If they were running on Windows, they wouldn't be down. ;) - John Denver

Well of course, OS X servers can't handle the load. They should have used Linux. - Jake (aka Jawee) from twhirl

actually the credit card machines ARE running Windows. - Robert Scoble

windows really ???? - Raza from Alert Thingy

Seems like a mini-Black Friday - Lois Gray

In Germany everything went smooth, only short waiting (at least at the time I bought mine....) Only they had far too few phones everywhere - Markus Soelter

Yeah. Windows. That's always been the joke...apple stores running Windows paypoint software. - Jerry Chacon from twhirl

Apple store running Windows.. And SJ wants everyone to run Apple! - Muthu Ramadoss

I agree with Lois. This does not look good for Apple or ATT - Jerry Chacon from twhirl

If an Apple service goes down, is it a fail lemming? - Ontario Emperor

From a buzz perspective, what is interesting is that most of the comments are along the lines of "It sucks that the activation is down, but it won't affect my interest in getting a 3G" Nobody seems to take a negative position other than "I might wait a couple days to get an iPhone" - David Thomas

@John Denver - haven't you ever looked at their checkout PDAs? They are Windows Mobile devices, so they probably *are* running Windows servers. - Hillary Hartley

Twitter did raise their API limit. Who knows, maybe Apple is using Twitter. Was anybody asked for their Twitter account details? :D - Manu Ullas from twhirl

Maybe twitter raised the API temporarily to handle the IPhone hype? Might check their blog. - Mo Kargas