“First off, a quick recap: evidence to date is not helping Apple,” Ionescu writes. “From users, to tech media, and the independent Consumer Reports said that something is wrong. Some iPhone 4 owners have complained of being stuck in iPhone 4 hell saddled with multiple iPhone 4 problems. Steve Jobs is now being directly implicated in iPhone 4 antenna-gate and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) has penned a letter asking Jobs to personally solve the problem. Schumer is calling Apple’s current software fix ‘insufficient.'”
Ionescu asks, “So what could Apple do to solve the problem? Here are some educated guesses tech pundits have put forward ahead of tomorrow’s event.”
Top 5 Apple iPhone 4 press conference predictions:
• The iPhone is selling very well
• Acknowledge the problem, explain iOS 4.0.1 changes
• Free Bumper Cases won’t make the cut
• No recall
• Non-conductive coating over antenna for new iPhone 4’s, free exchange for affected iPhone 4 customers
“Boom! One More Thing: ‘Sounds crazy, I know, but I think something big, or at least biggish, is going down tomorrow,’ writes Darin Fireball’s John Gruber. He has a hunch that Apple will come up with something special in addition to a resolution to the iPhone 4 antenna problem,” Ionescu reports.
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Has nothing to do with the iPhone. I predict Apple will announce new the new Mac Pro! And it will start at $1499 and include Blu-Ray!
A man can dream, can’t he?
‘iPhone 4 Hell’? Really? This exaggeration to an exaggerated degree! Sure, something is wrong, but iPhone 4 hell?
@jocknerd,
You sir, are an idiot.
New Carrier – guaranteed
Could Apple have created the whole antenna issue (only to be resolved by the 4.1 update) to create a media whirl wind so as to have a world wide platform to announce the launch of yet another new product?
If so, Marketing Genius!
Did Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) write a letter to BP as well?
Daniel Ionescu like every other tech puindit is the usual blithering moron, if some iPhone 4 user was in “hell”, just return the phone and get something they’ll really hate, like an Android phone or a BlackBerrry.
I’d like Steve to walk on stage, flick the V’s and walk off again.
Rock on SJ, you know you can do it!
Prediction: Steve Jobs says that Michael Dell was right, that Apple is doomed. Starting monday, the company is closing shop and will give the money back to the shareholders.
@I wonder…
As strange as that sounds…
I want to believe!
Steve Jobs: “Oh, and one more thing… fug all ya’all. We could spend a billion recalling iPhones unnecessarily, or I could scrounge for couch change and buy Gawker and shut it down. I’ve decided to do the latter. Either way, problem solved.”
iPhone 4 product awareness and publicity is at unprecedented levels – this is priceless.
@ Jamie
That 15 seconds would be fantastic.
“4.1.” Double Vs and off the stage.
An Apple version of the Super Bowl Miller High Life commercial. A press conference heard around the world.
My guess is either a new carrier, an iOS apple TV, or the new iPod Touch. Most likely a new carrier or iOS apple TV.
WoW! All this just to get MS to admit Visturd was crap?
@JustMe2
That’s harsh, dude. Jocknerd is simply a dreamer, and it is a nice dream…
I think press conferences for a freaking phone or any technology are pretty silly actually. Apple should just create a well written press release, then intercept any incoming and outgoing e-mail to Steve for a day or so.
Now, iPhone 5 that works without a carrier so you don’t need to pay bills, now that’s worth a press conference.
Something special like free iChat with FaceTime and iChat for Windows. Yes, I expected that already. Apple will become the leading default video conferencing standard over the next year or two. As every iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac and maybe PCs and AppleTV comes on line with FaceTime. Who will be able to stop Apple? Cisco? No, they will have to support FaceTime soon.
Steve will walk out and say….I want to introduce today…..
……the iFone 7
n’yuk n’yuk
If there is anyone with superior knowledge on being “insufficient”, it is that ass wipe senator from New York, Charles Schumer!
I’m surprised that he didn’t write a letter to Apple to complain about the two cameras because now poor Charles is in a quandary, as he can always be found spouting his stupidness in FRONT of a camera! Now with ‘Facetime’ (that defines Schumer in a nutshell), Charles can’t figure out what to do.
I’m getting a little tired of the implications that the problem with the antenna is unknown or that there is some sort of mystery here as to what is actually happening. Even worse is the idea that there are multiple problems with the antenna that they are so severe that everybody’s experiencing some kind of problem in one way or another which, even from the websites trumpeting the problem, we know is not true.
Jobs will accept full personal responsibility and will step down as CEO of Apple Inc.
I actually have very good reason to believe it’ll be an announcement of a Verizon iPhone. I’m highly confident on this. What’s funny is virtually no one sees this coming and the antenna thing will be forgotten.
NBC Today show leads with “What Will Apple Do?” show opening banner headline.
Fat Basterd:
That thought crossed my mind too because of a strange innuendo I heard.