Ouch!

"If my former english teacher hadn't been found floating face down in a Spanish swimming pool"

Ouch! Not trying to outdo you here but...

My former Chemistry teacher was found decapitated at the side of a railway line :(

Not to mention

criterion (sing.), criteria (pl.)

invite (verb), invitation (noun)

one (indirect accusative), you (direct accusative)

E.g. "The criterion for receiving an invitation to my pedants' party is that one is a pedant"

NOT "The criteria for receiving an invite to my pedants' party is that you are a pedant".

Software Fix the Bars

They are going to software fix the bars to coverup the issue

@the bat

No, they are going to fix one problem.

If the other one exists truly, they'll have to deal with that one next.

Sarcasm?

Jon Gruber is a corporate shill - but without the corporate responsibility.

Jon Gruber's post

I don't know this blogger but reading that as a first article gave me the impression that he works for Apple's marketing department.

Shill?

Gruber's openly pro Apple but he's no shill.

His analysis in this case is spot on and, as a bonus, genuinely humorous.

Jon Gruber assasinates Apple, when necessary

Yeah, he's pro-Apple, but he calls them out as twatty, when they behave in a twatty way.

Really?

I've now had 7 3G phones in the last 9 years (some personal, some corporate) and have never experienced this problem. I have never, ever resorted to placing a phone down on a surface just to make a call.

These phones include 1-off LG, 4-off Nokia, 2-off HTC. Additionally, various family members and friends have also had a variety of phones (including earlier iPhones) and I've not heard any of them complain about this issue.

You're analogy is flawed: the Apple problem is indeed a physics problem, but in the same way that getting electrocuted off bare mains cables is a physics problem. How do we prevent electrocution from mains cable? The exact same way we do with mobile phone antennae. The antennae should be appropriately insulated, perhaps by a thin coating of colourless plastic, in order to ensure a user doesn't bridge the antennae when using the phone as a phone.

Toyota is still the same...

Toyota still remains the same lying arrogant company they always have been. They've been sued in just about every country in the World for holding back safety fixes and reports. They will never change. Mark my words.

Apple is only a close second to this. They spin the marketing to gain public favor so hard, it churns more than just heads. It churns bellies too. Bellies of those smart enough to see through the B.S.

Both companies make good equipment, most of the time. But the World would be a far better place without their PR spin trying to save face everytime something tilts ever so slightly. That are blatant lies. Fail on epic porportions.

Sorry, but...

I just got the Froyo update over the air this weekend. A background download of 45Mb, three minutes to install and reboot, and hey presto! A faster phone and better battery life. I can live without facetime* (tm) and my screen is excellent, thank you very much. The Nexus One is once again running a faster OS than the iPhone 4 and its multitasking doesn't completely suspend applications not running in the foreground. Suck on that, iPhone lovers!

*Disclaimer: Facetime only works between iPhone 4 users where both users are in a WiFi hotspot and is subject to available bandwidth and your acceptance that:you will look like a complete knob-end, you may walk into a lamp post, you will no doubt find that whenever you actually want to use Facetime, your friends are not in a WiFi hotspot. Apple has generously provided a Facetime 'help line' to allow you to pose with your new iPhone 4 in public when you can't find anyone else to Facetime, this alone is the reason you owe us, bitch, and will immediately upgrade to the iPhone 5 in 12 months time without a thought to battery life or antenna issues. Not that it's an issue of course, you're holding it wrong, dammit.

true

as a former employee forced as a result of attempting to get a union in the cork callcenter i can totally agree.

The cult of apple thinks its God

RE: Sorry, but...

It's also susceptible to you installing whatever guff you like on it, spyware, malware, adware and all other sorts of guff.

Just for the record, I tested my iPhone and it doesn't suspend applications not running in the foreground. I did this by starting a webpage loading (one that was large in terms of data) and then flicking to another application. When I flicked back, the webpage had loaded. So FAIL there for repeating the guff that the other ignormai have fed to you.

Suck on that baw-heid.

"*Disclaimer [snip]"

Not sure what that has to do with this article, you're obviously just off on an ill-tempered rant. Maybe not that different from Jobs himself!

"you may walk into a lamp post"

If you're walking down the street, there's little reason to use Facetime. Other people aren't interested in seeing the contents of your nose while you check for traffic and avoid lamp-posts!

Bunker: ...

... euphemism for basement.

@Link who knows Steve personally

Please, since you know him personally, can you arrange for me to meet him? I have some things I'd like to say to him and I'm sure the way you speak of him and his attitudes that you know him personally and well. That's great - I'd love to speak with him, as would a lot of people on this forum I'm sure.

So, when can we expect to meet him?

@STB

I can almost see the tears running down your face

Why aren't Nokia, LG, Samsung, HTC, etc. not also being hounded? → #

Probably becuase they didnt stick the antenna on the outside of a metal cased phone in a dumb place so consequently they still worked.

7 phones, 10 years but one common denominator, as Steve said your gripping it wrong!

Paris - she knows how to grip it

@Sean

The reason is that there are all these Fandroids waiting in the wings to pounce on anything which shines Apple in a bad light. The reasons for their attitude, I don't care - they aren't justified in any way in their heinous and offensive attitudes, which is all about revelling in the misfortune of others, and decrying the idiocy of anyone that isn't 110% anti-Apple.

That's the reason no one goes after Nokia and the other handset manufacturers who have the same problem.

The irony is that Fandroids attack Apple fans and declare them to be sheep, yet they are the ones that allow themselves to influenced by sensationalist media writing articles with the sole purpose of selling more papers, which drives more advertising revenue. Who's the sheep? Well, I think that's obvious.

Speak the truth to power, Brother!

Yes, there's no story here at all Matthew Barker...

Just that 2m people have bought a flawed product and Apple pretends the flaw isn't there.

No story at all. Move along people, and let Brother Barker sing for you on your way out.

@lawsuits

sod 30 days...sale of goods act... get them to fix or replace it and you can take up to 5 years to do so. Apple is acting like a dodgy 1970's second hand car salesman, whose latest polished turd stinks and is trying to tell you it's your nose that's in error....IMHO of course

Uh Huh

Pushing it out despite it flaws. Sounds like Apple's version of Vista-like thinking.

That's really low you SOB

And salute you for it, sir!

Actually...

It sounds more like Apple Snow Leopard thinking... How quickly people forget...

P.S. Posted using my iPhone 4 with which I am quite happy

A Little Antenna Theory ..

... goes a long way. I think Apple just need to come out with a full wave vertically polarized dipole in a head gear apparatus and be done with it.