It’s the day after the iPhone 3G launch and I have an iPhone 3G. The task of actually obtaining one wasn’t quite as simple as that sentence, though. I decided to not sleep yesterday. I figured I could leave the house by about 6:40 to get to the Oak Brook Center Apple Store by 7am which should be fine. There was a line, of course, but I figured.. maybe 2 hours after they open, I should have a phone. Sadly, this was assuming everything went according to plan. We had some pretty good rain the evening before launch and I guess the Oak Brook Mall lost power which reset all of Apples POS systems for actually doing the activation and transactions. After standing there until about 9am, I decided to try my luck elsewhere. An AT&T store was right down the street so I went there and saw maybe 50 or 60 people in line. Throughout this line, the AT&T people kept us up to date (kind of) on the stock of certain models of the iPhone and I even got a pretty solid confirmation that by time my place came up in line, they would definitely have the white 16GB version left. 11am starts to creep up on us and I’m 3 people away from the door… Sold out. Awesome. There’s no real exciting end of the story. I called a couple AT&T stores and quickly found out that those weren’t the places to be going for and iPhone today. I went back to the Oak Brook mall and figured I’d concede my once ‘OK’ place in line and have to wait a little longer.. Except that the people who were originally standing around where I was in line when I had left 2 hours ago, hadn’t moved more than about 10 feet. Their systems were obviously still down. So to the Woodfield Mall Apple Store I went after calling and getting a confirmation that they didn’t expect to sell out of iPhone’s at all yesterday. I got there around noon and finally left at almost 4:30pm. Just in time to run home, throw on my work clothes and head BACK to Woodfield Mall for work. I was quite tired.