Man queues overnight to buy iPhone 3GS... and take it to bits Crazy iFixit.com CEO Kyle Wiens arrived in London from California yesterday with the intention of queueing overnight to ensure he was first in line this morning to buy an iPhone 3G S. No mere fanboy, this guy wanted the handset to being among the first geeks around the globe to disassemble Apple's faster, more capacious …
Due to O2's cretinous upgrade policy and stupid 18 month contract lock in about 90% of people interested in a 3GS are currently stuck with the 3G they bought with six months left on their contract.
This says it all: http://twitpic.com/7shcg
#o2fail
And let's also not forget about the utter-royally-taking-the-piss-rip-off that is their tethering 'offer', where you are seriously expected to cough up £15 a month for the pleasure of using your existing data you are already paying for with a laptop.
Some amusing gruniad quotes from http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/19/iphone-3gs-o2-sales-reports
O2: "Our online shop saw a 150% increase in online traffic in the first two hours."
- wow - that's almost.. half their regular users again.
But my fav:
"O2, which has the exclusive rights to sell Apple's new iPhone 3GS in the UK, said by 1.30pm that it had sold more of the phones this year than it in the entire day last year."
O2: "Our online shop saw a 150% increase in online traffic in the first two hours."
- wow - that's almost.. half their regular users again.
If you're going to be a pedant, at least do it right. A 150% increase is your normal traffic plus 1.5 times your normal traffic which is 2.5 times your normal traffic.
Quote: "it's a tool for communication, not a life changing decision!"
Thank you; at least someone around here still has some sense! My wife and I got iPhones afew weeks ago because we needed phones, and it seemed a nice upgrade.
The new 3Gs came out the next day -- I simply said, "Oh well." I probably would have known something was coming down the tubes if I had been trolling the Apple rumor sites. But who wants to live in that land of fanboi nonsense, victim to Apple's orgasmic press releases? No thank you -- in the end, it's just another **thing**.
Yes: I enjoy the device.
No: It will not change my life.
"O2: "Our online shop saw a 150% increase in online traffic in the first two hours."
- wow - that's almost.. half their regular users again."
Ummm.. NO you'r thinking of a 50% increase 150% increase is 1.5 x more than normal so thats double and then half again.10 users -> 25, 100 -> 250 etc...
AC1 and AC2
You are both right...and both wrong....possibly
It all depend if the O2 Spokesman knows anything about maths and percentages and therefore actually understood what he was saying.
My guess is that he actually did not have a clue what he was saying and although what he strictly said meant 1.5 times more than normal, the actual increase was only 50%
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