Spencer Duclos, 16, a tourist from Reno: The iPhone is the end all and be all of all phones. You don't need anything else.
Many people with old iPhones who tried to download the new software have run into problems. The download is taking a long time, and then some are experiencing the phone freezing, allowing just emergency calls. This comes on the heels of a change inside the stores selling iPhones - people are being told to activate them at home, a reversal of what Apple said would happen in the store. An AT&T spokeswoman said the problem was that accessing Apple's iTunes store to get the new software was proving to be slow but that “Apple was working on it feverishly."
In the meantime, people who have made their iPhones the center of their universe are facing their exestential crisis with a total freak out on Apple's blog. The iPhone began selling around the world today in 21 countries, many for the first time. Crowds lining up outside Apple stores and cellular company stores, they greeted the opening of store doors with cheers.
Getting people through the stores will be today's challenge. Already, there have been glitches. A spokesman for AT&T told the Associated Press that a problem with Apple's iTunes software impeded activating the phone inside stores, as had been expected.
In San Francisco, a cheer erupted when the doors opened at the Apple store on Union Square, where people had spent the night in tents and handed out doughnuts to police officers. A shorter line of people waited outside the AT&T store a few blocks away.
