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[AlexMogil]

It's very nice to see him be a little humble and recognize an issue. Rare in this day and age.

 

[Dan]

Haha, this is glorious. CNBC is comparing Steve Jobs to Lebron James :lol

 

[polyh3dron]

I am covering up as much surface area ad possible with both of my hands and my 3GS still has full bars.

 

[SimleuqiR]

You guys are like the assholes that never let people finish sentences. Let Jobs get his ego out of the way first. He's not just going to say "b-b-but" for 30 minutes.

:lol No disagreement here. :lol

 

[Zombie James]

"Now we're not perfect. We made it very visible with a little help from our friends on websites. We put this little line here... 'here's where you touch it everybody!'"

Wow.

 

[Technosteve]

Steve please show me the iphone 5

 

[Korey]

This is like Apple's version of The Decision

 

[Kano on the Phone]

ROFL.


Seriously?? If this was such a problem with other phones, people would have complained. :lol :lol

3 million people noticed something that the 200 Droid Eris and Samsung Omnia 2 users didn't. Fucking shocking.

 

[offshore]

There's going to be a "repair plan."

A Genius Bar employee puts a piece of duct tape on the corner.:lol

If the Genius Bar employee is as unhelpful and as rude as the one I dealt with today, this wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Flo_Evans]

So cell phones suck and no one should own one? That is what I am getting from this.

 

[Nabs]

This is like Apple's version of The Decision

:lol :lol :lol

 

[noah111]

This is embarrassing. Just announce what you're going to do to fix YOUR problems.

How so? First they need to make it clear that this is a phone problem, not a specific iPhone problem, however more prevalent it may be in the iPhone 4.

As long as their acknowledging the mistake and offering a fix, saying it isn't as big of a deal is acceptable to me.

 

[Chittagong]

we haven't figured out a way around the laws of physics yet

:lol

 

[Dartastic]

...is it just me or is this table backwards

I thought the same thing. :lol

 

[LCfiner]

my god. everyone here is out for blood. no surprise looking at all the usual avatars


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We went to a lot of trouble to put this beautiful line in the stainless steel to say here's where you touch it everybody... and we had incorrect bars, so when it did drop the drop looked far more catastrophic


but we screwed up on our algorithm

Our choice is to put the correct algorithm in which we've just done

They tested this back and forth and knew about it, but didn't think it would be a big problem because every smartphone has this issue.

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Holy Shit

CEREBRO

 

[HomShaBom]

5 minutes into a Jobs presentation and GAF is unsatisfied? What a shock!

5 minutes in and Whitta ready to suck some dick? SHOCK.

 

[Raistlin]

And now they're disregarding the fact that the 'location' of the problem spot is what makes it such an issue on this phone.

 

[Aquavelvaman]

Wat

 

[Technosteve]

I want to play decent in that room!

 

[scorcho]

but where are the charts showing that OSX is 2x faster than Windows Vista in comparable tasks??

 

[Stinkles]

For anti-apple fanatics? Yes... yes it is.

Isn't there a middle ground of people who just think this is stupid? Do we have to declare sides? I have an iPhone and a Macbook Pro and I love them, but the iPhone 4.0 is a PR disaster - one where the most-oft repeated problem was "arrogance". And they are holding a press conference that is making it worse and more arrogant.

 

[Gary Whitta]

Awesome test chamber!

Also he makes a good point that it's easier to make a big deal out of the signal drop where the spot that causes it is clearly visibly marked on the phone.

 

[Jal]

This is the technical version of you're holding it wrong.

 

[WillyFive]

Haha, this is glorious. CNBC is comparing Steve Jobs to Lebron James :lol

CNBC shouln't be talking, saying Steve Jobs is doing it wrong, while the conference is still going on.

They are like NeoGAF posters.

 

[badcrumble]

do they test in cerebro

edit: beaten

 

[antispin]

“We knew that if you gripped it in a certain way the bars would go down a little — just like every smartphone. It’s a challenge to the entire industry, and we’re hoping to make some contributions to this in the coming years.”

But didn't he say they just found out?

 

[C.Dark.DN]

Looking at live blog. Where is previous gen iPhones on their little death grip chart?

 

[Subliminal]

denial.

comeon steve you're better than that.

 

[NYR]

This is like Apple's version of The Decision

This should be the new thread title. Post of the thread, no doubt.

 

[itxaka]

3 million people noticed something that the 200 Droid Eris and Samsung Omnia 2 users didn't. Fucking shocking.

Affects all phones, or so they say. Probably 10 or 50 times the iphone userbase out there that didn't notice that no? like 30 million blackberry users?

 

[Zombie James]

"We knew that you could see bars drop on the phone when you hold it in a certain way, it's a fact, phones aren't perfect. But people are reporting better reception with this antenna than they've ever seen before."

What? He said earlier they only found out 22 days ago :/

 

[JonathanEx]

So far, "all phones do this" and "incorrect algorithm" is 10 minutes of reading out last week's press release.

 

[Zeppu]

Covering all the bases I see.

No live stream??

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

What the fuck... it's just damage control.

You're holding it wrong redux, indeed.

 

[Gary Whitta]

5 minutes in and Whitta ready to suck some dick? SHOCK.

Come on, surely you can do better than that. Or perhaps not.

 

[RBH]

5 minutes in and Whitta ready to suck some dick? SHOCK.

:lol :lol

 

[Chairman85]

3 million people noticed something that the 200 Droid Eris and Samsung Omnia 2 users didn't. Fucking shocking.

Hyperbole much?

 

[Interfectum]

:lol :lol

Was that really funny to you? Pathetic.

 

[NekoFever]

Holy Shit

CEREBRO

There's the problem. Cerebro amplifies psychic energy, compensating for any signal loss.

 

[SRG01]

By the way, as an EE, I don't see the need for "Cerebro" chambers like that. It's not like they're inventing some drastically different technology. It's RF engineering for crying out loud. They don't have to reinvent the wheel.

 

[andymcc]

What? He said earlier they only found out 22 days ago :/

:lol

 

[Kandrick]

5 minutes in and Whitta ready to suck some dick? SHOCK.

:lol :lol :lol

 

[delirium]

Did Apple just admit they knew about the problem before releasing it? Couldn't the class action use this against them?

 

[«þ»]

Well 15 minutes in and Apple have confirmed what some here already knew - Apple are always right.

 

[Luckyman]

:lol :lol :lol

Apple is fucking brutal

 

[Ramma2]

Isn't there a middle ground of people who just think this is stupid? Do we have to declare sides? I have an iPhone and a Macbook Pro and I love them, but the iPhone 4.0 is a PR disaster - one where the most-oft repeated problem was "arrogance". And they are holding a press conference that is making it worse and more arrogant.

Agreed. I'm on my 3rd generation of ipod, my wife is on her 2nd of the iphone. I am a fan of both yet still I can see everything that is crazy about this.

 

[Flo_Evans]

Iphone 5 leaked...

 

[NYR]

0.55% of all iPhone customers have called AppleCare with an antenna issue?? Real good reason to call a press conference then...puh-lease!

 

[JudgeN]

Did they really compare the Iphone 4 to a god damn blackberry 9700? That phone is like 2 years old :lol

 

[Interfectum]

What? He said earlier they only found out 22 days ago :/

"but never did they anticipate it causing such a problem for consumers."