Appgasm 2008 - (Apple WWDC) - Update for Darniaq - IPhone 3G thread

[Engels]

well you must have dainty pixie fingers. I have potato fingers.

[Prospero]

That wap2 page is definitely faster, but I think I'll stick to the pretty version. I like my shinies.

[Trippy]

Still no Bluetooth Stereo

[Lantyssa]

f13 was one of the first sites I hit when I got my phone, still hit it daily.

Won't hitting your phone void the warrenty?

[Ookii]

f13 was one of the first sites I hit when I got my phone, still hit it daily.

Won't hitting your phone void the warrenty?

Depends if that's the same thing as a warranty.

[Ookii]

The Apple Retail Store is the perfect place to get your iPhone 3G. When you arrive, a Concierge in an orange shirt will direct you to the iPhone bay where you can take advantage of our free Personal Setup. A Specialist will help you choose an iPhone 3G, review coverage maps, select a rate plan, and — best of all — have your new iPhone 3G ready to make calls, browse the web, and receive email right on the spot.

What to bring.
To purchase and activate iPhone 3G, you need the following:*

Credit card
Social security number
Valid, government-issued photo ID
Your current wireless account number and password or PIN (if you’re new to AT&T)

Check availability.
Online, you can check store availability of iPhone 3G. Just return to this page after 9:00 p.m. Thursday, July 10, to check the next day’s availability for any Apple Retail Store. New iPhone shipments arrive most days and availability will be updated nightly.

http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/

What in the hell is this universal password/pin which will allow them to switch over me phone number?  I'll have to figure that out.

[Surlyboi]

You get that PIN from your current carrier. Dial 611 on your phone. (Unless you've got sprint, then you'll probably have to hit a sprint store and find out from them).

And hitting your phone won't void the warranty if you hit it lightly enough. =)

[Trippy]

I'm surprised they didn't ask for a birth certificate. Those requirements are fucking ridiculous. No way I'm giving Apple my SSN#.

[schild]

I'm surprised they didn't ask for a birth certificate. Those requirements are fucking ridiculous. No way I'm giving Apple my SSN#.

See, Ookii said all phone plans require SSN. I'm 99% sure I did not have to give Sprint my SSN.

[Trippy]

I'm surprised they didn't ask for a birth certificate. Those requirements are fucking ridiculous. No way I'm giving Apple my SSN#.

See, Ookii said all phone plans require SSN. I'm 99% sure I did not have to give Sprint my SSN.

They need it for a credit check but I'd rather just buy it from AT&T then rather than give it to Apple as well since AT&T already has mine.

[bhodi]

If I had to pick a single picture, this one encapsulates the iphone in it's entirety:



Here's a kind of useful one, but like most apps, it's priced 3x what it should be. They want $15 for it:




The ebook/text reader that they want $15 for is vastly inferior to the one you can download from the jailbroken app.installer. They seriously need to drop the price on a lot of these, they are way overpriced.

And really reandom. I mean, $10 for an atomic orbital viewer? All the "education" ones are expensive. Some of these are nice but I'm not dumping $200 worth of apps onto my phone.

[MrHat]

lol

the cheering mac people is ++

[Prospero]

They did that. I got my phone on the first day for the original release, and they did in fact cheer and high-five you as you came in and left. There was a whole group of people for whom that was their only job that day.

[Ookii]

The ebook/text reader that they want $15 for is vastly inferior to the one you can download from the jailbroken app.installer. They seriously need to drop the price on a lot of these, they are way overpriced.

And really reandom. I mean, $10 for an atomic orbital viewer? All the "education" ones are expensive. Some of these are nice but I'm not dumping $200 worth of apps onto my phone.

The authors price their own shit, once they find out nobody will buy it for 15 dollars or so hopefully they'll lower them.

[Prospero]

I'm astounded by the number of people charging a buck for a "flashlight" application that makes the screen go white.

[schild]

They did that. I got my phone on the first day for the original release, and they did in fact cheer and high-five you as you came in and left. There was a whole group of people for whom that was their only job that day.

I can't count the ways I hate Apple.

[Lantyssa]

The authors price their own shit, once they find out nobody will buy it for 15 dollars or so hopefully they'll lower them.

Good point, since people buying Apple products are concerned about spending their money wisely.

