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It’s July 11th, which means thousands of AT&T and Apple stores around the US are working their way through the first day of sales for the new 3G iPhone.<\/p>\n
I showed up at the local AT&T store at 7:15am and faced a line that wrapped around 3 sides of the relatively small building. I’d guess there were about 60 people ahead of me, most of which came after 5am according to the guys at the front.<\/p>\n
16GB black phones ran out pretty quickly about 1\/3rd of the line through, then the white ones went by the time they got to about 8 people in front of me.<\/p>\n
The processing slowed to a crawl about halfway through, as the iTunes activation fell over and exploded about half-way through the line. When I finally got in, they were moving faster by doing all the AT&T paperwork in-store, then sending people home to do the iTunes activation, which is probably where most of the real hold-up is.<\/p>\n
Because the 16GBs were gone, I settled with the 8GB, which I’ll use to see if that’s enough for day to day use. If not, I checked with the store that I can exchange it within 30 days for the 10% restocking fee plus $100 difference once the 16GBs come back in.<\/p>\n
I got out of the store around 11:15. <\/p>\n
When I got home, iTunes was down, which in light of having survived numerous other technology launch days, doesn’t really surprise me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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