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Why would you believe a company that said about the antenna issue on the iPhone 4: "You're holding it wrong". There are way more complaints and pictures to be f

by KJasper 12y ago

Why would you believe a company that said about the antenna issue on the iPhone 4: "You're holding it wrong". There are way more complaints and pictures to be found on this issue than the ones that Apple reports.

PhasmaFelis 12y ago
IIRC, that wasn't a official response but an off-the-cuff answer from one man, who is now dead.
- WorldWideWayne 12y ago
  You mean the then CEO, Steve Jobs?
  - PhasmaFelis 12y ago
    Who else would I mean? Steve Jobs was a jerk, yes. It does not follow from this that Apple as a whole will necessarily lie about damage reports.
swombat 12y ago
> * a company that said about the antenna issue on the iPhone 4: "You're holding it wrong"* Yes and... that was correct? Every other phone suffers from the same antenna attenuation if you enclose it completely in your hands. But because it's Apple, some news outlets saw a chance to make some pageviews by creating another scandal. The "antennagate" crap was roughly equivalent to people complaining that a TV won't show any image at all if you set it up facing the wall, and writing lots of grandiose articles about how Apple TV doesn't deliver on its promise in all sorts of common circumstances, etc.
- rtpg 12y ago
  Actually the iPhone 4 suffered the most from this because of its metal casing (most phones were , and still are, made from plastic). Because this created a sort of faraday cage for the cell signals, part of the design (the metal border) served as an antenna. In fact, as two antennas (seen here (http://jim93277.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/iphone3_1_610x372.png) http://jim93277.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/iphone3_1_610x37...). One for WiFi and other cool stuff, the other for Cell tower stuff. But if you held it with your left hand, you could create a contact between the two antennas and things would freak out a bit. This is 1000% due to the design of the iPhone 4, and not an issue with other phones. It had nothing to do with "covering the entire antenna with your hand". So who's wrong? Apple, for not considering this? Or a good 10/20% of the world for doing things with their left hands?

by KJasper 12y ago

PhasmaFelis 12y ago

IIRC, that wasn't a official response but an off-the-cuff answer from one man, who is now dead.

WorldWideWayne 12y ago
You mean the then CEO, Steve Jobs?
- PhasmaFelis 12y ago
  Who else would I mean? Steve Jobs was a jerk, yes. It does not follow from this that Apple as a whole will necessarily lie about damage reports.

swombat 12y ago

> * a company that said about the antenna issue on the iPhone 4: "You're holding it wrong"* Yes and... that was correct? Every other phone suffers from the same antenna attenuation if you enclose it completely in your hands. But because it's Apple, some news outlets saw a chance to make some pageviews by creating another scandal. The "antennagate" crap was roughly equivalent to people complaining that a TV won't show any image at all if you set it up facing the wall, and writing lots of grandiose articles about how Apple TV doesn't deliver on its promise in all sorts of common circumstances, etc.

rtpg 12y ago
Actually the iPhone 4 suffered the most from this because of its metal casing (most phones were , and still are, made from plastic). Because this created a sort of faraday cage for the cell signals, part of the design (the metal border) served as an antenna. In fact, as two antennas (seen here (http://jim93277.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/iphone3_1_610x372.png) http://jim93277.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/iphone3_1_610x37...). One for WiFi and other cool stuff, the other for Cell tower stuff. But if you held it with your left hand, you could create a contact between the two antennas and things would freak out a bit. This is 1000% due to the design of the iPhone 4, and not an issue with other phones. It had nothing to do with "covering the entire antenna with your hand". So who's wrong? Apple, for not considering this? Or a good 10/20% of the world for doing things with their left hands?