Over the past couple weeks, there have been some significant updates for several Apple products. Most times we see one product receive an upgrade and others in following weeks. This time however, Apple released updates to six products. Visits to the apple page early Tuesday morning were welcomed with the familiar yellow sticky. For those that haven’t seen this before, this is Apple’s way of building excitement and getting everyone to talk. On the yellow sticky is a message, “We’ll be back shortly.”
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So the past two days have been quite exciting for all Apple fans worldwide. I have kept close tabs on my favorite Apple web blogs, TUAW and MacRumors. Both have supplied me with all the info that I wanted and needed to know. They even had a link to download the iPhone 2.0 software a day early. So I’ve been using the 2.0 software for two days now. And I felt that it was kinda buggy and things kept crashing on me, and it was sluggish. Didn’t “feel” right. To no surprise, Apple released the “official” update today, and it’s one number different than the build that everyone had downloaded the day before. I’ve been at work most of the day, so I haven’t had a chance to install it yet, but from what people are saying is that it’s much better, no crashing or lagging. I am downloading it now.
Today the much anticipated iPhone 3G launched. All AT&T stores have sold out, but majority of Apple stores still have stock. Apple has had a rough past two days with updates. First was launching MobileMe, which still isn’t fully operational, and it’s slow. The second glich has been the iPhone 3G activations. This has caused the “15 minute in store purchase-activate-leave happy” idea to become a 45+ minute nightmare. Some people had no phone to use until iTunes activation was back up! As we all know, Apple is quick at fixing issues, and they had the activations back up and going. Some might say that there wasn’t as much hype for this phone, but I think there’s even more. Apple is having to “cap” the lines so that they can close for the night. They have plenty of phones in stock, but the lines are too long to help everyone tonight. They are closing at midnight and will re-open at 8am again to start selling. I bet that most people that don’t get one tonight because of time will stay in line overnight, creating a second day of line waiting for the new iPhone. I believe this will be the highest selling phone ever! I will unfortunately not be able to purchase one in the near future, I have too many financial obligations like a new apartment and needing furniture. I will have to do with my first generation iPhone for a while longer. Maybe a birthday present to myself, haha.
The other update is MobileMe, which has taken much longer than expected. Apple is migrating almost everything that was .Mac to the new MobileMe. The biggest difference is the online experience. They have made the online experience feel much like the native application that runs on your computer from the hard drive. Once it is complete, I can see myself using it often. I am already using MobileMe for syncing. With the new software on my iphone, it allows my contacts, calendars, and bookmarks to remain in sync with my phone, my computer, and the online site. I was nervous at first to start the MobileMe sync on my phone because it erased my contacts before syncing. I was afraid that it would lose all my contacts. But I knew that I had my phone backed up, so it was all good. It worked seamlessly. After the success with my contacts, I turned on syncing with my calendar. Same success. I love it! I can now have my phone and my computer in sync with each other without physically plugging the iPhone in! It’s great.
When Justin gets back to Columbia, I will be all over his new iPhone 3G. I want to compare the speeds of the two to see if the difference is worth purchasing the new one and paying more per month. I’m sure it will be.
