Overloaded Apple servers frustrate iPhone users

It would appear that Microsoft isn't the only company that can be surprised by overloaded servers. This time, legions of Apple fans eager to upgrade to the highly-anticipated iPhone 3.0 software slowed Apple's activation servers to a crawl. Surely a simple activation process can't be so hard to do properly?

While I noticed only a few iPhone friends gushing over successful iPhone 3.0 updates on Twitter, Alan Milford over at CBS Interactive in London apparently had a different experience, grousing: "Apple should have their own Twitter server on software release day, so all the fanboys can spam each other without bothering the rest of us."

For more on this story:
- check out this article at Network World

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