The iPhone 3G is plagued
Like the Bubonic plague, the iPhone 3G has some pretty intense issues that would get new iPhone 3G owners stomping their foot and wanting to claw the eyeballs out an Apple staff. Lines after lines of people awaited their turn, like the slow death of the Bubonic affliction, to try to get their iPhone activated. AT&T have acknowledged that there is an issue with syncing their iPhone to iTunes and a multi-folds of issues that any well respected, well tested gadget should not face. When the iPhone was released last year, it had the same issues surfaced as well. Ironic?
Apple’s iPhone 3G launch has become a stressful day of failed activations, mirroring activation issues during the original iPhone launch last year, accounts indicate. The 2007 launch saw AT&T servers go down in a flood of activations; this year AT&T says that there has been a global problem with Apple’s iTunes servers that prevents phones from being fully activated in-store, as had been planned. Customers have been told to finish activating their phones at home, but have faced the same problems there, according to Associated Press reports. While both Apple and AT&T are signing up users for AT&T service, neither company is able to complete activation in-store and both are asking customers to finish their activation at home; unfortunately, until the final iTunes activation, the iPhones are not able to make/receive calls.
“It’s such grief and aggravation,” says Frederick Smalls, an insurance broker in Whitman, Massachusetts, who spent two hours on the phone with Apple and AT&T while trying to get his new iPhone to work.
“On the iTunes front, yes, we see intermittent issues there still,” admits an AT&T representative. “We are suggesting to our customers that, after purchasing their new iPhone and voice and data plan, they synch the device later at home while Apple works hard to resolve the iTunes issues.”
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