[MrHat]

13 HOURS and I get to spend $500 on shiney things.

[Ookii]

13 HOURS and I get to spend $500 on shiney things.

SO EXCITED.  Now I'm paranoid I won't get one if I don't wait in line.  I guess I have to see what the stock counts are at 9pm tonight.

[Tebonas]

I'm astounded by the number of people charging a buck for a "flashlight" application that makes the screen go white.

Especially because there is one for free in the store.

[Trippy]

Welcome to the world of Mac software pricing. There just isn't that large an ecosystem of software developers on the Mac compared to Windows and as a consequence much if not most of the good 3rd party GUI software for the Mac costs money whereas on Windows there are tons of good freeware apps available cause there's so much competition.

[Prospero]

I grabbed the leaked 2.0 software link and installed it by hand. All I can say is  Pandora alone makes it all worthwhile, the iTunes remote app is supremely rad, and Box Office is full of win.

[NiX]

My roomie is skipping out on part of his training at work on a very important system to grab an iPhone. I don't like this. He works at my school in a department that oversees the software that runs EVERYTHING.

[Ookii]

I don't like this. He works at my school in a department that oversees the software that runs EVERYTHING.

SkyNet???

[MrHat]

/fail

Went to local ATT store @ 7am.  Waited until 8:30a when the guy came out and said, first 12 people get iphones, rest will have to order, delivery guaranteed in a week.

I was like 17.  Left.  Won't be here.

/sadface

Edit: Sigh, no time to wait in another 2 hour line.  Fuck.  I'm pissed now.

Editx2: Does that iphone stock tracker work on the website? It doesn't give me shit.

[eldaec]

Here's a kind of useful one, but like most apps, it's priced 3x what it should be. They want $15 for it:

Key phrase here is 'kind of useful', that is, useful to people who couldn't figure out how to get from Morgan Boulevard to Navy Yard on their own.


Unfortunately those people can't afford an iPhone because they already spent 130% of their disposable income on lottery tickets, Milk Duds and cigarettes.


OMFG I should change at the station where the two lines cross!

[Tebonas]

Four words.

"People from somewhere else"

Of course, I wouldn't pay money for that, but a subway plan for a city I am visiting for free? Downloaded

[Trippy]

It's useful cause it has times and it has a map and travel times if you ever need to plan an unfamiliar route. Obviously if you take the same route day in and day out always at the same times it's not that useful.

As an aside one of my cousins used to live near that GMU station -- I used it to get into D.C. to go sightseeing.

[bhodi]

Yeah the big deal is the actual train times, not the map.

DC is weird, especially on the weekends, some trains are more than 20 minutes apart. It's nice to know exactly when you have to get to the station and exactly how long it's going to take you to get where you're going if you have to do a transfer.

It's also got delay notification and crap like that, but I suspect it pulls from the DC website so things aren't going to be completely up to date. It's fairly neat, and the company sells all the cities separately for $15.

If it was $5 I'd buy it. $15? No.


I heard from my friend who got a phone that they are having all sorts of activation difficulties. He can't even get his phone to work, it won't activate. Some others are having the same problem.

[MrHat]

Ya, massive activiation problems.

Buddy of mine at an apple store in denver said that they have ridiculous amounts of stock of these things (might be his store only) and that if I don't feel like lining up today, I should check the availability thingy tonight and drop in tomorrow or sunday morning.

Might have to get a white one though.

[Viin]

Which store? Flat Irons?

[Tebonas]

Same problem with updating my old one. At least I presume its the same problem

[naum]

My iPhone is a brick, at the time of this writing… …2.0 update process restored, now stuck, unable to "activate" w/iTunes store…

Fuck Apple and AT&T both…

[Tebonas]

Yeah, same here. Tried again after 10 minutes and it worked. Is now restoring the content on my iphone.

That doesn't make it better though. Amateur hour, Apple!

[naum]

This is even more epic fail whale...
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,39029453,49298124,00.htm

For the crowds of patient Apple fans queueing outside Apple's flagship UK store in London this morning for an iPhone 3G, the feeling of disappointment was epic. According to one disappointed customer, as he left the store without a handset, Apple staff couldn't access the O2 phone network's activation system. Crave heard second-hand from an Apple employee that O2's system runs on Windows and requires Microsoft's Internet Explorer -- clearly the Macs at the Regent Street store weren't running Boot Camp.

Real Fscking Geniuses