MobileMe is working now, just a few hiccups and days later.
Heck, a year from now, few will really remember the issues from MobileMe's launch.
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Apple Sells 1 Million iPhones, 10 Million Apps Downloaded in First Weekend
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Heck, a year from now, few will really remember the issues from MobileMe's launch.
I think it would sell a lot better here in Canada if Rogers didn't set up the worst possible plans ever. But wow, one million in a weekend - that's a great feat for the iPhone everyone said wouild fail before release. 
So even with people whining and complaining about the activation issues (hello, the entire world was activating their phones by the time it started going on sale in the U.S.), they're still buying them up as fast as possible...
To my fellow U.S. citizens: stop complaining, people! Enjoy your iPhone as much as I'm enjoying mine!!
And yes, MobileMe is quite fantastic.
To my fellow U.S. citizens: stop complaining, people! Enjoy your iPhone as much as I'm enjoying mine!!
And yes, MobileMe is quite fantastic.
apple store in bullring Birmingham had loads of stock today only no way of selling them because o2's systems where playing up again.
I believe he/she was looking for total paid applications downloaded vs. total free applications downloaded.
It's not that amazing? Then what phone sold MORE than a million in its first three days?
For that matter, how many products of ANY kind have sold that fast?
If it's the fastest phone launch of all times, then hell yeah it's amazing.
So? He didn't say they'd sell 10 million without making any changes to the deals and product line, did he? When it first shipped, it was obvious that there would be changes by the end of 2008, I never understood the idiotic comments that assumed they wouldn't.
Aren't most places completely sold out of phones? If that's the case, then the bottleneck is manufacturing, not activation.
I'm moving to Birmingham this September, where I plan on getting an iPhone. I hope they'll have them in stock then!
I don't know about international stores, but the US Apple Stores aren't anywhere near sold out of the iPhone. You can check each day at: http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/availability.html
Of course, there aren't Apple stores close to everybody, so that doesn't help those customers visiting AT&T stores for purchase.
My local Apple store has over 500 iPhones in stock today, according to the rep I spoke with this morning. The availability checker confirmed that they weren't sold out of any size/color.
Exactly. If Apple smoothes out the wrinkles, it will all be a distant memory -- even to the instant gratification crowd.
The jump from .Mac to MobileMe feature wise has been very nice.
I expect that MobileMe to become even better over the next year.
This morning there were 362
iphones available (yes, that's the entire country's stock combined) in Sweden. They're probably all gone by now.
The jump from .Mac to MobileMe feature wise has been very nice.
I expect that MobileMe to become even better over the next year.
Agreed. I think it's obvious to everybody including Apple that it was unwise to attempt to roll out all of these products on one day. It caused some headaches and generated a bit of bad press, and around here of course the usual amount of hair-on-fire panic. Turns out the products are good, mostly as advertised, and will doubtless continue to improve. And the sky has not actually fallen.
.Mac was a stepchild why not MobileMe
That's a big IF, considering that .Mac was nearly 4 years old and at the time of it's transition to MobileMe, it still had big reliability issues and system performance problems. Many of the issues that plagued .Mac were there from the beginning. Apple did very little to improve .Mac.
We will see if Apple is better with MobileMe.
The best service occurred when it was a "free for life or a couple of years whichever comes first" service called iTools.
That's a big IF, considering that .Mac was nearly 4 years old and at the time of it's transition to MobileMe, it still had big reliability issues and system performance problems. Many of the issues that plagued .Mac were there from the beginning. Apple did very little to improve .Mac.
We will see if Apple is better with MobileMe.
The best service occurred when it was a "free for life or a couple of years whichever comes first" service called iTools.
Heck, I waited 5 hours on Saturday, and cursed the slow-moving line while I was in it. But it's Monday morning, I've had my weekend of fun with the phone, and now all that hassle is long forgotten.
I do wish my phone bill was a bit smaller though. (Curse you AT&T!!!)