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Go to an Apple store, as most AT&T stores are out of stock. As with any Apple product release, any remaining inventory is hold up in the Apple Stores, as Bloomberg reports

There were a number of reports of trouble with updating one year old iPhones, mainly attributed to the overload put on the iTunes servers. Results …

Sorry, I was distracted by an iPhone application

The IPhone/iPod Touch 2.0 is flowing smoothly this morning and in case you were wondering:

If you choose to update the software on iPhone, iTunes will back up iPhone automatically, even if it is not configured to sync with iTunes on that computer.

If you choose to restore the software on iPhone, iTunes asks if you want to back up iPhone before restoring.

The original iPhone and iPod Touch are getting the best of the bargain. As for the iPhone, with AT&T bumping up the speed of EDGE a while back, the only advantage of the iPhone 3G is 3G and 3G is only available in major cities. How can a 3G cell phone not have voice dialing? Fortunately, that may be remedied by Fonix Speech, Inc., whom has announced a voice activated application for the iPhone.

The iPod Touch never had it easier. Sans phone, Touch can be everything else, including a business tool.

The iPhone/Touch apps occupy little space. My iPhone 12 3rd party applications occupy 480 MB. There are already a good assortment. The 8 GB iPhone

There are already a good variety available. One of the top downloaded is the free AOL AIM program (free). If you have an account you just put in your user name and password and all your chat buddy’s names automatically appear. There is no push though, till the receiver connects.

An example of how useful an iPhone app can be is related by Nathan, an EMT:

The Epocrates RX pill finder is great. Its fast and makes it easy to identify patient’s medication. its helpful when patients dont tell me all their history i can lookup up their meds and figure out what medical problems they have.

Top paid (6 of top 7 are games)

Super Monkey Ball
Texas Hold’em
Enigmo
MLB.com At Bat
Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D
Cro-Mag RallY
Moto Racer
Band
iBear
Bejeweled 2

All the top free apps are non=games or utilities.

There are more concrete reasons to update or buy a 3G iPhone, the security patches are substantial.

MobileMe seems to be up and running, after what many think was a poor implementation, with the launch of both MobileMe and the iPhone. There were early reports of loss data on the iPhone and presumably their Mac.

This update will only appear in Software Update if you have a MobileMe account. The slightly less cryptic description:

The Mac OS X Update For MobileMe is recommended for users running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4 and includes general system fixes that enhance your Mac for MobileMe.

Update: Mac OS X 10.5.4 does not enjoy the same automatic instant push service that the iPhone or MobileMe does. At present only iSync’s 15 minute intervals or manual push is available, as reported by AppleInsider.

The reader comments point out that subscribed calendars do not get pushed. Hardly enterprise ready.