Lost in Tech

The free Wordpress app for iPhone came out earlier today so I thought I’d give it a spin. Pretty easy to use.. What it does do is enable you to save a local copy of your article if you want - or just post straight to your wordpress blog. Once you have made a draught post you can then add photos, set a password or publishing date and make it live. It’s a very lightweight app - making blog posts easy to write one- handed while having a coffee-like I’m doing right now. If you have an iPhone and a Wordpress blog give it a go. It’s free!

A quick update to the previous post - Looks like someone managed to get their orders past the O2 flakey website. Despite being utterly crushed by demand UK iPhone upgraders are now being met by the following image.

Showing that the O2 has sold out of its pre-allocated upgrade stock in under 7 hours! This phone’s a hit before it’s even out yet. What on earth has caused O2 to get demand so wrong? Heads are going to roll.

The O2 upgrade store fell over today shortly before 8AM after it sent out text messages to all existing O2 iPhone owners informing them of the special pre-order page. Supposedly pre-orders for the iPhone 3G were available from 8AM although almost 2 hours with unresponsive pages and failed orders they took the site down for maintenance again. The backup ordering system that was supposed to cope with thedemand also failed miserably.

O2’s web capability  is normally something of a joke, but this was something they could have prepared for properly. They know exactly how many contracted iPhone users they have and could easily have done the sums for server capacity. This is just the demand from the existing iPhone owners, so it looks like a very good year for Apple.  I’ll update this post when it’s back up properly.

Edit: - Still down 2 hours 38 mins so far..

Edit:- site is backup but incredibly flakey - after over 4 hours!