iPhone 3G Launch Marred by Server Failure

摘要

Apple should have been careful about what it wished for.rnThe iPhone launch last Friday was marred by a server meltdown after too many existing customers tried to upgrade to the new iPhone 2.0 software and new users tried to activate their iPhone 3Gs simultaneously. MobileMe - a synching application - also was not functioning properly.rnThe event was dubbed the "iPocalypse" by a Gizmodo reader, and the name stuck, even making its way into print in the New York Times, Fortune reports.