Friday, July 11, 2008

Apple turns MS

Software problems bug Apple's launch of new iPhone
NEW YORK (AP) - The launch of Apple Inc.'s much-anticipated new iPhone turned into an information-technology meltdown on Friday, as customers were unable to get their phones working.

"It's such grief and aggravation," said Frederick Smalls, an insurance broker in Whitman, Mass., after spending two hours on the phone with Apple and AT&T Inc., trying to get his new iPhone to work.

In stores, people waited at counters to get the phones activated, as lines built behind them. Many of the customers had already camped out for several hours in line to become among the first with the new phone, which updates the one launched a year ago by speeding up Internet access and adding a navigation chip.

A spokesman for AT&T, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the U.S., said there was a global problem with Apple's iTunes servers that prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store, as had been planned.


Ha ha ha ha, ho ho ho ho...

And everyone has to upgrade to Vista, and it don't work. Apple has prided itself for its reliability over MS. (I know that you can't see me, but I am shaking my head and rolling my eyes in disgust).

I wonder what would happen if all home users and small businesses just quit using Windows or Mac either one... as if. I guess it's that "consumerism" thingy again.

What amazes me is that the FREE operating system is the safest and most reliable of them all and does everything that they do and more... with FREE UPGRADES, too! Yet everyone rushes out and buys this crap and keeps giving their money to the money whores!

And speaking of AT&T, they are sending me email to a non-AT&T email account with all passwords and service changes to another mans' phone in another state! I guess that their new found criminal immunity has assured them that not only can they share other peoples' personal information with the President and his minions, Hell, they can share it with ANYONE!

How the fuck do these people stay in business?????

Simply amazing!