You are holding it wrong!

I remember the day when Steven Jobs officially introduced iphone4. I was eager to check out videos, conference announcements and see press releases about this product.
But this was Steven’s least favorite presentation. Might be because millions had already seen iphone 4 after Gizmodo got its hands on the prototype.

Honestly speaking I don’t think that affected anything. People are still crazy about Apple products and will always be. And why not, People are been dreaming about video calling for a while now. It has a very high resolution; it showed us a new way of multitasking.

With an excellent reputation in the market; people wanting to have it and competitors envying it, I really can’t find a reason why Apple is always reluctant to except software issues if any. Come on at last it’s a machine. Apple replied back to the reception issues that customers are facing saying that it’s just the physical location of your hand that is wrong. Official statement from Apple says:

Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases

So now Apple is also trying to teach people how to hold mobile phones, sorry let me correct myself... how to hold IPHONES. As of now moving the reception antenna to some other location is not a solution.

This makes me wonder, I have always blamed Microsoft for their theory of using their customers as a geniis, but is it the same with Apple.

Whatever may be it, I think iphone has built a reputation that I still love it.
But yeah... in a company where I work this would have been a “design defect” .