Me: iPhone 3.0. Apple Servers: brb.
Apple re-announced the iPhone 3.0 at WWDC ‘09 & it became available today, I usually don’t go for the gold-rush & am rather cool with waiting for a day or 2 before updating something, I for some reason decided to update dad’s iPhone to 3.0 immediately on release. The download was successful only to be greeted with this:
Two observations here:
- The outage was for almost an hour & no major tech site covered it (this article was supposed to be published 5 hours ago, but I fell asleep). Except for Giz who had it this at that time. Now compare this to what happened when Microsoft released Windows 7 Beta & RC.
- Secondly, this is Apple’s hat–trick when it comes to Activation Server going down on update release.
Oh well. Anyway after a long time of trying, the update did run successfully unlike my experience with Sony Ericsson’s update service. I tried out Find My iPhone & here’s what I found:
- The “Display Message” appears instantly on the iPhone.
- Mapping of the phone sucks (at least in India), here’s a screen shot:
This circle has a radius of almost 10-12 minutes walking distance. And I’ve marked where the phone is, ie. where I am. Not impressed one bit.
Manan, does the radius of the blue circle remain of the same size when you zoom in? I mean, if you zoom in and if that circle remains of the same size then you can narrow the exact location. But if the radius gets bigger upon zooming then surely it is messed up. I am just putting a logic.
Nope. That’s not how it works :) The circle expands into a rectangle taking the shape of the frame. There’s no way to narrow down :)
Yessssss.. It IS messed up. Dumb iPhone and dumber Apple :D