Could the iPhone 3G be setting records both for sales, usage and consumer complaints?
Bill Snyder at InfoWorld doesn’t mince any words and simply declares it to be a “flawed launch of the iPhone 3G.” “Users in many parts of the country found that the cool handheld wasn’t running mobile applications much faster than the original despite Apple’s claims of ‘twice as fast,’” Snyder wrote. He acknowledges that some of the problems could originate inside the iPhone’s electronic guts, but he also zings AT&T, the wireless company with exclusive rights to the iPhone in the United States. The situation in the Washington, D.C., metro area is telling, he said. “AT&T promised to have some 800 towers ready at launch. It delivered 80, Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg (who lives there) told me during a break at Demo. How is a software fix going to fix that?” Dan Lyons at Newsweek reviewed the underwhelming Apple announcements this week, noting that Steve Jobs slipped a new iPhone fix promise in with the new rainbow array of iPod nanos. “And by the end of this week, Apple hop
