Activation Problems in iPhone Paradise

Thomas Hawk writes "Unfortunately it appears that some activations of Apple's new iPhone have gone badly. After waiting in line 36 hours I'm still unable to activate my phone. I'm documenting the AT&T circus call by call on my blog. I've had my hold calls dropped, been patched into other users unable to activate their phone instead of AT&T customer service reps, been told that my wife must get a new phone and that the family plan can't work for me. I've been told that the problem is that I'm not putting a new chip into my iPhone in the slot on the left side of my phone when no slot there exists. PR Blogger Steve Rubel has also been documenting his problems on his Twitterstream. According to an unscientific poll being conducted by Engadget about half of the people who bought iPhones have had activation trouble with about 38% of problems still unresolved." Even the folks at MacWorld weren't immune to these issues.

Comments

Re:Maybe they should have waited

[MightyMartian]

Thank you for describing the mental state of your average techno-addict. They're a pathetic lot; picking their noses, popping their zits, repeating Aquateen Hunger Force episodes verbatim and going around spending big bucks on pointless, over-hyped hardware that in a normal world would be paid about as much attention as a big-busted whore in a gay bar. But hey, where would the almost as pathetic investors be without these antisocial losers.

How is it Apple or AT&T's fault?

[Anonymous Coward]

The activation problems are related to switching from competing services over the weekend.

The competition are dragging their heels in an attempt to dull the luster of the iPhone and retain customers as long as possible (it's the weekend).

Dumbasses!

[superbus1929]

Anyone that waited 36 hours in line without doing a modicum of research to find out that most Apple products tend to have a grace period in terms of being glitchy as all get out - and that Apple doesn't give a fuck about your problems, they have your money already - and basically doing it to be the cool kid on their block... they deserve what they got, and I hope the fuckers never work.

Re:Never saw it coming!

[Wookietim]

I guess this is what you get when you are one of those people that line up in front of a door in order to have a lump of plastic before everyone else....