I'd guess most of the people upgrading on Wednesday were the kind of people who need to have the latest iOS and OS X the minute it comes out, and those are also

I'd guess most of the people upgrading on Wednesday were the kind of people who need to have the latest iOS and OS X the minute it comes out, and those are also the types who will power through and figure it out. From this I take it you sort-of mean the more technically minded serious fan boy? I'm not sure that's true. I'm a huge iPhone fan (not a fan boy :)) but I new it was going to be a pain so didn't bother and slept easy. All of the non-tech staff in our office (work provided phones are iPhones) tried the upgrade - I woke up yesterday and Facebook was literally stuffed with them crying at each other about how to get it to work. Even if it goes smoothly the upgrade path is non-trivial and a bit confusing. Of course this backfired for me :) Because I grabbed a 4S today on my non-work contract (from a 3GS that I haven't updated in months) and have had to power through two painful moments; the upgrade of old phone, and the restore of new phone. sigh (on the positive side, hopefully iCloud will make the next phone upgrade painless)