New Apple Lust Objects

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Melbourne, sunny.

Actually, Melbourne rainy

oh that place

'600 MILES OUTSIDE SYDNEY'

no stock o welz

Tried again, queued for 45 mins, got to THIRD in the queue and the provisioning system packed it in. I should not have got up this morning.

meanwhile, for original iPhone owners ... WHERE THE FUCK IS MY UPGRADE LINK, THEN? freshly installed iTunes 7.7 still tells me my phone is up to date. hmm.

I'm waiting on being allowed to waste money on the firmware upgrade for my iPod Touch.

yeh, the software update page at apple.com says coming soon. wankers, that's a morning's procrastination from work i need to rethink.

it's a big letdown here: they expected tons of ppl (at the midnight intro of the phone in brussels) but not that many ppl showed up. hah. probably the others were all online importing one. my dad mailed me saying it costs 125 euros for an iphone in tokyo. BASTARD! why did he need to TELL me that. *weeps* :-)

my pal at work was off to get his at 8am. no text yet. i fear the worst.

(well, OK. fearing the worst would be, i dunno, he got eaten by a robot shark on the way to the store. i fear "something has gone wrong with the purchasing process", but that's a bit less effective.)

grimly, doesn't this one work that stet posted^

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-4955.20080710.bgt53/iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw

I'm still waiting on DHL. And despite the fact that the O2 site tells me it was dispatched yesterday, the DHL site doesn't recognise the consignment number they've given me. Hmm.

Oh wait, MOTHERFUCKERS. Just found a DHL card that's been shoved through the letterbox despite the fact that I AM IN MY FUCKING HOUSE and NOBODY KNOCED ON THE FUCKING DOOR.

Bunch of shitting cunts!

I heard noises at the door when I was in the shower, dude...

NYAAAAAAAAAAH!

Thought those were just "you in the shower" noises. Intercom didn't go off, presumably cos SHITHEAD builders have left the door downstairs open.

COCK WANK ARSE.

Talked to DHL and they can't redeliver until monday. Best I can do it go to the depot in vauxhaul at 6.30ish tonight and hope the driver's been back before they close at 7ish.

I HATE EVERYTHING.

jim, that is shit luck :(

grimly, doesn't this one work that stet posted^

i want THE PROPER APPLE-SANCTIONED ONE, dammit.

JOIN THE VANGUARD

what if steve jobs comes round and punches me in the balls?

I'm lined up for mine now!

um, new iPhone, not a punch in the balls.

likely story

hang on, this is an unmitigated clusterfuck, isn't it?

O2's servers go tits-up as soon as the UK launch happens

NO FUCKING WAY, this cannot be real ... O2's web signup incompatible with safari?

er, and i can't post links properly. the first link should point to this page instead.

still. i'm not apple. or O2. so fuck it.

AT&T only had six units per store. They did tell me they'd be able to get me a white 16GB unit today. I suppose it'll look pretty good when I'm playing cricket.

white iPhone haters TO THE LEFT, my fey self will look fierce as hale with one in hand.

honestly though what makes the white iPhone that much more effeminate and undesirable?

the attached purse

honestly though what makes the white iPhone that much more effeminate and undesirable?

There was no sarcasm on my part. It will look good when wearing my cricket whites!

Dan Perry does not care about white phones!

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firmware 2.0 officially out, i see.

ok so could i use a japanese iphone here in belgium? (now that i passed my theoretical driving exam i think i am worthy of one. ahahahahaha)

Apple servers nationwide are crashed, all purchasing/activation is at a standstill NICE JOB JOBS

seems like today would've been the day to buy an iphone in-store and walk out without having to activate it
-> http://www.tuaw.com/2008/07/11/in-store-iphone-3g-activation-only-a-myth/#comments

bummerz

AAPL has dropped about 2 and a quarter since activation woes hit Reuters. Funny stuff.

Bloomberg piece just hit the wire. Down another buck.

I just downloaded the iPod touch firmware from a link someone gleaned from an xml file and it appears to be working fine. Didn't even have to do the emergency restore crap, I just shoved it into the correct iPod touch firmware folder on my hard drive, which none of the people on macrumors seem to be able to figure out.

Of course, now I have to recopy all 14GB of my music back on, but that seems like a great use of my work computer's resources.

The stock market is full of idiots. So the reason it's dropping is because their servers weren't able to keep up with people trying to activate every new iPhone at once? That kind of ignores the fact that nearly every new iPhone is getting purchased, meaning the sales are through the roof.

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well i got in line at 4:15 am this morning at the AT&T store. i made a quick drive-by at 11:00 pm last night and saw there were about 5 people camped out. three morbidly obese teenagers wearing "gamer joke" t-shirts (one said "i rolled horde" (?!?)) and two sad looking grown men. i figured that this was the full contingent of crazies so i tried to figure out when the merely sub-normal would show up. i planned to get up at 4 am and be in line by 5, but i woke up at 3:30 am and so i was up and out the door quite early. by about 5:30 am the line had doubled, and by 6:30 doubled again.

at 7:30 there were about 200 people in line and it was wrapping around the parking lot. the staff came out and said they only had 50 phones, none of them black 16 gb. collective groan through the crowd (i wanted white, so i wasn't bothered). there are about six AT&T stores and one apple store in a 10 mile radius of where i live and the AT&T corporate ambassadors (they all had coiffed hair, like ice skaters) said the lines were even bigger at the other stores.

so they opened the store at 8:00 am. i was in the store - fifteenth in line - at about 9:00 am. there were two teenagers in front of me who had showed up with their parents. they sold their spaces for $60 apiece and let their parents go in to buy them iphones (strict one person per phone policy). some people further back in line were pretty enraged about that but i figured what can you do? it took 30 minutes to activate my AT&T account. most of that was the clerk hitting refresh. even the credit card interface was slow: it took around two minutes for the signature window to come up after i ran my card. i got so bored that i let one of the corporate ambassadors talk me into buying a "jawbone" bluetooth headset.

now i am sitting at home waiting for the itunes store to load so i can activate my phone. which is a lost cause, i take it?

Well yep, me too. Managed to get down to the DHL office and pick mine up. Have in im my hand etc etc...but now failing to log into the apple store to activate it, just like anyone else.

Trying hard to stop myself looking at the current ebay rate for un-activated 3G iphones, cos that's very tempting.

in im? it in.

mjtb pls take photo of white one in real life

with the phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh boy, yep, ebay auctions are currently at £450-650. (I couldn't resist looking).

All with a day or two still to go.

re: apple stock

Stocks fall sharply on Fannie, Freddie worries (AP)
AP - Wall Street sank further into a bear market Friday, as investors dumped stocks on troubles at mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and oil's continuing climb into record territory. The Dow Jones industrials slid below the 11,000 mark for the first time in two years before paring their losses.

re: Fannie and Freddie

Yeah, that accounts for the first dip at open.

Activation is working!