Comments on: Crash Differently http://www.2-speed.com/2008/07/crash-differently/ Entrepreneurial Leadership and Management . . . and Other Stuff Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michiel Trimpe http://www.2-speed.com/2008/07/crash-differently/#comment-29165 Michiel Trimpe Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:07:51 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2008/07/crash-differently/#comment-29165 The reason Apple's servers failed became quite clear to me when I heard the following line from one of the first people to buy the iPhone: "I was first in line at 6 AM and when I came back at 4 PM the store clerk told me he had tried to activate the phone every 15 minutes or so for the whole day but just couldn't get through". I bet that that's the parameter they forgot to take into account when doing their stress-tests. It's like having a traffic jam where every car that stands still produces a clone every couple of minutes. The reason Apple’s servers failed became quite clear to me when I heard the following line from one of the first people to buy the iPhone: “I was first in line at 6 AM and when I came back at 4 PM the store clerk told me he had tried to activate the phone every 15 minutes or so for the whole day but just couldn’t get through”.

I bet that that’s the parameter they forgot to take into account when doing their stress-tests. It’s like having a traffic jam where every car that stands still produces a clone every couple of minutes.

]]> By: Michiel Trimpe http://www.2-speed.com/2008/07/crash-differently/#comment-106459 Michiel Trimpe Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:07:00 +0000 http://www.2-speed.com/2008/07/crash-differently/#comment-106459 The reason Apple's servers failed became quite clear to me when I heard the following line from one of the first people to buy the iPhone: "I was first in line at 6 AM and when I came back at 4 PM the store clerk told me he had tried to activate the phone every 15 minutes or so for the whole day but just couldn't get through". I bet that that's the parameter they forgot to take into account when doing their stress-tests. It's like having a traffic jam where every car that stands still produces a clone every couple of minutes. The reason Apple’s servers failed became quite clear to me when I heard the following line from one of the first people to buy the iPhone: “I was first in line at 6 AM and when I came back at 4 PM the store clerk told me he had tried to activate the phone every 15 minutes or so for the whole day but just couldn’t get through”.

I bet that that’s the parameter they forgot to take into account when doing their stress-tests. It’s like having a traffic jam where every car that stands still produces a clone every couple of minutes.

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