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The problem isn't that the signal drops. The problem is that Apple fudged the bars, to make "5 bars" show in more locations. This fudging means that in a few c
by wisty 16y ago
The problem isn't that the signal drops. The problem is that Apple fudged the bars, to make "5 bars" show in more locations.
This fudging means that in a few cases, squeezing the phone will lose all the bars, not just 1 or 2.
Now, they don't deserve to be beat up over their antenna design - they get better signals than the old iPhones, even if you hold them wrong. They do deserve to be beat up for fudging the bar calculations.
I guess that's karma - dishonest behavior highlighted a minor design flaw, and now everyone is hung-up over the minor design flaw.
- Tamerlin 16y ago"I guess that's karma - dishonest behavior highlighted a minor design flaw, and now everyone is hung-up over the minor design flaw." The same thing happened to Intel with the Pentium 5 FDIV bug. By denying it, Intel turned a trivial bug into a major PR fiasco. Don't forget, it required a floating point division with TWELVE significant digits to trigger the bug. The only reason that it became a huge PR fiasco is that when a scientific researcher ran into it, Intel tried to hide it.