Heh…exactly. What’s funny is I’d bet a paycheck that the next time something like this happens, the same people will be standing in the same lines and posting the same complaints about the same problems. Like the sign hanging over Jim Jones reads, “Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it”.

My purchase was late in the day and the activation process in the store took maybe 5 minutes without a hitch.

Waiting in line at 3AM, got my phone by 8:30, then went home and went to bed. Woke up at 4 after the hysteria had died down and activated no problem.

My new buddy worked perfectly when I got it. I had all my contacts, calendar, bookmarks, email sync’d into the phone using 3G in a few minutes after leaving the store. And was perhaps making my fellow bus travelers a bit nervous as I giggled a bit surfing around using the bookmarks and catching up on my email letting everyone know I had the new bad boy on the block.

It all worked perfectly.

I’m headed back into it again this morning. Friend of mine is off to get his and I’m off to hopefully get a dock (needs a new dock, can’t use old one, they’d run out yesterday) and keep him company. He’s got Texas Hold ‘em and BattleAtSea on his original iPhone so we’ll be busy.

I feel your pain. I went down to the Apple store here in Tampa. It was a madhouse. I actually wanted to buy 4 iMacs and an iphone (I’m setting up an office). They said they could sell me the iMacs, but, I had to wait in the (three hour wait) line for the iPhone. No thanks. I’ll order online.

Well at 7:30PM I was kicked out of the Montgomery County, MD Apple Store for (trying) to browse – though I made a bit of a scene when the security guard put her arm on my chest. They’re having a hard, hard time with crowd control which is pretty crazy 12 hours after launch. (I’d say at least 100 people in line.)

Fortunately Me.Com seems to be up. It’s slow though. Kinda like my v2.0 software on my gen 1 iPhone – too bad, since that was a driving force in moving off WinMo.

However, now that things are working, I’m happy.

The people I know complaining aren’t 3G iPhone users. They’re just existing users who woke up today expecting to be able to make phone calls.

I was going to post about the whining, but decided wtf, I have better things to do. This happened the FIRST TIME too. I don’t see people still crying a year later over it! It’ll pass.

I just hope when I can finally get mine, it’ll go smoothly. Or I’ll cry like a baby! Hah!

I just want the 2.0 software for my Touch. Can I get it? NO!

What a mistake I made by sleeping to 8:00 A.M. getting a CUPPA and reading the morning newspaper. Some days it Does pay to get your sleep.

Haha, best post I’ve heard about this yet. Sums it up perfectly…

D, I don’t think the Apple fanboys are capable of making that admission. They’ll somehow try to blame this on Microsoft.

I wonder where the blame will land. I hear many people blaming ATT, then I read the same thing is happening for O2 customers in the UK, and Rodgers in Canada. The chance of it being an iTunes issue are high. Mac fanboys admit Apple is just another company, not perfect.