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Apple Caused iPhone 4S Activation Issues?

BC2009 said:
All weekend long Siri has been sporadically telling me that it cannot connect to the servers or to the network. This is even more frustrating when basic voice dialing fails to work because Siri uses the server for voice processing. This is why Apple called it "beta" and this is why Apple usually does not release a marquee feature as "beta". I'm glad to hear your launch weekend experience has been solid, but my wife and I have had a different experience.
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Really? I haven't had any issues like that. Other than when Siri couldn't contact the server because a storm knocked reception. Bl**** Australian storms....

Oh well, I guess using the newest and the greatest you'd expect some teething problems. Right? I would.

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longofest said:
I've had plenty of Siri issues, and I've seen plenty of other people (via twitter or reviews) saying that Siri isn't very reliable.

Some of the issues I've had is it says "I can't find the network" even though I am connected to a perfectly good WiFI signal. Oh, and then there's the issue where it answers a question you asked two times ago. And then there's the issue where it doesn't understand you at all.

Siri has proven itself to be of Alpha quality, not even deserving a "Beta" label in my opinion. It is a really cool concept for sure, but Apple would have better served their customers by holding back - maybe demoing it- releasing the iPhone 4S, and saying it would come as a free update to iPhone 4S users later when it had the kinks worked out.

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Again... seems to be working perfectly for me..... When my local service doesn't fall over. I'm not surprised that this weekend there's been issues accessing the servers. I'm sure Apple will increase the capacity in time, but I wouldn't be too quick to blame Apple. Between your phone and the server, there's an awful lot of points for your data to travel through. At the time that you were having issues with your WIFI, did you turn your WIFI off and use exclusively cellular? I'd be interested in seeing what a different route may achieve.


Actually, Amazon handles that and more during the holiday sales rush (specifically Black Friday). There is dynamically scaling cloud technology out there to handle just such situations, and some companies have employed it successfully (Amazon being one). I can't for the life of me figure out why Apple hasn't figured out how to employ cloud better yet.

I even have heard rumblings that they used some of Amazon's AWS/EC2 for iCloud, yet they clearly didn't do a good enough implementation.
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Again... seems to be working perfectly for me..... When my local service doesn't fall over. I'm not surprised that this weekend there's been issues accessing the servers Imagine how many people are throwing as many stupid questions as they can at Siri. I'm sure Apple will increase the capacity in time, however I wouldn't be too quick to blame Apple immediately. Between your phone and the server, there's an awful lot of points for your data to travel through. At the time that you were having issues with your WIFI, did you turn your WIFI off and use exclusively cellular? I'd be interested in seeing what a different route may achieve.
 
does anyone now where siri comes whit other language?

im from denmark and i whould like to use siri whit danish languages does anyone now when we will see some other languages?
 
Uh oh, does this mean?

Oh boy, all the ignorant posts how AT&T is the worst company ever. LOL Waiting to hear now that Apple is the worst company ever? Ignorance runs rapid here sometimes.
 
RoelJuun said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)

Apple has the activation numbers of all carriers combined.. No wonder.
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They also have a new Mega data center. It was an epic fail of the servers and the software. The code could have been written to allow the upgrade and then activate the cell functionality. iTunes is crappy bloatware and this upgrade suffered from extremely poor engineering design.

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Slurpy2k8 said:
Who cares where it was cause from? Everyone could have predicted there would be activation issues the first day. You have that many people hitting the servers, something has to give, and usually does. What the hell did you expect? But it's over now, so you can move along with your lives. There's not a single company on the planet that can handle the amount of traffic generated yesterday without issue.
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There would have been a lot less issues with better written software. Options include:
Allow the upgrade to complete without activation and do the activation post upgrade.
Rather than have one server farm handle activation have the software run through a list of server farms until it can find one that is available.

Prior planning (servers and software) prevents piss poor performance.
 
The carriers will always be evil and Apple will almost always get a free pass (at least on here).
 
This is the problem with the world now, all me, me, me!

Seriously, I think Apple has done extremely well this launch. When I ordered my iPad it too 3 weeks to arrive, I ordered my 4S nearly a week after pre-orders open and I had to wait an extra day!

Yes the servers are struggling a bit but gees, once everyone stops hammering them by asking Siri if it loves them or to open the pod bay doors then things will ease up.

Can you imagine the whines if Apple put Siri on the iPhone 4 and had all them hitting it? Sheesh!
 
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Celtic-moniker said:
What Siri issues?

I haven't had any Siri issues. I had a brief iCloud password issue, which rectified itself, and only ever showed me a warning, despite still actually getting my email.

No activation issues here either.
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The Siri servers crashed on the first night.
 
No Issues

I didn't have a single issue activating multiple times on Friday. I got a Verizon 4S and it activated in minutes, and ported my number from AT&T in minutes also. I then realized that I hadn't restored my backup so I had to restore and activate again! I also had no activation issue on the second activation. Verizon must have been in better shape than other carriers.:D
 
I've had lots of iTunes store problems in the last few days. Session Time Out. I contacted Apple tech support and they said that it was due to the heavy sales and activations. They asked me to please be patient and try my iTunes store purchases again later (next week?) when things calmed down.
 
I have worked at large computer installations that serve 100K employers. Its nowhere as big as iCloud, but still large installations.

The rumor is that Apple moved from Sun/Oracle servers to HP and MSFT with iCloud. How is Apple going to get MSFT to scale? Less then 1% of world top 500 computers use MSFT since scaling is exponential.

Have used .mac since its release. With the MobileMe transition Apple had a couple of hours of mail problem. With iCloud I have had problem ever since they started the migration in July/Aug.

The activation problem is a symptom of a flawed system.

Apple had an excellent server infrastructure with Xserve/Xsan. Risc servers at PC prices. To bad that Apple don't want to be in the corporate market.
 
Two lines:

Apple activation = no problem

AT&T web servers were the problem. Had to not use AT&T web servers for activation.

Here's how to fix AT&T server problem.
http://obamapacman.com/2011/10/iphone-att-activation-order-number-not-found-error-fix/

nebo1ss said:
You are missing the point when you buy a Nokia or Samsung phone it works out of the box. There is no activation process. This all part of Apple desire for control that this process even exist.
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Nope. Except for a pre-paid phone, most carriers need to activate the phone before it starts working as a phone.
 
tranceme said:
Wrong. Not all Samsung phones come ready and activated. You're broad statement is incorrect. And, the process is different depending on the carrier. Heck, on Sprint, Epic requires going through a few steps. I agree that phone should be ready to roll.
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Verizon and Sprint don't have Sims. They have to do things differently. I guess my statement is based on GSM phones only. Again for gsm you should be able to take the phone out of the BOX and put an active sim in it from any other phone.
 
I got my 4S in late June of 2012 and I had 0 issues when activating! So glad I waited after the rush of first day sales to get it :p
 
compwiz1202 said:
LOL and by 12 years. At least I knew it this time since it mentioned 4S. I do remember that happening though. Was it because Apple didn't give the equipment #s to the carriers in time?
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From what I've read from the older posts, that was part of it and also the sheer amount of people activating at the same time. For the first 8 or so years, they kept reporting the most sold iPhone during launch weekend.
 
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