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100,000 iPhones Overwhelm Activation Server

Posted by timothy on from the cap'n-we're-under-attack dept.

dstates writes "What happens when Apple ships 100,000 iPhone 4S in a day? Answer, 100,000 users all try to activate their new phones. AT&T's activation servers are struggling under the load. Apparently Verizon and Sprint are doing a better job keeping up with the load." Adds an anonymous optimist: "The solution? Call AT&T by dialing 611 and talking to an operator to perform a manual activation with your IMEI and SIM card #, works every time!"

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  1. Haven't we heard this before? by bl4nk · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    First it's, "you're holding it wrong," now it's, "you're activating it wrong".

    Can't blame this one on Steve.

  2. conspicuous consumption by geekoid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Seriously, that's all this had become. They had a top notch cool phone, but now it's par, if not lagging behind many android devises. SO technology isn't the reason people buy them

    I was at the mall, huge line, probably 150 people to get into the Apple store. Not 50 feet away is an AT&T store, also selling them. No Line.
    I swung buy Best Buy, no line.

    So, people are clearly getting them as a status symbol.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption

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