Uh, actually, with the Toyota Gas pedal recall, it was finally determined:
USER ERROR IN ALL CASES!
yup! stupid people was the cause, not Toyota. Sad how the media didn't put that on the front page?
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iPhone 4 Antenna Issues and Ping Rank Among Top 'Tech Fails' for 2010
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Uh, actually, with the Toyota Gas pedal recall, it was finally determined:
USER ERROR IN ALL CASES!
yup! stupid people was the cause, not Toyota. Sad how the media didn't put that on the front page?
MS Kin
Kin is such a huge POS, that it even did NOT won the Tech Fail 2010 price. Pure LAMEness...
Kin is such a huge POS, that it even did NOT won the Tech Fail 2010 price. Pure LAMEness...
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It may be the fastest selling phone ever, but it is the worst phone I've owned (does other things great but drops more calls than any phone I've had). Biggest fail for a primo price! Big apple disappointment.
It may be the fastest selling phone ever, but it is the worst phone I've owned (does other things great but drops more calls than any phone I've had). Biggest fail for a primo price! Big apple disappointment.
Huh????
Did you read different news than the rest of us? It was a gas pedal and computer fault system. The Toyota thing should have been on the list. It was a huge PR disaster for Toyota.
Huh????
No, you read the "old" news. You forgot to read the report about the DOT's investigation confirming it to not be a computer/gas pedal problem at all :
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703834604575364871534435744.html
The Toyota story was a big media exaggeration and people looking for settlements. This was posted earlier in the thread, try to keep up. Again : There never was an issue with Toyota cars aside from dumb users and carpets which were recalled instantly on some very limited models.
This comment keeps coming back and all it does is show a massive reading comprehension fail on the part of the people posting it. It's not the Phone in general that's labeled a fail, it's the antenna story from this summer. Apple PR reacted badly at first and then decided spin, denial and defamation were good tactics to calm the issue down.
However, the launch of the iPhone 4 had 3 big issues that did make it a big fail : White iPhone 4, Proximity sensor (took months) and the antenna. So while sales were good (no one is questioning that), Apple faced some severe issues with it that it did not with other iPhone launches.
The World isn't black and white. Something that sells well still can have problems. One isn't related to the other, especially when all your initial sales are going off hype alone.
In comes down to: Apple are just not good at Public Relations. If only their PR was as good as their GUIs then the iPhone / other 2010 issues may have been handled a lot of smoothly.
that does not gain you world wide adoption,
single OS supporting multiple HW configurations is the way to go, microsoft has proved this, which is why android will be the dominant mobile OS (its already second with symbian falling like a rock)
its possible that some people like to be locked in and not able to make their own choices but most of the population want to choose what kind of features they will use in a mobile phone (IE, screen size, hardware keyboard, touchscreen, camera resolution, etc)
windows phone 7 is growing faster than the iphone when it first launched, give them 1 full year and then see where they are at.
yeah it is a POS, i deployed about 20 of them at work and more than half of them drop calls and have stupid data connection issues, but we have no choice since we made an agreement with rogers in Canada.
"antennagate" is the 2010 top overhyped story, not the top failure. The antenna works fine, and it has not noticeably affected the phone's performance in terms of sales or functionality.
CNN seems to have a lot of somebodies money behind them to put the iPhone on that list... They have lost a lot of credibility for such a stupid entry on this particular top 10....
I did not or do not want it. However, Apple will not let me have the option of completely removing it from iTunes without hacks. "Here is this useless feature that further bloats iTunes and cannot be removed. You will like it because we say so."
I saw an ad for a Windows phone on HTC hardware
...Two wrongs don't make a right! I'm so done with MS. The only MS thing I have now is an original XBOX. Why would anyone (who knew better) want a WINDOWS phone??? And it runs on the hardware of a bad company that makes a phone after the iPhone then sues Apple for copying their design.
It was the drivers who wanted to kill their Priuses because they were so ugly
But yes I agree, the news completely lied about that. It was not Toyota's fault. Of course, they don't show THIS story on the news...
Not to mention the "tough new immigration law" of Arizona, which, whether or not it should have passed, was not an immigration law but more of a policing law that prevented illegal immigration. The local channels (7 and 9) both called it that. I've found that the newstations are actually really biased sometimes even if the story is true. They don't show the whole story.
So channels 7 and 9 are democrats and channel 11 (Fox) is blatantly republican (I'm republican and I think the people on Fox are morons
).I saw an ad for a Windows phone on HTC hardware
I'm so done with MS. The only MS thing I have now is an original XBOX. Why would anyone (who knew better) want a WINDOWS phone??? And it runs on the hardware of a bad company that makes a phone after the iPhone then sues Apple for copying their design.
I didn't mean the comment as 'windows is great'. I meant it for the person saying the iphone couldn't have an issue because they sell so many. Market share and quality don't go hand in hand (vhs/beta, windows/os x, gsm/cdma).
