Today was supposed to be a exciting day for Apple and iPhone users but things went south when Apple's activation servers went out and people effectively got bricked iPhones. After waiting hours/days in line on a blistering hot summer day, many first day iPhone customers found that their activations couldn't take place. They were given the iPhones and told to go home and activate. Unfortunately, when they got home, they still had problems. Still, 3G iPhone customers got off easy.
Even more infuriation was felt by those EDGE iPhone 2.0 updaters who essentially killed their phones for the better half of the day when prompted to update by iTunes to iPhone 2.0. The software update happens but Apple needs to re-activate your iPhone. Instead of activations, iT
