iPhone iPocalypse! Activation glitch in new 3G iPhone

The long anticipated Apple 3G iPhone stumbled onto the market today.

Apple copied a page from the Microsoft product release book by dumping the 3G on the market before it was ready.

Geeks and iPhone freaks were promised that when the new 3G (pictured) was released it could be activated before they left the store.

It didn’t happen that way.

A glitch in the new iPhone that went on sale today has Apple scrambling to find a work-around because a software slow-down in iTunes, prevented new phones from being activated in-store, as consumers were promised.

Instead of the promised in-store activation, AT&T employees are telling buyers to go home and perform the last activation step by connecting their phones to their own computers.

A spokesman for AT&T Inc., the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the U.S., said there was a global problem with Apple Inc.'s iTunes software that prevented the phones from being fully activated in-store.

More of the story here.