Grrrr.....Still No iPhone.... And Alan Asks: "If AT&T Can Join Forces with the CIA, Why Can't They Provide Service to Deploy the iPhone?

I decided not to fight the crowds after all on Friday.

I did go by the store at the Quarry in San Antonio just to see who was there and who was doing what.   I had real work to do and was getting ready to leave town - en route to South Padre Island for the weekend.

I did try to download the updated version of iTunes and like many reported in the media, I too ran into the apparent outage  and overall fuck-up where I guess they (Apple / AT&T) did not allow for scale.

Even the day before, I mystery shopped three stores and when I started asking detail questions about the deployment I got a bunch of blank stares, when it went beyond stating the obvious.

I am sure both Apple and AT&T are not going to have a problem selling millions of the devices.  What is unforgiving to me is that this is, after all, is the phone company who is supposed to have the most advanced communications network in the world, the biggest backbone, the fastest fiber, the best of the best. 

It was not like the scaling issue was going to be a surprise and they did not know that this was going to be in huge demand.

All of this just does make sense, common sense, and just good business sense to me.