NEWS: iPhone sold out online in Britain ahead of its Friday launch

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080708/...e_iphone_uk_dc


Carrier O2 said on Tuesday its website had been unable to cope with
demand, which peaked at 13,000 per second. It later said it had sold
out.

Ron <ronclifford@peoplepc.com> wrote:

> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080708/...e_iphone_uk_dc
>
>
> Carrier O2 said on Tuesday its website had been unable to cope with
> demand, which peaked at 13,000 per second. It later said it had sold
> out.

sounds reasonable, but in the US everyone is going to have GO to an
apple store or att store to get an iphone.

no online sales... dumb, so dumb!

In article <davmoy-102731.17132608072008@news.qwest.net>, David Moyer
<davmoy@world.com> wrote:

> Ron <ronclifford@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080708/...e_iphone_uk_dc
> >
> > Carrier O2 said on Tuesday its website had been unable to cope with
> > demand, which peaked at 13,000 per second. It later said it had sold
> > out.
>
> sounds reasonable, but in the US everyone is going to have GO to an
> apple store or att store to get an iphone.
>
> no online sales... dumb, so dumb!

that will probably change once initial demand subsides. att sells
phones on line and they're shipped already activated.

Ron <ronclifford@peoplepc.com> wrote in
news:g1r7745mv80mm95fktnrjbeuqruv0be8v1@4ax.com:

> 13,000 per second

46,800,000 per hour?

The servers back in Cupertino must have more bandwidth than I expected...
(c;

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in news:080720081746560078%
nospam@nospam.invalid:

> In article <davmoy-102731.17132608072008@news.qwest.net>, David Moyer
> <davmoy@world.com> wrote:
>
>> Ron <ronclifford@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>>
>> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080708/...e_iphone_uk_dc
>> >
>> > Carrier O2 said on Tuesday its website had been unable to cope with
>> > demand, which peaked at 13,000 per second. It later said it had sold
>> > out.
>>
>> sounds reasonable, but in the US everyone is going to have GO to an
>> apple store or att store to get an iphone.
>>
>> no online sales... dumb, so dumb!
>
> that will probably change once initial demand subsides. att sells
> phones on line and they're shipped already activated.
>

Does anyone know how many 3G FruitFones were assigned to the UK?

If it's 500, I can understand them being sold out early. If it's 500,000,
that's a different matter.

A very easy way to make ANY product "sold out early" is to send 10 Smart
Cars to every Smart Car dealer.....making them look like everyone wants
one!

Why is Marketing 101 such a hard sell?