Drew Burden » slammed http://www.drewburden.com A nerd showers you with his opinions. Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:14:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Apple fails http://www.drewburden.com/2008/07/11/apple-fails/ http://www.drewburden.com/2008/07/11/apple-fails/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:53:34 +0000 Drew Burden http://www.drewburden.com/blog/?p=327 The iTunes Store is down, no doubt getting slammed by all those new iPhone activations today.

People can’t activate their new iPhone 3G and current iPhone/iPod touch owners can’t upgrade to 2.0. I’m one of those current owners. In lieu of going in the other room to a computer running Windows to keep trying myself, I have Summize doing the work for me. Here are some interesting tweets that I will see and post until it’s back up:

rem: Re: iPod Touch upgrade – “The iTunes Store is temporarily … FAIL”
pauld: Darn it, iTunes store! Let me give you my $9.95!
smykes: The iTunes Store really is available, really, let me download 2.0 Apple.
scarmen28: ‘s phone is at home without her, forever trying to access the iTunes store. Was late for work, and now I feel naked and scared.
uuill: laughing at the irony of the legitimate path — his iPhone is now unusable (timing-out trying to phone home to the overloaded iTunes store)
dsecrest: iPhone in hand, but not activated yet. NO ONE has activated their phones yet. Accessing iTunes Store…
mattcraig: iPhone OS update requires contact with iTunes Store. iTunes Store down. My iPhone has been bricked. EPIC FAIL. Thanks Apple. Good thinking.
pauldwaite: Until iTunes can contact the store, I can only use my phone for emergency calls. I tried the police. They said this isn’t an emergency!
tompohl: the iTunes store needs a fail whale :)
This is taking too long. I give up.
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