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Old 07-17-2010, 11:10 AM   #271
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Steve Job's arrogance knows NO bounds...."reality distortion field" in full effect yesterday. Truly an attitude that only a hardcore fanboi could tolerate.

"Apple CEO Steve Jobs came up with a two-part solution. Part 1: There is no problem. Part 2: Even though there is no problem, we’re going to give everyone a free case, which should insulate the antenna and prevent the interference that we just told you isn’t actually occurring. But if you’re still not happy, you can give back the phone for a full refund. Jobs’s snotty tone made it clear that he was pretty fed up with all the whining about a problem that he says doesn’t exist. "

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/16/a...n-reponse.html
Damn, that guy's got an axe to grind. I find it a little hard to get on the hate bandwagon and call this a huge problem when only 0.55% of customers have complained of the issue. Yeah, I guess you can replicate it if you know where to touch it, but how often does it really affect people? Not much apparently.
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Old 07-17-2010, 01:16 PM   #272
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Damn, that guy's got an axe to grind. I find it a little hard to get on the hate bandwagon and call this a huge problem when only 0.55% of customers have complained of the issue. Yeah, I guess you can replicate it if you know where to touch it, but how often does it really affect people? Not much apparently.
Apparently it affected Consumer Reports often and severely enough for them to not recommend the product. They provided complete data to support their criticism.

Is this criticism deflected with a "they just have an axe to grind" too?
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Old 07-17-2010, 01:42 PM   #273
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Can you replicate the problem by touching the case like Consumer Reports did?
What type of case were they using?
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Old 07-17-2010, 04:24 PM   #274
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Apparently it affected Consumer Reports often and severely enough for them to not recommend the product. They provided complete data to support their criticism.

Is this criticism deflected with a "they just have an axe to grind" too?
Nah, Consumer Reports wrote a much more mature criticism. This guy sounds like a tool.
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Old 07-19-2010, 09:22 AM   #275
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Amusing Taiwanese reenactment of the iPhone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-YesqzvNk

*Should have started yet another thread.*
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Old 07-19-2010, 10:39 AM   #276
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Yep, they do look like they'd be iPhone users
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Old 07-19-2010, 02:27 PM   #277
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Can you replicate the problem by touching the case like Consumer Reports did?
nope. I've even tried going to places where I know for a fact there's spotty reception and haven't had issues.
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Old 07-24-2010, 05:57 PM   #278
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So all those people that stood in line to get the i4, did they pay full price?
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Old 07-25-2010, 07:14 PM   #279
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I've had mine for over two weeks and I haven't been able to replicate the problem at all, nor has Ulu.
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Old 07-25-2010, 07:42 PM   #280
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Every phone call I had today dropped at least once (and i have a bumper).. Put my iphone 4 on ebay for 500$ already got 3 bids on it.. Ordered the droid x..
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