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bad news for the new iphone
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 25 Jun 2010, 06:53 ---Well fuck me a new piece of tech is causing problems for people who went out and bought it on the first day this is entirely unique to Apple definitely
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Well see usually the problem with early adoption is bad manufacturing which is also happening with this phone, but this is just really shitty engineering right here.
Oh hey, Jesus Diaz just called Apple out for making a gorgeously stupid phone.
bicostp:
I think the problem is if you hold the phone the way Apple has always done in their marketing, your hand shorts out the gap in the aluminum trim piece around the antenna, which shorts the antenna to ground, rendering it useless. Apple's official fix? "Buy a bumper" and "it's not our problem".
You know if any other company had this attitude about design flaws there would be serious backlash. Yet for some reason, Apple gets a free pass. Imagine if Toyota's official gas pedal fix was "don't floor it", or if Microsoft's fix for the RTM version of Vista was "you're doing it wrong". :|
Put a piece of scotch tape over the bottom left corner of the iPhone 4's metal trim. That should eliminate the problem if it's an electrical short.
jhocking:
I read an interesting theory on how this problem wasn't noticed during their testing. Back when Gizmodo got the lost phone, it was in a case to disguise it. The short only happens against bare skin. The guys behind the testing are gonna be like double fired if that's what happened.
David_Dovey:
--- Quote from: bicostp on 25 Jun 2010, 09:20 ---Yet for some reason, Apple gets a free pass
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By what metric are Apple getting a free pass on this?
As we speak the number of articles on the Internet of righteous nerd fury are expanding at an exponential rate, it is pretty much the biggest thing going right now in tech talk. Same when the cops raided the Gizmodo office, same as the incredibly overwhelmingly negative reaction among tech commentators (i.e; dedicated electronics reviewers and such, not rank-and-file media types) to the initial iPad announcement, same as when they tightened restrictions in the App Store and so on and on.
I'm not saying Apple haven't acted like utter shitdicks in every one of these instances, but the hysteria coming from the commentators lately is starting to match the levels that Microsoft saw at their monopolising worst.
Ozymandias:
By the sales metric.
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