iPhone 2.woe

or Everyone should have seen this coming all along.

Since late last night I've obsessively been clicking the software update button in iTunes 7.7 to see if 2.0 had been released to the general public. Knowing my luck I didn't want to install the firmware that gizmodo posted about yesterday. So I was a good Apple FanBoy and waited to install till Apple told me I could.

So what do I get for this patience? A brick and now I'm phoneless.

I updated this morning around nine and then after restarting the phone I started getting error messages. Most of the time I see a pop-up with the extremely informative error message "We could not complete your iTunes Store request. An unknown error occurred (-4)." That really just translates into - "Hey, we didn't think this thing would catch on, so we didn't prepare for the activation traffic."

Now I've got a phone that doesn't work and NO idea when it will. Hope no one calls to make an offer on my condo today.

Thanks Apple.

*** UPDATE ***

so finally it went through and now I have a phone again!