Like my annoying upstairs neighbor who stomps around her apartment constantly, fully aware that she makes my life a sonic hell, but refuses to do a thing about it, Apple too knows the score here, but like a spoiled bratty kid, they seem not to give a crap.
This isn't about some tweak they made to the Finder that irked a few power users. This is about 2 million phones that weren't designed properly. This is a major production error, perhaps Apple's largest, and certainly its highest profile mistake ever. The repercussions of admitting to and rectifying the situatuon via recall/exchange would amount to millions in lost revenue, a sizeable stock hit, and perhaps the worst part as far as Apple is concerned, a nice fat scratch in their shiny polished image, right at the height of their game.
Their silence is deafening. The longer they remain quiet (and by quiet, I don't mean concocting half baked scifi excuses for why calls are dropping...a 6 year old lies better than Apple), the more culpable they obviously are. But Apple is so used to controlling the flow of their entire machine, they don't know how to handle this. Like a bratty child prodigy who screws up for the first time, Apple is completely without the skills to grow a pair and deal with this like a grown up company.
The iPhone 4 has pulled the curtains open on the wizard, but the wizard has closed his eyes and is pretending the curtains are still shut.
