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iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Wreaking Havoc On Apple Store
theappwhisperer was one of a surprisingly large number of people writing in this morning to report that the Apple store is having serious troubles taking pre-orders of the new iPhone 4. People are seeing the error page or just waiting an insanely long time to get pages back. Just imagine trying to do this from an iPhone in a major market!
In other related news, there is now an Apple Store App in the Apple App Store.
Yo dawg.
If everyone can just turn off your web browsers. I've got all day.
Everyone knows this "delay" is a feature not a negative. It was designed in the best interest of consumers, to give them extra time to think, "Do I really want to spend a couple hundred dollars, or should I pay my rent?" It's like a waiting period.
(I'm just joking of course - though I better say it, else someone might mark me "troll" - it's funny.)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Reports are coming in of Slashdot being flooded with iPhone 4 stories, wreaking havoc with the front page, with people having to skip over an insane number of Apple stories to read something else. Just imagine trying to read this from an iPhone! The demand for the stories surpasses even that of three months of iPad stories, that were necessary before it finally shipped, and makes the traditional "daily iPhone story" seem infrequent in comparison.
When was the last time someone waited in line for a Microsoft product?
15 years ago? Yeah that's about right.
-- BMO
When was the last time Microsoft had a product worth waiting in line for? 15 years ago? Yeah that's about right. ;-)
Okay, Billy. Time for your meds.
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
It's a story because web servers running on OSX hadn't been seen in the wild before.
No No NO! I said to host a web site for the iPhone4; not on an iPhone4!
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Question: What would Steve Jobs call a web site where you can negotiate the best price for an iPhone4?
Answer: iDeal!
Steve, the turtlenecked one: "Web minion! The weak fools we call 'customers' will endure any delay for our superior products, and the media interprets server slowness as a sign of overwhelming demand. Make it so!"
..."
Web minion: *starts iTunes on the Xserve handling orders, the beachball starts spinning*
Steve, the turtlenecked one: "No, you fool! I don't want a slight increase in ping times, I want interminable delays, I want pages that have to be refreshed a dozen times, I want those pitiful insects to beg for our order confirmation screen. Take any measures necessary."
Web minion: "Master, surely you don't mean?"
Steve, the turtlenecked one: "Yes. Load a Flash Applet
Brittish is the Ammerican spelling.
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Is that a cross between a cloud and a cult? Or is that just the name of a band?
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Slashdot should is an attack site.
I accidentally the app store.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Rent boys are professionals: they take money. Apple fanboys are merely sluts :-)
I think you on purpose.