It seems like I saw an article about Apple every day this week on a different topic. On Monday, Information Week called Apple out on being the worst in security. On Tuesday, Apple was still battling Psystar who attempted to create lower cost Mac computer. Wednesday showed some good news with Millenial Media reporting Apple at a 56% share of the smartphone marketplace based on ad views. Thursday Apple released iOS 4.01 for the iPhone 4 plus iPad OS 3.2.1.
Finally, we come to Friday and the mea culpa that wasn't. It probably wasn't the apology that everyone was hoping for, though according to the reports, Jobs did apologize a few times in there. But to those who are having an issue now, there's no immediate fix - nor any promise of a case free future. There has also been a lot of skepticism about the videos they showed with other smart phones doing the same thing. I was skeptical as well.
I happen to have a Blackberry Tour issued to me for work purposes. At a location about 400 feet from a freeway with 4 bars I watched the signal closely. Cupping it in my hand similar to the way I would hold my iPhone resulted in a 2 bar drop within 10 seconds. This was repeatable several times and made a believer out of me.
My biggest disappointment seems to be that Apple settled at par rather than getting out of the box in terms of both design and performance. Maybe the iPhone 5 will see an improvement.
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