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Gary Whitta said:
Hey, at least we don't have to put up with all these problems! :lol What an embarrassing launch.
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Hey, at least we don't have to put up with all these problems! :lol What an embarrassing launch.
Just went to the Apple store on Michigan Ave. in downtown Chicago during my lunch break.
Line is massive going around the block. Employees warning that it will be at least 2-3+ hours to get inside. It kept growing. They say they probably have enough to go around, but they aren't positive.
Fuck it, I'll get it next week.
Line is massive going around the block. Employees warning that it will be at least 2-3+ hours to get inside. It kept growing. They say they probably have enough to go around, but they aren't positive.
Fuck it, I'll get it next week.
My favorite apps are:
Pandora - It's like Yahoo! Launchcast on your phone for free. I've had it run over the Edge network too. Who needs 3G?
Shazam - Identifies any song playing on TV, radio, in the car by taking a sample of the song and matching it up with a database. Once it identifies the song, you can view the youtube video or buy it on iTunes. They need to have it offer you ringtones for purchase. I tried it with a Chinese song by Faye Wong that is not available on iTunes and it identified it, so I'm pretty impressed with this app.
Check Please - Allows you to set total, tip %, # of people for easy sorting out of the bill.
Urbanspoon - It's like a slot machine for restaurants near you. Adjust city, pricing, and style of food, then shake the phone and see where it recommends you go. There's user feedback on it too, so you can differentiate from poorly reviewed and highly reviewed restaurants.
Jared - The serenading singing smiley is so random, I love it. A completely silly app, like TinyViolin, Moo, iPint, and Scratch.
Pandora - It's like Yahoo! Launchcast on your phone for free. I've had it run over the Edge network too. Who needs 3G?
Shazam - Identifies any song playing on TV, radio, in the car by taking a sample of the song and matching it up with a database. Once it identifies the song, you can view the youtube video or buy it on iTunes. They need to have it offer you ringtones for purchase. I tried it with a Chinese song by Faye Wong that is not available on iTunes and it identified it, so I'm pretty impressed with this app.
Check Please - Allows you to set total, tip %, # of people for easy sorting out of the bill.
Urbanspoon - It's like a slot machine for restaurants near you. Adjust city, pricing, and style of food, then shake the phone and see where it recommends you go. There's user feedback on it too, so you can differentiate from poorly reviewed and highly reviewed restaurants.
Jared - The serenading singing smiley is so random, I love it. A completely silly app, like TinyViolin, Moo, iPint, and Scratch.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
Brandon F said:
Wow, a long line even at this time of day? I am hoping a week from now I can just walk in and get one. I am kind of getting paranoid now.
Worm_Buffet said:
Zürich, Dataquest first and than the shopville Swisscom shop. When I left they still had 8GB models and a few white 16GB, but I wanted a black 16GB. I now ordered one online (heinigerag.ch), they'll get their next delivery in ten days and I'm almost on the top of the waiting list. They only got 4 on the first delivery. :lol
Fuck Rogers.
I go to the store at 11:30 AM, no line, ask for an 8 GB iPhone.
5.5 hours later, we finally got Sales Central to put my hardware upgrade through and I'm finally home. I already have an iTunes account so I hope the unbricking is fairly uneventful. Even if the phone turns out to be pure joy in electronic form, I'm not sure if it was worth this.
I go to the store at 11:30 AM, no line, ask for an 8 GB iPhone.
5.5 hours later, we finally got Sales Central to put my hardware upgrade through and I'm finally home. I already have an iTunes account so I hope the unbricking is fairly uneventful. Even if the phone turns out to be pure joy in electronic form, I'm not sure if it was worth this.
Rocksteady33
Junior Member
Still no Touch support?
darkressurection
Banned
Man, the App Store is still pretty busted. I can only get apps about 25% of the time
AndersTheSwede
Member
Rocksteady33 said:
Nope. Sometimes if I click on the link on Apple's site instead of the one in iTunes it will actually give me an activity bar, but it always drops.
teiresias said:
The way things are going, if you were to try to upgrade to 2.0 now, you'd have a brick as the FW update needs to re-authenticate with Apple servers and they're borked.
Be happy that you haven't upgraded yet and stick with 1.1.4 till all of this is sorted out. (hopefully soon. ugh. horribly launch issues. It's officially much worse than last year)
Nameless
Member
Guess I got lucky this morning. As I said, I was somewhere between 20-25th in line and by the time I got to the counter, their(AT&T) system had already began to crawl. The iTunes set up never did yield the completion message but luckily my phone eventually popped up with the message tha it had been activated, even with itunes still syncing. Pretty much everyone else at a check out weren't getting any results.
Funny that waking up 30 minutes ahead of schedule led to me waiting in line for atleast 3 more hours than I did and me getting to enjoy my phone!
3G fingerbangs the battery but I still fuckin love it.
Funny that waking up 30 minutes ahead of schedule led to me waiting in line for atleast 3 more hours than I did and me getting to enjoy my phone!
3G fingerbangs the battery but I still fuckin love it.
darkressurection
Banned
Seems to be working OK now, I think iTunes is just being wonky in general today.Bowser said:
mYm|17| said:
create any aac file (.m4a extension) that's less than 45 seconds and rename the extension to .m4r
then, double click that file and it'll load in iTunes under ringtones.
If you're on a Mac and have garageband, you can select the snippet in there and then, with the bit highlighted, select "send ringtone to itunes" from the "share" menu.
Or, do it the crazy way: buy a song in itunes that can be turned to a ringtone, then pay an extra buck to make a section of that song a ringtone.
