Analyst Claims Design Fix for iPhone 4 Signal Issue Being Deployed

[marksman]

By your estimate:
10 minutes x 3 Million Phones = 30 Million Minutes
30 Million / 60 = 500,000 Hours
500,000/ 24 Hrs = 20,833.333 Days
20,833.333 days/ 365 = 57.077 Years

Times that buy the hourly wage of technicians?

Sounds reasonable. Not going to happen.


Not going to happen!

If each tech made 100k per year, that would be less than 6 million dollars. Cheaper than giving everyone free bumpers.

 

[aliensporebomb]

Ah!

Can someone please tell me WHY we are always talking ONLY about the antenna issue?

How about the PROXIMITY SENSOR problem?

I hang up on people with my face all day. I dial numbers with my face all the time.

THIS IS JUST AS BIG A PROBLEM!

Tell the truth. You have a prehensile third hand attached to your face that does that.

Sent from my iPad x94

 

[aliensporebomb]

Thinking...

Ashok Kumar was a broker at Piper Jaffray when I worked there in I.T.

I don't remember him focusing on Apple very much at all but the guy was a huge star in the securities industry, making lots of money and appearing on
things like CNBC's "SquawkBox".

The real Apple guy at Piper was/is Gene Munster but I wonder if this is hooey Kumar is parroting from someone else, or just something he's pulling out of his hat or is it actual real information provided by unknown sources?

We'll know tomorrow.

All I know is: I don't WANT a less capable iPhone 4 rev 2 held in reserve.

I have had my iPhone4 for 16 days now and in that time I have had exactly TWO dropped calls. One was taken out of the Twin Cities area near Stillwater out in the sticks. The second I was on the floor of a server room closet - could have happened to any phone IMO.

I've had calls in the 45 minutes to an hour range and no problems so....

I wonder.

 

[Minimoose 360]

Hmm, to temporarily ditch my iPhone or not to ditch...that is the question.

 

[thirtyeyes]

You walk into an Apple store, the guy takes your phone, goes into the back, makes sure the phone has the upgrade to change how the signal bars are displayed, then he watches videos for ten minutes, comes back out and gives you back your phone.

99 out of 100 people will probably not notice a thing. My unscientific survey of four friends with iPhone 4 indicates that none of them have a problem with losing signal and AT&T kind of sucks in certain parts of San Diego.

 

[malim]

Make sense

I think those insulation thingy make sense... Just putting an insulation material on the joint of two part look promising.

Can't wait for white iPhone 4. I don't mind waiting a bit longer as to make sure that the next batch of iPhone 4 will be fix.

 

[BC2009]

I agree with most of what you said except how they handled it. You even point out... this is week #3 for the phone even being out there. Seems to me like they did it right... don't worry about the press and worry about finding out what the real problem is and come up with a cost effective fix. Then come back and let us know.

If Apple would have come out in week one and said "oh crap, there's a design flaw and we need to fix it" sure we would have felt better, but phone sales would have come to a screeching halt. Now, if you're not sure if you can fix it with SW updates or have to do a recall, you're going to keep the sales going and focus on the fix.

Remember... most of the negative press has been perpetuated by people that don't even own the darn phone. There's been a lot of humors and false statements floating around.

Personally... I'm just glad to see there is a press conference tomorrow and looks like we'll know soon what our options are. At least they reacted fast to one of the hottest selling products ever.

True enough -- and it is also true that the issue seem to be limited to a minority of customers. So maybe this was the only way they could handle it. I just know it is frustrating when you call for tech support and they blow you off. And while I have not been able to witness the issue first hand (in fact all first-hand evidence has been to the contrary with 3 different phones in 3 locations with all 3 owners of those phones loving them). Despite that I am sure some folks are having a real issue and blowing them off at tech support is not too good for customer loyalty.

 

[tzeshan]

No Design Fix

Scott Moritz and Ashok Kumar are not credible any more.