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That’s what Rosa from Gizmodo thinks.
I hope it’s true. Because, personally, I’ve experienced the ‘Death Grip’ only one time. The biggest flaw I found on the iPhone 4 was the proximity sensor not recognizing my cheek and hanging up on everybody. Bastard.
TechCrunch’s founder Michael Arrington was debating with John Gruber, MG Siegler and Jason Kincaid about Apple’s press conference. The video is above.
He says that there were two key messages from the event. First, that there’s no iPhone antenna issue and second that Apple was going to give out free cases but the second point is paradoxical since there is no iPhone antenna issue.
Well.
First. Steve Jobs apologized. “We are not perfect” is kind of the most honest way Jobs could apologize. The Economist’s tech blog seems to have noticed it, too. So, there is a problem. Jobs, in a childish way, of course, said that other phones have the same problem etc. In what possible way, Mr. Arrington, does that mean that the iPhone has no problems? In no way.
Second — Case made. Apple wants to keep its users happy, so they give them cases.
TechCrunch’s long-time iPhone lover MG Siegler wrote an excellent article about fanboyism entitled You Are Not Your F*cking Khakis—inspired by Tyler Durden—(But You May Be Your Phone).
It tries to explain something clearly: you can love iPhone 4 and everything related but loving it blindly—understand defending it blindly against true criticism regarding its antenna issues—is odd. Then, he says that he tested the HTC EVO 4G, the seriously flawed device that has a very poor battery life and that commenters were pissed at him because he wrote negative things about it. The most interesting detail is that the majority of the pissed commenters didn’t actually use or test the device.
Are they idiots? No, absolutely not. Yet, for them, psychologically, they understood that a trusted person (a TechCrunch writer) was being negative about a decision they made (Buying an HTC EVO 4G). What should we learn about that? Well, people have closed minds.
Now, there’s one more thing.
I don’t think Apple is going to make anything about the antenna issue. They have made their decision mocking people with this absurd letter and Steve is happy with it. So, they’re going to let it flow, gently and nicely.
Or, they could make a great, great PR move but don’t bet on it.
UPDATE: This article properly displays the links.
Users begin to report issues. Thanks AppleInsider for making news out of it. Add my voice.
Well, Steve, man, it seems like you’ve been pwnd.
Finally, it happened, the iPhone 4 is now official and everybody’s happy—I hope. Now, the iPhone 4 is indeed a beast that beats other smartphones like Master Chief beats Covenants, yet, if you didn’t find a satisfying article about it, summing up the most important innovations, I guess MobileCrunch made a pretty good review.
One more thing… As Martin Bryant noticed, the most important thing wasn’t the iPhone 4 announcement. It was the name change from iPhone OS to iOS. This OS is now free from its iPhone name, so it can fit other devices—how awesome would an Apple watch be?
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