GodfatherX
Member
so looks like pwnage tool has this broken already, never used their tool before as ive been a iLiberty+ supporter, but unless iLiberty breaks this by tomorrow looks like ill be using pwnage on 3 different OG iPhones
StrikerObi
Member
FYI for all of you that downloaded the 2.0 firmware for your iPhone OG early yesterday:
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/11...iphone-2-0-firmware-to-official-2-0-firmware/
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/11...iphone-2-0-firmware-to-official-2-0-firmware/
MacRumors said:
Patrick Klepek
furiously molesting tim burton
Here's a question. My company won't allow me access to their Exchange server for a personal device. The phone has to be company-issued for access. Would signing up for MobileMe allow me to push that e-mail to my iPhone in any capacity? It's not clear from the website, and I don't want to sign up for something (even if it's free for 60 days) just yet.
AndersTheSwede
Member
Screw this. I'm just going to download the Ipod firmware and install it myself. Not giving Apple 10 bucks if they are just going to give everyone the jerk around.
eXxy said:
MobileMe will only push your MobileMe (me.com) email to the iPhone. I suppose you could see about getting all of your work email forwarded to your me.com address, but I doubt you'd be able to reply to that email properly since you wouldn't be able to use your work exchange server as the outgoing server via the iPhone.
Patrick Klepek
furiously molesting tim burton
teiresias said:
...sigh. Such a lame policy.
aparisi2274
Member
Eggo said:
Damn this is pretty cool. I just tested it at work, and it knew the song...
Really like this one.
AT&T store I went to completely boned the launch this morning.
-They opened an hour late (Right as I was arriving hoping to have avoided most of the rush)
-Refused to say how many phones they'd gotten
-The line moved around 10 feet per hour
-After my first hour the assistant manger came out and marveled at how short the line was (It would be another three hours before I reached the front)
-After an hour and a half she came out and started coaching the line about how to give a stellar review about her (Fives are all that matter! They just hold one through four against us! And be sure to leave a voice message about how great we were and mention names!)
-Two hours in they started trying to sell us accessories and announced they'd sold out of 16GB white
-Two and a half they announced they'd sold out of 16GB black
-Three hours they finally did a line count and told us they'd gotten 110 for the store, but wouldn't say anything more
-Oh and after they counted the line they wouldn't say at what point in the line that they'd run out
-Every 15-20 minutes the assistant manager would come out and complain to us about how cold it was outside, then walk back inside
-We finally got out of the shade and in some sun, so she came out to tell us how cold it was and that we were wrong about it being warm
-Other shit that I just can't bring myself to continue typing about
-Finally get two people from the door and they announce the guy at the door is getting the last one
-I waited another 15 minutes to finally get inside to just place an order
-Get inside and they walk me over to a kiosk to show me an iphone "Yea, I'm already sold on it, I just want to order one" "Ok, i just wanted to should you some features and less you play around with it." Great! I love playing with a toy that I'm not going to get for who knows how long since you won't tell me anything!
-They tell me to wait for a checkout stand to open
-Five minutes later a woman walks in to pay her bill and when a stand opens they tell me to wait and escort her to it
-10 minutes later a guy waves me up "I just want to order my iphone." "Oh, I can't do that." and I was just about to lose it when the guy next to him freed up and took care of my order
I can't wait for them to call me for a survey so I can tell them Emily is the worst customer service rep I've ever had to deal with and that includes Comcast.
And then I got home and my asshole neighbor has stolen my assigned parking spot. Fuck this day.
-They opened an hour late (Right as I was arriving hoping to have avoided most of the rush)
-Refused to say how many phones they'd gotten
-The line moved around 10 feet per hour
-After my first hour the assistant manger came out and marveled at how short the line was (It would be another three hours before I reached the front)
-After an hour and a half she came out and started coaching the line about how to give a stellar review about her (Fives are all that matter! They just hold one through four against us! And be sure to leave a voice message about how great we were and mention names!)
-Two hours in they started trying to sell us accessories and announced they'd sold out of 16GB white
-Two and a half they announced they'd sold out of 16GB black
-Three hours they finally did a line count and told us they'd gotten 110 for the store, but wouldn't say anything more
-Oh and after they counted the line they wouldn't say at what point in the line that they'd run out
-Every 15-20 minutes the assistant manager would come out and complain to us about how cold it was outside, then walk back inside
-We finally got out of the shade and in some sun, so she came out to tell us how cold it was and that we were wrong about it being warm
-Other shit that I just can't bring myself to continue typing about
-Finally get two people from the door and they announce the guy at the door is getting the last one
-I waited another 15 minutes to finally get inside to just place an order
-Get inside and they walk me over to a kiosk to show me an iphone "Yea, I'm already sold on it, I just want to order one" "Ok, i just wanted to should you some features and less you play around with it." Great! I love playing with a toy that I'm not going to get for who knows how long since you won't tell me anything!
-They tell me to wait for a checkout stand to open
-Five minutes later a woman walks in to pay her bill and when a stand opens they tell me to wait and escort her to it
-10 minutes later a guy waves me up "I just want to order my iphone." "Oh, I can't do that." and I was just about to lose it when the guy next to him freed up and took care of my order
I can't wait for them to call me for a survey so I can tell them Emily is the worst customer service rep I've ever had to deal with and that includes Comcast.
And then I got home and my asshole neighbor has stolen my assigned parking spot. Fuck this day.
Krypton Zod
Banned
Already posted? 3G browsing battery life.
Remote is the most amazing thing ever!!! It's too cool, though has little use for me right now except for parties.
Does anyone know if you can control an iTunes install that is running a streamed library or can it only control an iTunes running a local library? I'd like to be able to control an AppleTV that usually plays a streamed library.
Does anyone know if you can control an iTunes install that is running a streamed library or can it only control an iTunes running a local library? I'd like to be able to control an AppleTV that usually plays a streamed library.
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