European retailers were sold out of the new iPhone 3G before storesin the US even opened

" sold out of 16 GB iPhones by 8 AM, and sold out of all iPhones by
two in the afternoon. "

European retailers sell out at iPhone 3G launch

By Prince McLean
Published: 02:00 PM EST

European retailers were sold out of the new iPhone 3G before stores in
the US even opened on Friday, thanks in part to strong marketing from
Apple's mobile partners.

The initial sales surge not only blew through stores' inventory but
also delivered a knock-out punch to Apple's iTunes activation servers.

The Swiss daily newspaper "20 Minuten" reported that hundreds waited
in line for hours in Zürich in front of the central Swisscom store.
The mobile phone provider opened 100 of its retail stores at 6:30 AM
and served snacks and water to those waiting in line.

20 Minuten iPhone story


In Bern, Swisscom's main shop in the Christoffel shopping center was
sold out of 16 GB iPhones by 8 AM, and was sold out of all iPhones by
two in the afternoon. An employee reported that the store had received
an initial allotment of 3,000 iPhones. There are over a dozen other
Swisscom retail stores in the Bern area, and all were sold out on the
first day. Orange didn't open its stores as early in the morning, but
was similarly sold out of all iPhones by early afternoon as well.

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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:14:54 -0700 (PDT), 4phun <[email protected]>
wrote:

>" sold out of 16 GB iPhones by 8 AM, and sold out of all iPhones by
>two in the afternoon. "
>
>European retailers sell out at iPhone 3G launch
>
>By Prince McLean
>Published: 02:00 PM EST
>
>European retailers were sold out of the new iPhone 3G before stores in
>the US even opened on Friday, thanks in part to strong marketing from
>Apple's mobile partners.
>


Made even more amazing by Inventory originally intended for Canada
having been shipped onto Europe, after Steve Jobs got pissed at Rogers
pricing schemes.

4phun <[email protected]> wrote:

> " sold out of 16 GB iPhones by 8 AM, and sold out of all iPhones by
> two in the afternoon. "
>
> European retailers sell out at iPhone 3G launch
>
> By Prince McLean
> Published: 02:00 PM EST
>
> European retailers were sold out of the new iPhone 3G before stores in
> the US even opened on Friday, thanks in part to strong marketing from
> Apple's mobile partners.
>
> The initial sales surge not only blew through stores' inventory but
> also delivered a knock-out punch to Apple's iTunes activation servers.
>
> The Swiss daily newspaper "20 Minuten" reported that hundreds waited
> in line for hours in Zürich in front of the central Swisscom store.
> The mobile phone provider opened 100 of its retail stores at 6:30 AM
> and served snacks and water to those waiting in line.
>
> 20 Minuten iPhone story
>
> In Bern, Swisscom's main shop in the Christoffel shopping center was
> sold out of 16 GB iPhones by 8 AM, and was sold out of all iPhones by
> two in the afternoon. An employee reported that the store had received
> an initial allotment of 3,000 iPhones. There are over a dozen other
> Swisscom retail stores in the Bern area, and all were sold out on the
> first day. Orange didn't open its stores as early in the morning, but
> was similarly sold out of all iPhones by early afternoon as well.

yes, apple was certainly a victim of it's own success during the first
day, so the moral is trying to roll out the iphone planet wide, then
also doing the MobileMe transition within the same 3 days, proved too
much. now, everything is back to normal, but too much success can cause
unforeseen problems.

David Moyer <[email protected]> wrote in news:davmoy-09B78B.11050613072008
@news.qwest.net:

> yes, apple was certainly a victim of it's own success during the first
> day, so the moral is trying to roll out the iphone planet wide, then
> also doing the MobileMe transition within the same 3 days, proved too
> much. now, everything is back to normal, but too much success can cause
> unforeseen problems.
>
>

Well, by the time the security server recovers, the stores should have
another tiny shipment for the fanbois.

In article <[email protected]>, Larry
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, by the time the security server recovers, the stores should have
> another tiny shipment for the fanbois.

the servers were working by midday.

Who cares??

"4phun" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
" sold out of 16 GB iPhones by 8 AM, and sold out of all iPhones by
two in the afternoon. "

European retailers sell out at iPhone 3G launch

By Prince McLean
Published: 02:00 PM EST

European retailers were sold out of the new iPhone 3G before stores in
the US even opened on Friday, thanks in part to strong marketing from
Apple's mobile partners.

The initial sales surge not only blew through stores' inventory but
also delivered a knock-out punch to Apple's iTunes activation servers.

The Swiss daily newspaper "20 Minuten" reported that hundreds waited
in line for hours in Zürich in front of the central Swisscom store.
The mobile phone provider opened 100 of its retail stores at 6:30 AM
and served snacks and water to those waiting in line.

20 Minuten iPhone story


In Bern, Swisscom's main shop in the Christoffel shopping center was
sold out of 16 GB iPhones by 8 AM, and was sold out of all iPhones by
two in the afternoon. An employee reported that the store had received
an initial allotment of 3,000 iPhones. There are over a dozen other
Swisscom retail stores in the Bern area, and all were sold out on the
first day. Orange didn't open its stores as early in the morning, but
was similarly sold out of all iPhones by early afternoon as well.

In article <[email protected]>,
"Ben Skversky" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Who cares??

well it is very important to the direction of the cell industry, the new
iPhone is selling extremely well, so it's very likely most other vendors
will fall out of business, so please try and keep up with what is going
on.

