Apple Holding iPhone 4 Press Conference on Friday
File this under “uh-oh.” Apple has announced a press conference to talk about the iPhone 4 and likely the oft reported signal dropping problem. I haven’t talked about it here on Nerdology at all because I don’t have an iPhone 4 (yet) so I can’t really weigh in on the claims being made. From the people I know that do have one I hear that they are getting better reception than they had with their 3G or 3GS.
Are they issuing a recall on their newest handset? It’s possible. Though it is worth noting that the Telegraph estimates Apple would have to spend 1.5 billion dollars to recall and replace the millions of phones it already has on the market. That’s a lot of dollars and a lot of phones. It seems like that would make for a nightmare on the retail end of things, I’ve never been happier to be out of the retail game.
Even discussing an Apple recall is surprising to me. I mean, this is Apple. This is a company that brainwashes you (and me!) every press conference into thinking whatever they are selling is the best of the best of the best. There was a time when Intel chips were bad, when glossy screens were the best and when a phone only needed 16 applications.
Apple makes you think that there you are doing something wrong with their product not that they made a faulty one. Issuing a recall on their product is almost unthinkable… and that’s why I’m not 100% convinced that is what they are doing. Actually, no one knows for sure what they’re talking about on Friday. Maybe they won’t even bring up the problem. Maybe they’re announcing a Verizon partnership…
-Creighton
(P.S. Conspiracy theorists say that the delayed white iPhone is only coming to Verizoin. They also say it doesn’t have the signal problem. I don’t buy it but it’s worth bringing up.)
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