Apple's US online store buckles under iPhone 4 preorders
Fervent fanboi overload
Updated Apple's US online store appears to be choking under the load of iPhone preorders.
As of 10:00am Pacific time on Tuesday morning — the first day that the iPhone 4 is available for preorders — a trip to the iPhone order page where you are asked "Are you a new or existing AT&T wireless customer?" — after a long delay watching the progress spinner — results in new and existing customers alike being greeted with a variety of errors after choosing their purchase preference:
- A long wait watching the spinning progress wheel, followed by the ever-popular "Safari can’t open the page" error message.
- A long wait watching the spinning progress wheel, followed by being plopped back to the "Are you...?" page.
- A long wait watching the spinning progress wheel, followed by one of the two error messages below:
After a rough start earlier today, the UK's online Apple Store seems to be humming along just fine and dandy — at least when being accessed from here in the US. ®
Update
At 12:30pm Pacific time, we again tried to make it through the iPhone 4 preorder process. This time we made it as far as providing our AT&T info — but when we did, we were then presented with the screen below, complete with our ol' buddy the spinning progress wheel. At 1:00pm, we gave up. This problem appears to be AT&T's.
COMMENTS
Good grief
Maybe your mother could promise to buy you a smartphone if you stopped bunking off English lessons and improved your marks somewhat?
Teh englizh llhang-gewage
Jesus Hadron Collider! I thought my footy post was pushing legibility, and giving (my old) grammar a slight spanking.
I am seeing this invasion of the perpetually perturbed stream of unconsciousness drivel creep into general use, and not only on the net. The dyslexic might want to think about adding a disclaimer to distance themselves from the true twits of the typo - I have time for those with problems, no time for those who are problems.
Fair warning
I fully intend to pinch "Jesus Hadron Collider". That is all.
HDMI
At least it has HDMI with multichannel audio this time. I have a Mac Mini as my media centre and having a HDMI box with optical input to output HDMI+audio to the TV is a bit of a faff. Especially with a USB TV tuner hanging down also.
Correct…
It's AT&T, or more precisely, AT&T's interface to Apple that's falling over.
I placed a non-iPhone order on the Apple Store this morning, completely forgetting it's Pre-Order Day, and it sailed right through.
