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New iPod Owner Onslaught Overwhelms iTunes

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the drowning-in-white-plastic dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I do not know of a single family member or co worker that got an iPod for Christmas.

    Your post was modded as interesting. In theory, my comment should be moderated just as "interesting" as your post as we are sharing the same exact subject and material but with opposite results.

    Let's see if there is a bias in the moderation around here.
    I have a feeling how this will work out because I would not classify one person posting about knowing a bunch of people that got an iPod for Christmas as "interesting".

    Here's one for you. I know of at least 10 people in my family (ages 18-80) that got snow globes for xmas!

    I know tons of people that got iPods this year, +5 interesting
    I do not know anyone that got an iPod [silence...still silence...no moderation)