Or at least it was working until I started getting server retry messages.

Apple Store app now up and working here.

Are we having fun yet?

I felt a grave disturbance in the Force. It was like the sound of millions of customers refreshing and gnashing their teeth all at once

PSA: it’s 315 am EDT/1215 am PDT. Do you know where your phone order is?

PSA: friends don’t let friends order phones drunk. No one likes waking up in the morning with a phone you don’t even know the name of.

Hopes that the Apple Store app would provide a way to jump the order queue have been dashed.

Apple Store still not back up yet at 12:04 PDT. Several prominent media outlets have already declared iPhone 6 launch a failure. #sarcasm

451 clients can now read our analysis of the Apple Event here:
451research.com/report-short?e… . Yankee Group clients here: maps.yankeegroup.com/ygapp/content/…

I can now reinforce this truism after submitting my Apple Event report: no writer loves to write; they love to have written.