Last year when I bought my iPhone, I tried registering it at the store with an Apple Genius at my side.
This popped up. Amusing as it was, I took a snap shot of it and had been meaning to share it for a while now.
Perhaps it was a time when Apple’s servers were being over whelmed. Nonetheless, it might provide some insight as to what they’re doing.
NOTE: I tried later that evening and it worked fine; my iPhone has been operating just fine.
Ok, so I’m behind reading your blog. The one thing to note is that it discusses PeopleCode. That’s the proprietary tools language of PeopleSoft. I guess we know what they’re using for their provisioning back end, huh?