No joke. I feel worse for the schmucks that waited in line at the stores to buy the new one, and are now still waiting because the in store activations aren’t working, either.

No, my mistake was in plugging my existing 1st gen phone into iTunes this morning. I had a blaring little alarm that went off in the back of my head as I accepted their prompt to update my iTunes software (that I promptly ignored), and I am now paying the price for it.