Ok, let's reverse this, approach it backwards. Bear with me as I prepare the setup and it's a doozy:
If, during the next few days or next few weeks - anytime, really - Apple releases a firmware update, the so-called still completely unofficial iOS 4.0.1, and it specifically addresses and resolves the issue(s) that I and others are reporting with respect to signal degradation and service loss, issues with holding the phone being the potential cause, skin-on-metal conduct causes vastly more severe signal degradation and service loss or faster loss at least, in fact it fixes every damned thing that all of us are complaining about, and in consideration that every single iPhone 4 is exactly the same (or they damned sure should be), would that - by definition - not constitute the fact that the problems exist on every single iPhone 4 since the firmware is for all of them?
Would Apple release an iOS 4.0.1 update and say "Only install this if you're having problems"?
We all know the iPhone OS 3.1.3 update specifically addressed one issue on one model of iPhone: the lack of accuracy in the battery meter on the iPhone 3GS, but it also had a secondary purpose: it "broke" the ability to Jailbreak those devices running 3.1.3 meaning not just the iPhone 3GS but iPod touchs as well.
When this so-called still completely unofficial "fix" is released, if it specifically addresses the issues we iPhone 4 owners experiencing and it actually resolves them, on every single iPhone 4 that has the demonstrated the issue, that makes it an issue on all of them by default because they are all the same devices.
Hence by definition - since they all would benefit from a firmware update designed for them - the iPhone 4 was defective from the factory. If all of them, after leaving the factory, require the "fix" that means they're all broken, from the gitgo.
So far, Apple has - by way of Steve Jobs and his terse emails - avoided admission that there is anything wrong with the iPhone at all except he didn't - he acknowledged that something is amiss, at least for one owner (samcraig) that confronted him by email and said his phone isn't working when he holds it in his left hand. Jobs' response of "Just avoid holding it in that way" is the "shot heard round the world" one could say because it acknowledges something is very wrong.
If nothing were wrong, Jobs should have replied "No idea what you're talking about" or something equally as terse. But he didn't - he provided a reply that is an absolutely incontrovertible statement of fact that yes, something is amiss, and he knows it, so "Just avoid holding it in that way (and it'll work just fine)" - my addition to the incomplete statement, as I understand his curt reply to have been understood.
So, riddle me this, kids:
If there's nothing wrong, why the implied admission and instruction to alter yourself to make the device work? And if a firmware fix is actually coming, whenever that may be, it'll be designed for each and every iPhone 4 out there, like mine and many others, with no respect to whether someone has made a post complaining about it not functioning as advertised or not.
The "fix" will be for every device running iOS 4.0.1, but it comes so closely on the release of the iPhone 4 which is the device the majority of us are complaining about, that simple deduction would bring one to conclude that, "Houston, we have a problem."
Unless suddenly every single device running iOS 4.0.0 is now having issues, and I know a ton of people with 3GS models are complaining too about very similar but not quite precisely the same issues, then this is something specific to the iPhone 4 because some of the issues are iPhone 4-centric since it has a metal antenna band that comes into contact with our skin.
Such issues are hardware related, not software - touching the phone causes a malfunction, that's hardware even though my skin is relatively soft.
There's some logic for you. Think about it. I'm going to bed...
If, during the next few days or next few weeks - anytime, really - Apple releases a firmware update, the so-called still completely unofficial iOS 4.0.1, and it specifically addresses and resolves the issue(s) that I and others are reporting with respect to signal degradation and service loss, issues with holding the phone being the potential cause, skin-on-metal conduct causes vastly more severe signal degradation and service loss or faster loss at least, in fact it fixes every damned thing that all of us are complaining about, and in consideration that every single iPhone 4 is exactly the same (or they damned sure should be), would that - by definition - not constitute the fact that the problems exist on every single iPhone 4 since the firmware is for all of them?
Would Apple release an iOS 4.0.1 update and say "Only install this if you're having problems"?
We all know the iPhone OS 3.1.3 update specifically addressed one issue on one model of iPhone: the lack of accuracy in the battery meter on the iPhone 3GS, but it also had a secondary purpose: it "broke" the ability to Jailbreak those devices running 3.1.3 meaning not just the iPhone 3GS but iPod touchs as well.
When this so-called still completely unofficial "fix" is released, if it specifically addresses the issues we iPhone 4 owners experiencing and it actually resolves them, on every single iPhone 4 that has the demonstrated the issue, that makes it an issue on all of them by default because they are all the same devices.
Hence by definition - since they all would benefit from a firmware update designed for them - the iPhone 4 was defective from the factory. If all of them, after leaving the factory, require the "fix" that means they're all broken, from the gitgo.
So far, Apple has - by way of Steve Jobs and his terse emails - avoided admission that there is anything wrong with the iPhone at all except he didn't - he acknowledged that something is amiss, at least for one owner (samcraig) that confronted him by email and said his phone isn't working when he holds it in his left hand. Jobs' response of "Just avoid holding it in that way" is the "shot heard round the world" one could say because it acknowledges something is very wrong.
If nothing were wrong, Jobs should have replied "No idea what you're talking about" or something equally as terse. But he didn't - he provided a reply that is an absolutely incontrovertible statement of fact that yes, something is amiss, and he knows it, so "Just avoid holding it in that way (and it'll work just fine)" - my addition to the incomplete statement, as I understand his curt reply to have been understood.
So, riddle me this, kids:
If there's nothing wrong, why the implied admission and instruction to alter yourself to make the device work? And if a firmware fix is actually coming, whenever that may be, it'll be designed for each and every iPhone 4 out there, like mine and many others, with no respect to whether someone has made a post complaining about it not functioning as advertised or not.
The "fix" will be for every device running iOS 4.0.1, but it comes so closely on the release of the iPhone 4 which is the device the majority of us are complaining about, that simple deduction would bring one to conclude that, "Houston, we have a problem."
Unless suddenly every single device running iOS 4.0.0 is now having issues, and I know a ton of people with 3GS models are complaining too about very similar but not quite precisely the same issues, then this is something specific to the iPhone 4 because some of the issues are iPhone 4-centric since it has a metal antenna band that comes into contact with our skin.
Such issues are hardware related, not software - touching the phone causes a malfunction, that's hardware even though my skin is relatively soft.
There's some logic for you. Think about it. I'm going to bed...
