So, did you get a second gen iPhone then? Well did you? Over a million people did as those daft early adopters rushed to their Apple Stores and the like worldwide to buy one.
As previously reported, the new version of the iPod/mobile combo works on the faster 3G networks allowing more net capabilities, but not over-the-air iTunes downloads, cos Apple are too stingy to pay the higher rates demanded by record companies for mobile downloads. Or the labels are too belligerent to end the pointless online/mobile download price point distinction, depending on how you look at it I suppose.
A million sales in three days surpassed industry expectations considerably, and is nearly four times what was sold when the first iPhone was released last year, though that wasn't a global release so the comparison is perhaps not relevant.
All of which is lovely though, as you've probably seen, Apple was a bit of a victim of its own success after the servers of it and some of its mobile firm partners were not able to cope with high numbers of consumers wanting to connect their new toys to the mobile airwaves all at the same time, meaning systems went down and some are still unconnected.
Some unconnected UK customers quickly set up a website to rant about the situation - at www.autumnskies.co.uk/iphone - though it seems a large portion of those customers are now connected.