Trina's page of Blogginess

I woke up at 6:30 this morning (thanks to a certain little cat who was eating in the bedroom). I decided to wake up and check out my computer.

I remembered that today was the iPhone 3G release, and that the new iPhone 2.0 software was going to be available as well for all "old" iPhone users.

I thought I would install the new software update, and play with the new features.

Well, it was not to be....

I opened my Apple Updates to see what needed to be updated on my MacDreamy - the new iTunes update was in there. Cool. That went fine.

When I checked to see if the upgrade also included the new 2.0 update for my phone, I was it wasn't available.

So, I check the Apple iPhone Forum online and discovered that (apparently) thousands of iPhone users had tried to download the update this morning, only to have major problems with the install, essentially turning their iPhones (hopefully temporarily) into useless paper weights (or "bricks" which I think is a much better term).

The theory is that Apple is selling a ton of new 3G iPhones today, and they all need to be activated via iTunes. Plus, you've got the rest of us who have the "old" iPhone trying to install the new 2.0 software update... from iTunes. What's that mean, iTune overload.

From what I've seen on the forums thousands of users are stuck with non-working phones this morning. How frustrating.

I've decided to wait it out a few days until the dust settles.

Some of the new 2.0 features look really cool, but seeing as I've already had my fair share of computer issues over the past 24 hours, I think it would behoove me to wait this one out.

Update
Just found this story on sfgate.com:

Software problems bug Apple's launch of new iPhone

..and this story on MSNBC.com:
The 'iPocalypse' is at hand

Labels: computers, geeks