope that June 24th is a COMPLETE disaster for all involved. :p
 
Judging by the cluster-you-know-what yesterday, probably a quarter or less of those 600,000 iPhones will be with their owners on the 24th
 
Ahambone said:
As someone who will not be having a phone shipped until July 2nd (at the latest), I hope that June 24th is a COMPLETE disaster for all involved. :p
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Hahahaha even though I will likely be one of the many frustrated people on the 24th, I had to laugh at this.
 
they should release the pre orders a day early so at least some of the 600K hits the prior day. Say 300K first day, 300K second day. Plus all the walk ins. Say 300k additional? for around 1m activations spread over 48 hours.
 
Idea to reduce Server Destruction

To borrow someone else's idea I saw posted on this forum previously, Apple should either make people queue up to activate their phones OR make people call in reservations (time slots) with their Unique Device ID's. All of this should be done on a first come, first serve basis and really limit the amount of people accessing the servers at one time.

Sounds like the best idea I have seen/heard and the only one that is truly somewhat feasible for everyone.

What do you guys think?
 
If you pre-order at best buy will they activate it there or give it to you to activate at home??
 
Mark Booth said:
600,00 iPhone 4s being activated on the same day! :eek:

Will AT&T and Apple be prepared? Will it take hours upon hours to get our iPhone 4s working? Will MacRumors forum be overrun with negative postings while we are waiting for the iPhone 4 to finish with activation?

Tune in a week from Thursday for all of the fun!

Mark
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Juan007 said:
Should be no problem, right? They know the storm is coming and have a week to get ready for it, right?
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here is my thread on that issue. please let me know what you guys feel

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/939444/
 
I have faith that apples servers will be fine. Remember not every iPhone sold will hit AT&T as there are other countries involved not to mention lots of us like me are just popping existing contract sims in.
 
sarcosis said:
It's not Apple's fault, it's AT&T's. Every time you get a new phone from them and it's subsidized, they give you a new SIM chip. It's not just the iPhone, it's every phone I have ever got from them. Always a new SIM chip.
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I will call bs on that assuming you phones are not iPhones. I am on my 2nd subsidized phone on this acount and on my 1st sim card. My dad is on his 4th subsided phone. My sister 3rd subsided phone same sim. My mom is on her 2nd subsided phone same sim

My brother is the only one who had his sim replaced because of the iPhone.

Do you notice a pattern there. Our sim cards never got replaced. My dads card still says cingular on it.

So the standard model by ATT and others is to replace the phone and reuse the sim card.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
I will call bs on that assuming you phones are not iPhones. I am on my 2nd subsidized phone on this acount and on my 1st sim card. My dad is on his 4th subsided phone. My sister 3rd subsided phone same sim. My mom is on her 2nd subsided phone same sim

My brother is the only one who had his sim replaced because of the iPhone.

Do you notice a pattern there. Our sim cards never got replaced. My dads card still says cingular on it.

So the standard model by ATT and others is to replace the phone and reuse the sim card.
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This is usually the case if you're buying your phones in store. If you have an iPhone delivered to you, it comes with a new SIM card. Once the phone is plugged into iTunes for activation, your line is transferred to that new card.

Of course there's always the option to toss the new one and continue using your current one.
 
Juan007 said:
I think it's a different situation w/ the activations vs the preorders. According to press releases AT&T handled 10x the pre-order volume of 3GS. I think it was reasonable of AT&T to expect 1-2x the pre-order volume of 3GS, but 10x blew everyone away and they were unprepared.

Right now they KNOW 600,000+ people are going to get their hands on an iPhone on the 24th and want to activate it. There is nothing left to chance here, there can be no surprise volume surge. They better get ready for it.
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+1

They know how many people are getting iPhones on the 24th it is safe to assume everyone that gets one will (try to) activate it that day. No suprises! A HUGE challange but also a chance for ATT to not f ###K something up. Hopefully they get their head in the game this time.
 
They come pre-actived don;t they.. so u don;t have to activate it you are just registering it!!!! correct...??
 
djrm said:
Don't forget 600,000 is worldwide (where its being sold) think about the time line...

Japan well ahead, then France & Germany, the UK an hour later then USA 5 hours after that
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yea, the rest of the world is far ahead of us, but the only thing that would really matter would be the load that AT&T can take. Apple doesn't have much to do with activation, they just have to worry about itunes traffic. So the people is usa will only be "competing" for activation with other people in the usa since at&t is not available in other countries.
 
Juan007 said:
Right now they KNOW 600,000+ people are going to get their hands on an iPhone on the 24th and want to activate it. There is nothing left to chance here, there can be no surprise volume surge. They better get ready for it.
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yep
 
I'm glad I live on the East Coast. I can grab my phones, activate, and be done long before the West Coast stores even open.

Theoretically. ;)
 
rwilliams said:
I'm glad I live on the East Coast. I can grab my phones, activate, and be done long before the West Coast stores even open.

Theoretically. ;)
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except europe and asia are totally ahead of you
by the time I get mine, they'll start going to sleep
 
Oh sure, ATT will be prepared.

Just like yesterday.....but worse.

They knew what was coming then also.

Just get your talking in the day before. :rolleyes:
 
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