Recent Comments:
Scott McNulty, signing off {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Aug 1st 2008 2:31AM So long, and thanks for all the news
The wrong kind of 1% {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 31st 2008 10:20AM Good.... good... let the hate flooooow through you. With every passing disaster you make yourself more my servant....
iTunes 7.7.1 update now available {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 31st 2008 10:09AM If they didn't fix that, what really was the point of this release?
MobileMe: the case of the vanishing iPhone contacts (Update) {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 29th 2008 3:42AM And what's worse still is that there isn't any pause to get things right, no rollback to get things fixed - we've got new releases on top of new features on top of new releases coming fast and furious.
Note to Apple - STOP, get your stuff running properly before you release another new feature, product, device, etc. Get your cards in order and stop doing your Microsoft imitation of rushing products to market long before they are ready!
Apple/AT&T iPhone 3G launch deemed a disaster {BloggingStocks}
Jul 12th 2008 2:59AM Yes this launch was a disaster complete and total. From ups and downs of MobileMe throughout the day and night, the premature launch of the 2.0 firmware which coupled with the activation servers resulting in the iBricking of generation 1 phones to the incomprehensible incompetence of both AT&T and Apple when it came to the stores and the complete length and stupidity of the process classifies this as a complete and total clusterfuck - period.
There were people waiting in line in Atlanta, GA at Lenox Mall for 10-12 HOURS. One of the common problems being that people who had bundle plans or corporate discounts were forbidden from purchasing their phone in an Apple store - they had to get it from an AT&T store or deal with some 30 minute to 1 hour process with the IRU group. This of course slowed down everyone who was told by the AT&T website that they were eligible for an upgrade.
And then to really seal the deal and illustrate just how completely clueless the folks running this show were, the Activation servers went offline at 1AM EST with people STILL in line and having been in line for 10-12 hours! Since, of course, you couldn't buy the phone in line - people who didn't have an AT&T store in their neighborhood had to drive into a major city and sit for hours with no alternative.
How Apple and AT&T managed to get SO much wrong over a 24 hour period is beyond me.
Apple had a bad day {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 11th 2008 7:48PM HAD a bad day? HAD A BAD DAY? The bad day is still going on for people who arrived at Apple stores at 7:30 AM only to leave the store with a phone at some time near 6PM. This is beyond a bad day.
Come to Atlanta's Apple store and you'll see a bad day. There will be people sitting here well until 1-2AM in the morning.
Mobile Me appears to be up and running {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 11th 2008 12:35PM The clusterfuck strikes back!
Its down for me STILL.
MobileMe is lost (AGAIN) and your lines at the stores will not survive - now witness the power of this fully disastrous and incomprehensible IT clusterfuck!
UK iPhone launch hampered by IE? {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 11th 2008 12:29PM MobileMe is lost (AGAIN) and your lines at the stores will not survive - now witness the power of this fully disastrous and incomprehensible IT clusterfuck!
MobileMe now really, truly up? No. {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 10th 2008 11:15PM I feel for the guys on the MobileMe team. After an hour everything is hectic but you think you're almost done, after nearly 24 hour hours of trying to launch a new service and failing throughout the entire day over and over and over and over again - those guys are stressed the hell out.
My advice to them is to push .Mac back out, acknowledge that there is a SERIOUS issue, be up front about it and launch it in earnest next week after you know that you can actually keep the service up. Right now all that's happening is you're stressing out the team and people are likely making decisions that should be planned out heavily on a moments notice.
Verizon adds 263,000 new FiOS TV customers in Q1 2008 {Engadget HD}
Apr 29th 2008 1:49PM Meanwhile AT&T continues to fumble and bumble its way through the marketplace after farting away billions of granted money with nearly nothing to show for it. They now look to offer an inferior solution for more money. But why shouldn't they, they are a protected regulated monopoly. We can't kick them out and get Verizon to give us better lines.
