Apple a Fail Whale on iPhone 3.0 delivery
June 18th, 2009 - 12:28 am ICT by John Le Fevre ( 4 comments )
If your neighborhood geek or office Apple fanboy or girl is showing signs of stress or paranoia today don’t be too surprised. After making lots of hoopla at the World Wide Developers conference that the iPhone 3.0 software update would be available today, Apple became a giant FAIL WHALE when it failed to deliver.
As a separate group of geeks, fanboys and girls spent their night tracking a UPS flight from Hong Kong to Anchorage in hopeful expectation of receiving their new iPhone 3GS’s earlier than scheduled, Apple quietly snuck a message onto its Singapore website announcing the software wasn’t ready to ship.
The amended availability date message has since been replicated on other local Apple website, including Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and New Zealand, as well as finally on the corporate Apple site.
The new software is waited in eager anticipation by Apple aficionado’s as finally their status symbol “iblingphones” will leap from providing some stone age features to what users of other smartphones such as Blackberries, and Nokia to name but two, have enjoyed for a long time plus more.
Amongst the added new features are: Spotlight, Apples desktop searching system; a landscape orientated keyboard, the ability to copy-and-paste text, MMS (without having to jailbreak your phone, voice recordings, A2DP stereo audio streaming, peer-to-peer connections via Bluetooth (but no Bluetooth file sharing)
The 250Mbyte Apple iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update is the biggest update yet for the Apple iPhone 3G and first-generation Apple iPhone, of which an estimated 21 million have been sold to date.
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June 18th, 2009 at 12:45 am
They didn’t fail on delivery. It’s a time zone difference. It’s available now in the USA as promised.
June 18th, 2009 at 2:49 am
Amazing article written inthe futre about things happening today. Total bull of course. Its currently 10:00 UTC in 17 June and the softare is downloading as i type. The 3g S hardware isnt due till the 19th.
Trash reporting at its worst.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Yes but unable to connect to apple server, is what i’m getting. No 3.0 for me as of 2:30 pm pst. Shame Shame Apple
June 18th, 2009 at 6:19 am
“After making lots of hoopla at the World Wide Developers conference that the iPhone 3.0 software update would be available today, Apple became a giant FAIL WHALE when it failed to deliver.”
Yeah, according to the apple website it is now available in the US. Has been since this was written, I checked their site after I saw yours.
Almost seems like you wanted it to fail though… like you were bragging, if you were it would suck to be wrong… After all us “fanboys” updated their phones.