July 7, 2008 11:06 AM PDT
Demand for iPhone in UK crashes O2's site
At 8:00 AM UK time, the 3G iPhone went on "pre-sale." Within an hour, the site was down because it couldn't handle the traffic. By the afternoon, the pre-order allotment was gone.
Such is the demand for Apple's 3G iPhone.
By some accounts, interest in the 3G iPhone is ten times what it was the first time around. There are already lines in front of Apple's Manhattan store. Of course, they were environmental activists, not Apple fans, but....
At a lower price and improved specifications, Apple may well hit the ball out of the park with this release. See you in line.
Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay. 
Perhaps next pay day ...