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iPhone 4 Signal Issue Can Be Fixed With a Software Update?

MacNut said:
I call BS, Jobs knows every little detail he had to know about the signal issues.
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...but you are an expert indeed in all things apple...

...and you seem to know what SJ knows as well...

---and your comments are not flame and troll bait...
 
sbrhwkp3 said:
Yeah. Right. Because the CEO of a highly successful corporation was just drooling to release a product that would generate nonstop negative PR and make his stock values tumble.
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He very well may have assumed it wasn't going to blow up this big. The media generally loves Apple. They have a very loyal fan base that is going to defend their every move no matter what, and they probably figured they could spin their way through the story, as they attempted to do for the past few weeks. Now the game is up and today they have to provide legitimate answers, or a whole bunch of people are going to tell them they're full of ****.
 
BruiserBear said:
He very well may have assumed it wasn't going to blow up this big. The media generally loves Apple. They have a very loyal fan base that is going to defend their every move no matter what, and they probably figured they could spin their way through the story, as they attempted to do for the past few weeks. Now the game is up and today they have to provide legitimate answers, or a whole bunch of people are going to tell them they're full of ****.
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Yup.
 
tomccabe said:
I stopped reading really early in this post. It was boring drivel. When you can point me to posts where I've been a "fanboy" please do. You haven't been able to respond to anything else without resorting to this type of deflective behavior so forgive me if I won't expect it now. When you are actually able to truthfully agree to the terms of service that state you need to be 13 years old, drop another post my way.
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You know you read the whole thing. Among your other failings, you're a narcissist. You couldn't help yourself.

And I'll post something meaningful as soon as you do.
 
The "person with direct knowledge of the phone's design" is clearly someone from Apple that is speaking off the record as part of a well planned attempt to to take control of the message in advance of today's PC. This is classic PR stuff. Apple has clearly hired a crisis management PR consultant. I'll wager with anyone that this will be the exact line that Apple will take at today's presser.
 
moglee said:
Apple if you read this - I have the perfect solution - take the iPhone 4 strip out the phonestuff, scratch off the iPhone label, put an iPod Touch label on the back and sell it to me.
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you are not worthy...
 
Hmm

It sounds to me like some lazy worker found the problem and decided to hide it with the antenae display "problem".
 
BruiserBear said:
He very well may have assumed it wasn't going to blow up this big. The media generally loves Apple. They have a very loyal fan base that is going to defend their every move no matter what, and they probably figured they could spin their way through the story, as they attempted to do for the past few weeks. Now the game is up and today they have to provide legitimate answers, or a whole bunch of people are going to tell them they're full of ****.
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Then again, there are some who are read to say that he is full of crap if he does not say what they want him to say, that it is a hardware issue, even before trying any offered solution.
 
tomccabe said:
If you show up with some stupid "stevehasnojobs" screenname and spout a bunch of uninformed garbage
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I'm personally offended. Just wait until tomorrow and see how Apple has taken my idea of making iPhone users wear metal gloves to boost signal levels and I think after that someone owes me an apology.
 
aughsum said:
Wow.. if Apple fixes it with software.. you will all need to find something new to bitch about.
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do you have kids?

folks complaining about apple are like kids complaining that their brother makes faces, but won't stop looking, just in case the brother makes a face...! :)

most folks that complain about apple could return their iphone4, purchase a droid, and stop feeling sorry, but what's the fun in that?
 
ChrisNM said:
You know you read the whole thing. Among your other failings, you're a narcissist. You couldn't help yourself.

And I'll post something meaningful as soon as you do.
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As much as id love to prop up the egos of the less fortunate, no I really didn't read your whole post. I don't read any of the fake "insider", imaginary conversations on this board because, frankly, they have even less value than anything people that post them would normally say. Don't feel bad, it's just a personal policy. Yours won't be the first or the last one I don't read.

You seem to really know a lot about me. What's my favorite color?
 
SteveOutOfJobs said:
I'm personally offended. Just wait until tomorrow and see how Apple has taken my idea of making iPhone users wear metal gloves to boost signal levels and I think after that someone owes me an apology.
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Haha to be honest, at least you're entertaining. More than I can say for some others. Have at it!
 
BruiserBear said:
He very well may have assumed it wasn't going to blow up this big. The media generally loves Apple. They have a very loyal fan base that is going to defend their every move no matter what, and they probably figured they could spin their way through the story, as they attempted to do for the past few weeks.
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We'll never know for sure, but I agree. He has a gambler streak, and like all gamblers he got bolder and bolder as he kept winning and winning. Eventually he bet it all on the hope that the phone's merits would overshadow the antenna's Achilles' heel, should it even be discovered. Oops.
 
PecanEater said:
The "person with direct knowledge of the phone's design" is clearly someone from Apple that is speaking off the record as part of a well planned attempt to to take control of the message in advance of today's PC. This is classic PR stuff. Apple has clearly hired a crisis management PR consultant. I'll wager with anyone that this will be the exact line that Apple will take at today's presser.
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+++1 for you too bad the rest of the sheep here can't see it!!!!! Steve Jobs will have his reality distortion field on full stun today. What a joke!!!!!!
 
bwillwall said:
It sounds to me like some lazy worker found the problem and decided to hide it with the antenae display "problem".
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I agree with you.

I have another theory...

- apple engineer in charge of antenna testing goes to bar,
- engineer gets drunk, looses phone...
- db finds the phone and sells it to a questionable web idiots...
- apple forgets about the unfinished antena test...
- original apple engineer says "ooppss..."

- if I were apple, I would blame and make the questionable web idiots pay for all of this... :)
 
tomccabe said:
As much as id love to prop up the egos of the less fortunate, no I really didn't read your whole post. I don't read any of the fake "insider", imaginary conversations on this board because, frankly, they have even less value than anything people that post them would normally say. Don't feel bad, it's just a personal policy. Yours won't be the first or the last one I don't read.

You seem to really know a lot about me. What's my favorite color?
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Considering you see everything in black and white, I have a 50-50 chance of getting it right, don't I?
 
Tundraboy said:
+++1 for you too bad the rest of the sheep here can't see it!!!!! Steve Jobs will have his reality distortion field on full stun today. What a joke!!!!!!
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I'm left wondering why a "reality distortion field" would be on "full stun". Weird thing to say...is +++1 = +3?
 
software of course can fix the hardware. it is not like they will shape the physcial parts with update.. you can even control your old computers through power cable only. may require some military intelligence but ......
 
"...said the person, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter."

"The source also indicates that Apple CEO Steve Jobs did not learn of the signal issue until after the iPhone 4 began shipping, seemingly refuting a report from Bloomberg earlier today claiming that Jobs had been tipped off early in the design process that the antenna design could cause a problem."


Is Steve Jobs' Dad still around?
 
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