July 2nd, 2007
Trouble Activating Your iPhone? You Don’t Happen to Have a 64-bit OS, Do You?
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Remember how difficult it was for Apple and Microsoft to get iTunes working on Vista? Well, that was only 32-bit Vista that they got it to work on. Realization coming now? You can’t use iTunes on 64-bit XP or Vista, so you also can’t activate your iPhone.
Now, it does say it in the minimum system requirements specification on Apple’s website. ‘Course it’s buried in the fine print, and I missed it the first time I looked. I would have made it bold print, myself. And if you look in the technical specifications (at the time of this writing; I wouldn’t be surprised if they update it soon), it lists Vista and XP, but says nothing about 32-bit vs. 64-bit.
We Say: Actually, this says less about Apple than about what I’ve been telling anyone who asks me … do not use 64-bit Windows XP or Windows Vista yet. There are simply too many things that do not work yet. On the other hand, if you simply want to activate your iPhone, I guess you could borrow a friend’s PC. 
Dan McCoy says:
If everybody advised people not to use the 64 bit version of XP or Vista a shot, the PC world will NEVER get out of the 32 bit world!
Unless developers see there’s actual people out there using the 64 bit OSes in numbers that are greater than a small handful, the ROI will never be enough to warrant bothering. They need a push!
July 2nd, 2007 at 7:16 am
Scott says:
Um, you can use iTunes on 64-bit Vista.
July 2nd, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Kristina says:
hi i enjoyed the read
August 18th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Bella says:
hi nice post, i enjoyed it
August 18th, 2007 at 6:08 pm