Those that say this antenna grip issue is a problem have only their lack of experience and knowledge speaking. For example:
1) If you drive a car on the wrong side of the road and you hit a car head on, it is the drivers fault. It is not the car makers fault for not making a car that automatically moves to the proper lane.
If you drive a car on the right side of the road, and it suddenly just stops, it's because there is a problem with the car, not because you are holding the steering wheel wrong.
2) If you use the CD-ROM drive bay for a cup holder, you are misusing the product. As pathetic as that sounds, it has happened.
If you use your phone as a phone, and hold it in the normal fashion in your hand (the same way that Steve Jobs and Apple's marketing materials show it being held) you are not misusing the product.
3) If you grip a cell phone around the antenna and loose a call, it is the users fault. The cell phone maker is not at fault.
If the phone maker places the antenna on the outside, at the location where people naturally hold the phone, and this causes problems with the function of the antenna, this is fundamentally bad usability design. Products should be designed for users, not users for products.
It is easy for naive, spoiled and socially irresponsible people to blame equipment when they are not using the device properly. They just need training and this is what Apple is trying to do. So all you wieners, get some education and give it up!
It is ludicrous, illogical, and socially irresponsible of you to blame users, when the device has not been designed properly. People should not need training on how to hold a phone. Apple needs to learn how people hold phones, and then design them accordingly. So all you fan boys, go learn something about design principles and give it up!
IMO, this alleged antenna issue is so overblown, this smells of a well funded, black PR campaign to trash one of the most successful consumer product launches in decades. Personally, I want to know how many of these "independent bloggers" are paid and on the clock to post this crap to make the iPhone 4 look bad.
It's not overblown, it's just a very big problem. That's what happens when you create a very expensive device, and hype it to the max, only for people to find that it is fundamentally flawed and does not perform it's primary function properly - it's called feedback. A well funded black PR campaign? Are you joking? the vast majority of people complaining are not bloggers with an agenda - they are Apple's own loyal customers. I certainly fall into that category - Apple user for 15 years, and in that time I have bought more than 10 mac desktops, 4 laptops, 4 iPods and 2 iPhones. My first mac was 7200/90 with 8mb RAM.
I hope Apple has a good private investigator team on this to find out where the money is coming from on this one. The publicity of this issue is way too focused and coordinated to have "just happened."
What money? The publicity surrounding this issue didn't "just happen". It is the result of selling approx 2 million very expensive but unreliable iPhones. 2 million pissed off people can generate a lot of publicity and it's only going to get bigger as everyone finally starts to realise that it really is EVERY phone that is affected.
All in all, yours was possibly the most ridiculous post yet on the subject, even if you have a great deal of competition. Congratulations.
