Does anyone have their phone activated yet? I don’t and neither do any of my friends. When activation took too long in store, I was instructed to return home and activate my phone. Now I face the same problem with activation at home. Apple and AT&T were not ready for this kind of traffic on launch day. Now I am left with 2 iPhones, none of which have service.

This does not look good. Apparently people at home can’t even upgrade to firmware 2.0 and the problem is afflicting iTunes on an international scale.

So How Did This Happen:
The source of the iTunes crash/slowdown seems not be those buying iPhone 3Gs from Apple/AT&T stores at all but the millions of people updating to the new firmware at home. Firmware 2.0 isn’t like other firmwares in that it needs to update the phone and reauthenticate the service. And in turn, when the servers are slammed and the phone reaches for reauthentication, the server isn’t always there to reactivate the service. This is how some of those newly bricked iPhones are occurring, and a source tells us that even first gen iPhones are susceptible.

Gizmodo has coined the term “iPocalypse” to define the problems Apple’s iPhone customers are facing. Apparently even the iTunes download link was down! This may be the end guys!

If you have gotten your phone activated, please discuss.

UPDATE: Apple’s support line is completely down due to high call volumes. Just sit tight, calling will do nothing but frustrate you. This reminds me a lot of when RIM’s severs went down. People started to freak.

[via Gizmodo]