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iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Wreaking Havoc On Apple Store

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sucks-to-be-them dept.

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!

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  1. iPhone 4 Stories Wreaking Havoc On Slashdot by mdwh2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. In the iHQ... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 ..."