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VIRTUALISATION 1m iPhone 3Gs sold, 10 million apps and millions of frustrated customers
VIRTUALISATION 1m iPhone 3Gs sold, 10 million apps and millions of frustrated customers | 1m iPhone 3Gs sold, 10 million apps and millions of frustrated customers |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 15 July 2008 | |
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You see, several amazing things had happened all at once, thus turning Apple CEO Steve Jobs into saviour and saint while seeing his halo slip - all at once. Thus was the iPhone 3G born, in a swirling sea of rabid hysteria over the famed second coming of the Jesus Phone at last. Free at last, free at last to be purchased by the hoards of the deprived for whom grey imported unlocked iPhones were their only previous salvation. For as the iPhone 3G was unleashed unto an impatient world, so was the iPhone and iPod Touch OS 2.0 software, the .Mac to Mobile Me transition and the need for hundreds of thousands of shiny new iPhone 3Gs to be activated, seemingly all at once. Dubbed by Gizmodo as the iPocalypse and others as the iFiasco, the torrential storm took some time to pass, but pass it eventually did, and Steve Jobs looked down upon the world and saw that it was good. The millions who had previously been thwarted by Apple’s groaning infrastructure had received Jobs’ blessing at last. And as the clouds parted and the sunlight came streaming thru, lo! By Sunday, more than 1 million iPhone 3Gs had been sold in 21 countries, with the French forced to wait until July 17 to become the 22nd country to officially receive the Jobsian Papal dispensation of the iPhone 3G. Continued on page 2. |
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