Larry <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, by the time the security server recovers, the stores should have
> another tiny shipment for the fanbois.

what???

the servers were fine a bit later in the day, it's the initial 8am rush
worldwide that caused the issue... now everything is keeping pace for
40,000 an hour sales.

apple has the best servers on the planet, so it just goes to show how
POPULAR the iPhone has become...

If microsoft was trying to do this, people would be dying off of old age
in the streets before they got to the front of the line

larry, please THINK before you post.

David Moyer <[email protected]> wrote in news:davmoy-B24568.17142213072008
@news.qwest.net:

> apple has the best servers on the planet, so it just goes to show how
> POPULAR the iPhone has become...
>
>

Fetching http://www.apple.com/ ...
GET / HTTP/1.1

Host: www.apple.com

Connection: close

User-Agent: MacWeb/2.0



HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Age: 133

X-Cache-TTL: 467

Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:26:00 GMT

Content-Length: 10537

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Expires: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:36:00 GMT

Cache-Control: max-age=600

Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.10

X-Cached-Time: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:26:01 GMT


I agree! Open Source Apache for Linux is a fine server software.

But, they need some more horsepower in the processors and bandwidth in the
pipe if they're gonna keep doing stupid things like releasing an upgrade
download on the same day as a new device.

Someone at Apple IT should have been screaming bloody murder to stop it....

David Moyer <[email protected]> wrote in news:davmoy-B1C75D.17081313072008
@news.qwest.net:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Ben Skversky" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Who cares??
>
> well it is very important to the direction of the cell industry, the new
> iPhone is selling extremely well, so it's very likely most other vendors
> will fall out of business, so please try and keep up with what is going
> on.
>

Not as long as Apple is playing the old "hold back" game only selling 3000
units per store trying to prevent discounting.

Sellphone sales are measured in the tens of MILLIONS not thousands. All
the 3Gs so far manufactured is akin to a grain of sand to the Sahara
Desert.

Stevies' gonna hafta open up those warehouses and release the product if he
wants to make a pimple in sellphone sales.....

Yesterday's sales represent a trickling faucet on the drinking fountain
overlooking Niagara Falls!

In article <[email protected]>, Larry
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Fetching http://www.apple.com/ ...
> GET / HTTP/1.1
>
> Host: www.apple.com
>
> Connection: close
>
> User-Agent: MacWeb/2.0
>
>
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>
> Age: 133
>
> X-Cache-TTL: 467
>
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:26:00 GMT
>
> Content-Length: 10537
>
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
>
> Expires: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:36:00 GMT
>
> Cache-Control: max-age=600
>
> Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.10
>
> X-Cached-Time: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:26:01 GMT
>
>
> I agree! Open Source Apache for Linux is a fine server software.

apple is not running linux.

nospam <[email protected]> wrote in news:130720081840351431%
[email protected]lid:

> In article <[email protected]>, Larry
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Fetching http://www.apple.com/ ...
>> GET / HTTP/1.1
>> Host: www.apple.com
>> Connection: close
>> User-Agent: MacWeb/2.0
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Age: 133
>> X-Cache-TTL: 467
>> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:26:00 GMT
>> Content-Length: 10537
>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
>> Expires: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:36:00 GMT
>> Cache-Control: max-age=600
>> Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.10
>> X-Cached-Time: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:26:01 GMT
>>
>> I agree! Open Source Apache for Linux is a fine server software.
>
> apple is not running linux.

Which massive Apple server system does Apple run that touts Linux
Apache/1.3.29 (Darwin) PHP/4.3.10 as its operating system on Apple's own
webpage core?

The data above was downloaded by Sam Spade straight off the Apple.com
webpage only because I have no valid address for the servers used for
license/purchase checking of 3G FruitFones. www.apple.com runs on a
LINUX server under APACHE 1.3.29 (Darwin)

http://www.apache.org/

Download it yourself from one of these mirrors:
http://www.apache.org/mirrors/

They MIGHT be running Apache on a Windows Server box, I suppose. I was
trying to be optimistic because Apple loves to tell everyone their OS is
Unix.....(c;

At 13 Jul 2008 17:14:22 -0600 David Moyer wrote:

> apple has the best servers on the planet, so it just goes to show how
> POPULAR the iPhone has become...
>
> If microsoft was trying to do this, people would be dying off of old age
> in the streets before they got to the front of the line

Not really, because the Windows Mobile OS isn't so locked down that it has
to get permission from the mothership before it's allowed to make a phone
call!

> larry, please THINK before you post.


Maybe Apple should think before they "pre-brick..." They're already
restricting sales to customers signing two-year contracts- for what reason
on God's Green Earth does the phone need to contact Cupertino to receive
permission to OPERATE?

nospam <[email protected]> wrote in news:130720082027246011%
[email protected]lid:

> it quite clearly says 'darwin' which is the open source kernel of mac
> os x. the hardware are apple xserve rack mount computers, and they're
> all running mac os x server.
>
>

Wow! Where does Apple sell servers? I've never seen one. All they have
here are little desktop and laptops.

Is there a URL where one can read about Apple server platforms??

Larry <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not as long as Apple is playing the old "hold back" game only selling 3000
> units per store trying to prevent discounting.

apple doesn't allow discounting no matter how many units are in stock...
but apple doesn't allow overstock either so it's not a problem

> Sellphone sales are measured in the tens of MILLIONS not thousands. All
> the 3Gs so far manufactured is akin to a grain of sand to the Sahara
> Desert.

yes, and apple sold about 1.3 million iphones in the last 72 hours, and
your point?

> Stevies' gonna hafta open up those warehouses and release the product if he
> wants to make a pimple in sellphone sales.....

the goal is 1%, and they were at 0.8% when they sold out of iPhone 1.0's
a month ago. so everything is right on target.