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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
Sounds fair enough to me, but I don't own an iPhone 4....
Scott, you have an iPhone 4, and had the problem.... are you satisfied with this response?
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well. the free bumper is what people have been asking for. so that's a good thing. you think about it, pretty much every phone out there has a "bumper" around it, the phone case itself, and the antenna is internal. apple making it external leaves it open to the problem it has now, a bumper makes it "internal".
i'm sure apple will re-design the box and include one in it, probably the color of the phone itself.
showing us every phone out there has this issue to varying degrees. well. that was educational for those who didn't know that. for those that did, nothing new.
apple's non-apology. that was disappointing. it would have cost them little and gained them much. at least they didn't outright call their customers stupid. repeatedly saying "we love our customers" got silly. i think if we made a drinking game out of it i would have been drunk quickly.
so not very surprising overall. free bumpers don't cost apple very much. i doubt those pieces of plastic and silicone cost more than $0.50 to make, even 3million of them won't cost apple much, $1.5M is a drop in the bucket. apple didn't admit any fault, which will help them if the class action suits go further (if apple had admitted any fault they would have handed them a victory on a silver platter). apple showed they aren't the only one with issues.
i think next year's model won't have an external antenna. i think other manufacturers will be
very careful not to copy this design off of apple.
i also find it
very unbelievable that none of apple's 19 phd engineers said "hey, we might have a problem here with this design." if jobs wasn't lying, then they really need to fill those antenna engineer positions with college grads who would probably be able to state the obvious.
end result. am i happy. well. i'm satisfied. will i keep my iphone 4. yes, i'm kind of stuck with it as i can't get my 3gs back and i'm not going to swap the 4 for a new 3gs at this point. will i be an early adopter of the iphone 5? absolutely not. apple has made me wary. i will be replacing this phone in the future? absolutely. more likely sooner than later. and if anything, this gives me another reason to ditch at&t in the future as well. oh and i will be ordering my free bumper. hmm. what color?
