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New iPod Owner Onslaught Overwhelms iTunes
Billosaur writes "In the post-Christmas rush to power up and use their new iPods, an onslaught of downloaders brought iTunes to its knees, according to CNN. Monday and Tuesday saw users posting message after message about slow downloads and the iTunes site denying them entry. The heavy traffic was apparently more than the system could bear, what with the large numbers of people receiving iPods and iTunes gift cards. Perhaps Apple was underestimating just how successful they were going to be?"
Fuck Creative after they pulled that Patent-crap with John Carmack when he _co-invents_ Carmack's Reverse
On a related note I encountered family this holiday that got an "iPod" but not the Apple one. It was an off brand of some player that does everything an "iPod" does. I kept waiting for them to say it was an MP3 player or in some way acknowledge that it was not an "iPod". It never happened, they literally thought a music player was an "iPod" and that Apple makes the expensive ones.
On that sample size, I can't say it's really going the way of band-aid, Kleenex, or Xerox but I was amazed that it's heading in that direction.
Get a new wife. Perferably someone who can understand that after the holidays, every place(online and BnM) will be busy right after christmas.
At least try to marry someone with a 90 or better IQ.
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Apple do seem to have a nasty little habit of denying that there are problems with their products. For instance
1) iPod Nano screens cracking and scratching
admitted after a long while. Also a class action law suit filed and won.
2) iBook batteries melting
batteries recalled.
3) iPod shuffle generation 1 and the dreaded error 1418
recently admitted with the release of a reset tool, after stoically denying a problem existed
And now they staunchly deny that there is a problem with the iTunes website. All a bit underhand methinks.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Isaac Asimov