They have numbers from past product launches and enough data to forecast what their server load will be. It's poor strategy and planning IMO. I'm wondering now, Do I really want my phone on this network if they can't even allow people to order the damn thing without giving us error messages that make no sense?
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AT&T Really Blew It This Time
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They have numbers from past product launches and enough data to forecast what their server load will be. It's poor strategy and planning IMO. I'm wondering now, Do I really want my phone on this network if they can't even allow people to order the damn thing without giving us error messages that make no sense?
Who cares if we reserve the iPhone4 tonight or tomorrow.... We're still ALL receiving it no earlier than 24th.
By some point tomorrow everything will all be better and well all be able to reserve it.
By some point tomorrow everything will all be better and well all be able to reserve it.
Lets say they planned 50%+ last year. And it ended up blowing all expectations and coming in at 250%+.
How is that poor planning?
If you're really concerned about the shopping experience, I'd suggest buying in a month or two.
Looks like your users collect some of the worst memory-hungry apps on their desktops. Hope you don't have to deal with them every day!
And IE? Jeez.
Yeah, well, the fact is they sold out in 20 hours. There is no forecast for that going smoothly.
There is only so much Apple and AT&T can do to prepare for a day like today...they knew it would be busy, they knew their servers would most likely crash. But what do you want them to do? But a couple thousand more servers to handle the load for one day? Not gonna happen.
How did ATT or APPLE blow it????
They sold out of the iPhone within 24hrs!!! iam sure they sold close to 500,000-1,000,000 units!!!
They blew it??? lmao!!!
I would like to sell 500,000 products within a 24hr time frame and consider that "blowing it"
ATT and APPLE cashed in today and the ones who lucked out are now going to whine....
I lucked out, i dont care because i know there will be a ton at the Apple store come the "25th" since they only hold reservations for 24hrs and 1/4 of them are probably not going to show, forget or got it elsewhere.
They sold out of the iPhone within 24hrs!!! iam sure they sold close to 500,000-1,000,000 units!!!
They blew it??? lmao!!!
I would like to sell 500,000 products within a 24hr time frame and consider that "blowing it"
ATT and APPLE cashed in today and the ones who lucked out are now going to whine....
I lucked out, i dont care because i know there will be a ton at the Apple store come the "25th" since they only hold reservations for 24hrs and 1/4 of them are probably not going to show, forget or got it elsewhere.
I couldn't have said it better. You are right on with this one.
AT&T made Apple look bad.
AT&T servers kept jamming all day long, and that cause Apple's servers to look like they were jamming because they couldn't get requests returned from AT&T and so it looked like the Apple website was frozen too. It wasn't; it was just waiting.
Actually ATT's site held up for much of the morning and afternoon. It was Apple's site that was routinely off line throughout the day. Most people ordered their phones through ATT without any problems. That is why ATT sold out of their alotment of phones way before Apple. In fact if Apple had been able to keep their servers online, ATT's servers wouldn't have been overloaded so bad that they eventually crashed.
Think that sums it up nicely. It's looking like demand was just ridiculous, not just in the us but in all countries the iPhone was launching in and not helped by partner carriers not launching pre-orders on the same day so all THEIR traffic went to apple's site as well.
Must admit I'm a little surprised at the general attitude around here recently, seems if some can't get what they want right now it's toys out of pram time.
Oh please. Funny how Apple can do no wrong, and AT&T can do no right in the eyes of Apple victims.
You are over-exaggerating a bit too much to try and get your point across.
Nobody said Apple had to be perfect, Nobody said they want everything to go 100% smoothly....people are complaining about error messages, wait times, etc....things that they have a legit gripe about
If you are unable to handle some legit criticism when it is deserved, the forum may not be for you
