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iPhone 4 Reception Recall Ruckus Roundup

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-luck-with-that dept.

Readers today have been sending tons of stories about the iPhone 4, so here are a few of the highlights: Following the Consumers Reports announcement that the iPhone has antenna problems, Andy Patrizio asks if Apple can withstand the pressure to recall, while CNet estimates that a recall would cost them $1.5B. But that's just the latest on the iPhone 4 — the long running carrier exclusivity lawsuit rumors have been upgraded to Class Action status.

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  1. Re:Stock is not a big problem. by Americano · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The UN has no power to "switch to a basket of currencies" - the UN can recommend all it likes, but the markets still choose for themselves what reserve currencies to use.

    Also, the SDR "basket" most certainly includes the dollar, and I've seen no discussion about excluding the dollar from the valuation of the SDR. Perhaps you'd care to share your sources of information, or are you just fearmongering?

    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65S40620100629

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Drawing_Rights

  2. Re:Stock is not a big problem. by immaterial · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Judging by the last $400 Toshiba a friend of mine purchased, it would have been 2" thick, have a whopping 2 hour battery life, and will inexplicably stop booting due to some mystery hardware flaw just outside the generous 90 day warranty window (not to mention it lacked a multitouch gesture-enabled trackpad, more solid case, and a few other things here and there... but since you couldn't be bothered to link your references I can't compare whatever it is you were really looking at). He ended up replacing it with a Macbook Pro and couldn't be happier.

  3. Re:Stock is not a big problem. by queequeg1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is getting really off topic but the suggestion that US went into Iraq the first time because of currency concerns is interesting. The US went into Iraq in January 1991, almost eight years before the euro was first used as a currency (and a year before the Treaty of Maastricht was even signed). I've seen numerous opinions about why currency issues motivated the current Iraq war (such as this one) but nothing on the first gulf war (but I admitedly haven't been actively looking for such stuff).