Apple has informed select media that the company will hold a press conference to discuss iPhone 4 on Friday, July 16 at 10am PDT in Cupertino.
MacDailyNews Take: Looks like Apple is finally going to grab the bull by the horns and take control of this issue.
As we wrote earlier today: “You either take control of an issue or you get run over by it. We wonder, who has the worst PR people, Tiger Woods or Apple?”
Hopefully, the answer this Friday will be a decisive “Tiger Woods.”
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hmm, I think the obvious solution here is if Apple gives iPhone 4 customers a complimentary rubber bumper. If this truly helps with signal reception, it will surely save the cost of having to recall an entire product line. IMHO.
While I love their products, I do hope Apple steps up on this one.
The iPhone 4 tempting features, HD Video Recording and reviews:
http://ifunia.com/iphone-column/index.html
@ queengreen
> hmm, I think the obvious solution here is if Apple gives iPhone 4 customers a complimentary rubber bumper. If this truly helps with signal reception, it will surely save the cost of having to recall an entire product line.
Apple is NOT going to recall iPhone 4, so there is nothing to avoid If Apple had to give out bumper to make the iPhone work properly, THEN there really would be a need to do recall.
@D
Did you replace a previous iPhone with your iP4?
Did the previous iPhone have any reception problems where you are based in Japan?
Amazing, Apple hasn’t even had the press conference yet and the media ,the chicken littles, and all of the techtards have already decided what Steve is going to say. I guess Apple had better cancel the conference since its content has been dictated by the single digit IQs out there in dum ass land who let Consumer Report do their thinking for them.
Magic word: sun, as in pull your head out see the sun.
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Bitter much?
@queengreen
This will never happen. Apple would never offer a user-applied piece of rubber as a fix. It’d be an “admission of guilt” combined with a cheap-ass un-Apple proposal to fix it. Despite whatever acid-dropping episode led MDN to recommend it as a course of action, neither of these things jibe with the company’s philosophy.
a comment from another forum:
“so apple is going to HOLD a press conference. What if they HOLD it wrong?”
I think they have employed Tony Hayward to head up the press conference. Well I suppose he could take the press’s minds off it.
By ‘finally’ taking it by the horns I’m sure they’re leaving aside the bullshit which most other companies would dish.
The reaction needed to take this long in order to collect hard data, fully understand the issue, and have a clear solution worked out. More than can be said about the Apple-bashing bloggeratti.
What really must be excruciatingly frustrating is the fact that the reception problem is really not all that pervasive during normal use. I got my iPhone the 23rd, one day ahead of schedule. I have had the thing for almost a month. It is a remarkable gadget and this issue is really more noise than anything else.
The most amusing thing is all the idiots that put down a product that they have never used.
I thought for a while I didn’t have the reception problem with either of my v4 phones. Holding them “incorrectly” often does not affect the bars…at least not immediately. However, running a data throughput benchmark while doing it will tell you in seconds that the throughput drops drastically (to nil in my tests). This happens on every v4 I have asked owners to test. I’m not going to assume this would be the result on a all or a majority of the v4’s that have been sold, but it is entirely plausible. The problem with bumpers is that not everyone wants a case. Personally I like the case and am currently using a bumper. Problem solved for me, but that doesn’t work for everyone….and from a product integrity perspective, it does not FIX the phone.
@Jejagua
Yes, but are you actually having problems?
Tests are fine, but it’s the real world that counts. If you aren’t having a problem, does it matter?
Steve Jobs will stand in front of a Keynote presentation with a bar chart behind him.
One bar will be in the millions, a second bar will indicate a count of 3 and be ridiculously smaller than the first bar.
He will say, …”there are 3 phones potentially with this issue. Any questions?”
@leodavinci
Read my post again. It appears you ignored about half of it.
BTW, I agree with your point. I’m fine using bumpers / cases and would never consider using my phone without one. There’s plenty of owners though that don’t want a piece of tape or a bumper.