“Prospective buyers in both the US and the UK — at minimum — found themselves unable to order the next must-have Jobsian device due to server overload, either in Cupertino, at the carrier level, or both.”

I don’t know anyone who got through, unless they used the brand new Apple Store app made available yesterday.  Makes you wonder if that record 600,000 orders could have been 6 million instead.

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