NYT: It's a fixable software problem

[jayo123456]

Who cares. Steve Jobs is an idiot if he knew about this wayyyy ahead of time. What a moronic thing to do.

Do you, or anyone truly believe Steve Jobs is dumb?

he turned a dying company into one of the biggest in the world. Give the man some credit.



my predictons:

after tomorrows press, peoples sentiments will change, just like they did when Jobs wrote the letter on flash about flash.

They will figure a way. They always do.

 

[kuaiyouming]

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[3goldens]

I have heard from a reliable source that Steve Jobs will not be there tomorrow.

Wonder who is going to hit the stage and answer to the vultures in attendance?

 

[Domino8282]

Wow, these forums really have gone downhill in the past month. Someone posts an article from a credible news source, and all anyone can do is make stupid jokes and spew vitriol.

Why is it so hard to believe that baseband software may be involved in compensating for the signal attenuation that occurs with all cell phones? Why is it hard to believe that this problem has existed with every iPhone, but the iPhone 4's design has simply made it more evident?

Some people aren't even reading the article and seem to think it's talking about iOS 4.01. It's not. This is talking about the modem baseband. The software that tells your phone how to talk to the cell towers.

I'm not saying it's "confirmed" or anything like that - but I wouldn't blow it off completely. It's at least plausible.

Obviously it's still inexcusable that they would release a product like this without discovering and rectifying this software issue beforehand, but I'm still choosing to see this as a positive sign.

 

[Full of Win]

I'd day it was software too if it ment saving 1 billion +.

 

[S1njin]

If it was fixable software....THEN WHY HASN'T IT BEEN FIXED ALREADY. BS

If it took them THIS long to develop, change, test/QA, and deploy a simple bar formula fix, how long do you think it'd take to get this through the system? If this is true, maybe we'll see it in 4.1 in some form. Lets see what Steve says today.

 

[deeddawg]

bugmenot.com

 

[kdarling]

If that was the case then wouldn't it make sense to have all of your resources going to that fix instead of fixing the least important thing (signal detector) first?

"All their resources" would be the handful of Apple engineers who work on the RF hardware and software. (Along with Infineon engineers, since they supplied the main radio chips.)

And no doubt all of those people are very overworked and tense right now.

 

[stahl7639]

Class Action for what? If you are dissatisfied with your purchase then return it. You have the option to do that. Just because you want it doesn't mean you can sue because it doesn't work like you want.

Do you not understand that this is a PHONE, and should work as such?

 

[Megalobyte]

Do you not understand that this is a PHONE, and should work as such?

I think of it more as a feature packed, very sophisticated computer and media device with a phone built in, than the reverse, despite it being called an I phone.

I agree the phone should work, but I think the majority of people buy an iPhone with the actual phone being of secondary importance.

 

[deeddawg]

Do you not understand that this is a PHONE, and should work as such?

and the same option is available for any other phone you buy which doesn't work to your expectations: return it.

 

[stahl7639]

and the same option is available for any other phone you buy which doesn't work to your expectations: return it.

I think some people are missing the point. It's not that the phone isn't living up to user's expectations, the fact is, that the phone isn't living up to its name, which of course is iPHONE. Some user's can't even touch the phone and use it at the same time. I'm sorry, but I believe that if one purchases a phone, then by all means, it should actually work while it's being held in your bare hand.

Once again, all this coming from a user who has no problems with his iPhone4.