O2: iPhone 3G orders reached 13,000 per second

[wildonrio]

This is funny if you haven't read it yet.

http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/53504/o2-iphone-3g-orders-reached-13000-second

[adnurahs]

This is funny if you haven't read it yet.

http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/53504/o2-iphone-3g-orders-reached-13000-second


WOW!! I hope this is not an indication of how things could go here for us who stand in line and can not order on line. I know they are going to keep us updated via their web site http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/ but I really hope the updates are ensuring us that stock will be there for us in the even they sell out on day 1.

[desibhar]

Wow.... thats a lot of demand

[Youngbinks]

I still say the demand in Europe is going to be a lot higher for 3G than it is in the U.S. Also, we have to remember that the iPhone is being offered in most European countries now that will also increase the demands.

[|3are]

Yeah, that's some hardcore demand right there.

I think part of this has to do with just how inexpensive the phone is in the UK. $199 American doesn't go very far against the Pound (or the Euro, that most of England doesn't even use yet). I think a lot of people over there are just thinking, why the heck wouldn't I get this phone?

I don't think it'll be anywhere near the same over here.

[patrickj]

I think that sounds dubious / like nonsense in some places. I'm not great at math, but I think that average per second they gave is way over the top. If if I did the math right, that 13,000 per second would add up to over 7 million in 10 minutes. That's more than 10% of the UK population.

[desibhar]

I think that sounds dubious / like nonsense in some places. I'm not great at math, but I think that average per second they gave is way over the top. If if I did the math right, that 13,000 per second would add up to over 7 million in 10 minutes. That's more than 10% of the UK population.

Read the article more carefully,
O2 has admitted that its online ordering system failed this week - on strength of orders reaching 13,000 per second at points on Monday morning.

In other words, it wasn't constant, and the 13,000/sec rate may not have lasted long. So you can't extrapolate that number over a full 10 minutes.

[patrickj]

Read the article more carefully,
O2 has admitted that its online ordering system failed this week - on strength of orders reaching 13,000 per second at points on Monday morning.

In other words, it wasn't constant, and the 13,000/sec rate may not have lasted long. So you can't extrapolate that number over a full 10 minutes.

Fair enough. Just seems like it still sounds exaggerated, unless it only peaked like that very, very briefly and generally was far, far lower; in which case why mention that number without putting it in some better sort of context.

[desibhar]

Fair enough. Just seems like it still sounds exaggerated, unless it only peaked like that very, very briefly and generally was far, far lower; in which case why mention that number without putting it in some better sort of context.

That instaneous period of time when it reached 13,000 orders/sec was the reason why the website/server crashed. Once it crashed (i.e. couldn't handle website orders), it would be hard to get the website/server back up. I think thats why they used the number. Unfortunately, the bandwidth was not capable of 13,000/sec, and it crashed, regardless of what the average orders/sec are. Got to love technology. They should have put some more error handling just in case the maximum orders was exceeded, so that the server wouldn't crash.

I agree that the article and description is slightly misleading, though.

[eye-Fone]

Statistics like these can be used to persuade anyone on anything.

Remember, "There are lies, there are damn lies, and there are statistics."

[desibhar]

Statistics like these can be used to persuade anyone on anything.

Remember, "There are lies, there are damn lies, and there are statistics."

Actually, statistics don't lie, incompetent reporters do! :wink:

[kevlar08]

This is funny if you haven't read it yet.

http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/53504/o2-iphone-3g-orders-reached-13000-second

iphone does crazy thing to people