AT&T Server Issues May Have Cost Apple The Sale Of 300,000 iPhones

iPhone — 15 June 2010
AT&T Server Issues May Have Cost Apple The Sale Of 300,000 iPhones

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If sales of last year’s iPhone, the iPhone 3Gs are any indicator, today’s blunder by AT&T and Apple may have cost them the sale of some 300k iPhones.  Last year, Apple sold 1 million iPhone 3Gses in just 3 days.  While it’s unlikely that today’s server issues will deter the majority from buying the all new handset, there will probably be a select few who will just give up and choose an Android device and perhaps even go with another carrier.  The good news is that everyone is in the same boat, at least from what we can tell, meaning that no one can buy an iPhone online; don’t expect them to sell out.  Right now the AT&T site is down for an upgrade and the Apple site says they can’t processor your order right now.  Has anyone had any success ordering an iPhone online?

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  • JWCD

    I had trouble at 5:30 this morning on both the At&T site and Apple site but I finally was able to process the purchase. I had to call AT&T around 8 just to make sure the transaction went through. I almost did go to another carrier and give up on AT&T completely!

  • Mccolp

    I got one 32G around 11 PDT today and did receive a confirmation email.

  • anon

    i got through around 2:40PM PDT and received email confirmation around 4PM.

  • youngluck

    UPDATE: Both AT&T and Apple have completely sold out of pre-orderable phones. Given estimates that they ordered 3 million a month… the potential numbers they moved in less than a day is unheard of.

  • anon

    i got through around 2:40PM PDT and received email confirmation around 4PM.

  • youngluck

    UPDATE: Both AT&T and Apple have completely sold out of pre-orderable phones. Given estimates that they ordered 3 million a month… the potential numbers they moved in less than a day is unheard of.