All Phones have Antenna Issues In Fringe Areas
If the signal strength is very weak in the area you are using a cell phone, holding any phone a certain way would cause issues. Apple just designed a fancy antenna where the gap was exposed, and when gripped, the capacitance effect was introduced causing the antenna to degrade the incoming signal. Using other AT&T phones in that exact same location would have issues also if you applied the death grip to that phone.
If the signal strength is very weak in the area you are using a cell phone, holding any phone a certain way would cause issues. Apple just designed a fancy antenna where the gap was exposed, and when gripped, the capacitance effect was introduced causing the antenna to degrade the incoming signal. Using other AT&T phones in that exact same location would have issues also if you applied the death grip to that phone.
Let's not get into this again. Simple facts :
- There never was a grip. iPhone 4 is affected by a touch. The tip of your finger, applied to a very specific area, caused the issue on all of the iPhone 4s.
- The loss of signal by this simple touch on iPhone 4 was greater than the loss of signal by other handsets that were completely gripped tightly.
- This issue was only apparent in areas of low signal, since the 5 bar display kept 5 bars until very low in the signal band.
Please stop repeating Apple generated non-sense to try to spin, deny and deflect this issue. It was and still is very real. People just have moved on seeing Apple will never admit to a mistake on their part (because doing so would cause to much backlash, spin, denial, defamation/deflection was their best course of action, let the believers spread to the good news for them!).
2010 Journalism Fail #1
I really enjoyed tech fail #8, which sadly is also the 2010 Journalism Fail #1:
"8. Content farms
Creating click-bait junk on the internet didn't start in 2010. But it certainly took off in a big way."
Listing ANYTHING related to iPhone4 as a fail is pure, unadulterated click bait. In fact, I'm willing to bet that this article was created for the sole purpose of reporting a popular Apple product as the #1 fail of the year. Nothing else on the list matters. Positions 2-10 were merely mentioned to make the content of the article seem as if someone spent days in detailed analysis of every tech failure of the year.
In reality, the top ten biggest tech failures of the year were projects you never heard of. But that doesn't get clicks, now does it?
Bleh.
I really enjoyed tech fail #8, which sadly is also the 2010 Journalism Fail #1:
"8. Content farms
Creating click-bait junk on the internet didn't start in 2010. But it certainly took off in a big way."
Listing ANYTHING related to iPhone4 as a fail is pure, unadulterated click bait. In fact, I'm willing to bet that this article was created for the sole purpose of reporting a popular Apple product as the #1 fail of the year. Nothing else on the list matters. Positions 2-10 were merely mentioned to make the content of the article seem as if someone spent days in detailed analysis of every tech failure of the year.
In reality, the top ten biggest tech failures of the year were projects you never heard of. But that doesn't get clicks, now does it?
Bleh.
i agree
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20100325/nexus_one_100327/
actually they say it worked out how they wanted it to, its purely to demonstrate android (which is why android is 2nd right now following symbian for global adoption, i hardly call that a failure)
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White iPhone was a bigger fail than the antennea. Neither were a major tech fail, most people who owned one never minded (myself and all my friends included). If you look at the old forums it was a complaint logged by non-iPhone owners. Hell, iOS 4.0 was a worse fail for the 3G than anything.
Google tv, the kin, windows mobile 6.5 (or was that late 2009?), google wave, toyotas brakes, ping, the new digg (I guess it was such a fail no one even cares about digg anymore), all of these were legitiment tech fails. The fact that people overblew a minor inconvenience on the best selling mobile device of all time was a huge media fail, not a tech fail. As an iPhone owner, the improved signal and case design are huge tech wins IMO. In the future they'll move it behind the apple logo and it'll be slightly better.
What about all those 3D TVs or every other tablet that was announced at CES last year. Those are all legitment tech fails.
The media SUCKS these days.
Oh yeah, and Jason Chen of gizmodo, for breaking every tenant of good journalism in one fell swoop.
White iPhone was a bigger fail than the antennea. Neither were a major tech fail, most people who owned one never minded (myself and all my friends included). If you look at the old forums it was a complaint logged by non-iPhone owners. Hell, iOS 4.0 was a worse fail for the 3G than anything.
Google tv, the kin, windows mobile 6.5 (or was that late 2009?), google wave, toyotas brakes, ping, the new digg (I guess it was such a fail no one even cares about digg anymore), all of these were legitiment tech fails. The fact that people overblew a minor inconvenience on the best selling mobile device of all time was a huge media fail, not a tech fail. As an iPhone owner, the improved signal and case design are huge tech wins IMO. In the future they'll move it behind the apple logo and it'll be slightly better.
What about all those 3D TVs or every other tablet that was announced at CES last year. Those are all legitment tech fails.
The media SUCKS these days.
Oh yeah, and Jason Chen of gizmodo, for breaking every tenant of good journalism in one fell swoop.