User options? Force you? We are talking antennas here. Nobody is forcing anybody, nobody is limiting your options or forcing you to do anything. Don't panic please!
Other than forcing you to hold it differently, of course...
Spraying microwaves around and possibly inducing mass blindness is not going to look good in the history books.
Absolutely, because spraying microwaves around that could cause potential mass blindness is so much worse than spraying lead around to cause actual death.
This seems like a power play to provide more relevance to Consumer's Union than a specific attack on Apple. I am by no means an Apple fan but this issue seems potentially overstated.
Absolutely overstated! I mean, who really wants their phone to actually BEHAVE as a phone! Insanity, I tell you, insanity!
What would would happen if you posted a random Linux article and ended it with "... but as we all know Linux users are a bunch of basement dwelling nerds" you think ?
I can't tell what you're referring to but if you are talking about the faulty Wiimote wrist-straps that they replaced for everybody shortly after launch, those weren't optional accessories that you had to pay extra for.
I'd say an antenna that doesn't short out by holding the phone a pretty non-optional accessory that I have to pay extra for...
You're thinking that Apple is a small company that cares about customer experience. The truth is that Apple is a megacorporation that cares about the bottom line a lot more than any individual or small group of potential users. Only that enough of their current users will pony up money for the next shiny iProduct. And if telling you that you're holding it wrong will not jeopardize that future sale, then suck it up and live with it - you're not getting a free case.
Short term, Apple. Long term, Nokia. Being in a fickle, narrow niche means one stumble and you're seriously hurt. Say, a stumble like releasing a phone with antenna and proximity sensor problems.
Great! Let's do this one-by-one, and I'll even start. I'll open with the Magnuson Moss Act of 1975 in the US; your car manufacturer cannot limit the warranty based upon who made or installed the aftermarket part.
Your turn - can you name one country (with reference, please) that allows a car manufacturer to limit the warranty to only cover factory-made parts installed at factory dealerships?
Apparently the fanbois are strong here now... I guess since they cannot use the iPhones (with the antenna and prox sensor issues), they have to surf/. and defend Stevie's honor...
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Yeah, it's not ecologically sensitive, but it'd be a LOT of fun...
That's an easy problem to solve, just need to get a few of the investigators at the FTC to transfer over to NASA and we're set!
They could have just given me a few hundred thousand and I'd confirm for them that the Earth is hospitable for humans!
You mean to tell me that my BFG 9000 was simply made up, it does not match a real world device?
Yes, yes I do. We used Teflon tape to fix his issue.
How many more stories about this crap? The holy iPhone has a small defect.
If you consider the inability to use the phone AS a phone a small defect, then of course you're 100% correct...
See update 4. Completely losing your upload speed, and being unable to make a phone call, pretty much confirms a loss of all real-world signal.
You just won the Spamalot achievement - congratulations!
User options? Force you? We are talking antennas here. Nobody is forcing anybody, nobody is limiting your options or forcing you to do anything. Don't panic please!
Other than forcing you to hold it differently, of course...
As good as a blackberry for business? Perhaps not, but it's pretty close imho.
Let me put it this way--having used both, I don't see any compelling features of the Blackberry that would make me want to get one over an iPhone
Well, you can hold the Blackberry and make a phone call, does that count?
Spraying microwaves around and possibly inducing mass blindness is not going to look good in the history books.
Absolutely, because spraying microwaves around that could cause potential mass blindness is so much worse than spraying lead around to cause actual death.
Exactly. Everyone knows the only OS that gets to claim invulnerability is OSX...
This seems like a power play to provide more relevance to Consumer's Union than a specific attack on Apple. I am by no means an Apple fan but this issue seems potentially overstated.
Absolutely overstated! I mean, who really wants their phone to actually BEHAVE as a phone! Insanity, I tell you, insanity!
With this latest fiasco with the iPhone 4, are we sure it's been the AT&T network all along instead of poor phone design?
Linux users are a bunch of differently socially enabled technologists who prefer to reside in subterranean abodes.
What would would happen if you posted a random Linux article and ended it with "... but as we all know Linux users are a bunch of basement dwelling nerds" you think ?
The truth should never be insulting...
I can't tell what you're referring to but if you are talking about the faulty Wiimote wrist-straps that they replaced for everybody shortly after launch, those weren't optional accessories that you had to pay extra for.
I'd say an antenna that doesn't short out by holding the phone a pretty non-optional accessory that I have to pay extra for...
You're thinking that Apple is a small company that cares about customer experience. The truth is that Apple is a megacorporation that cares about the bottom line a lot more than any individual or small group of potential users. Only that enough of their current users will pony up money for the next shiny iProduct. And if telling you that you're holding it wrong will not jeopardize that future sale, then suck it up and live with it - you're not getting a free case.
Were they holding it wrong?
What restricts a developer from including iAds in their paid-for application?
Until those ads suck up your 2 GB monthly bandwidth allotment. Nothing like paying people to advertise to you!
Short term, Apple. Long term, Nokia. Being in a fickle, narrow niche means one stumble and you're seriously hurt. Say, a stumble like releasing a phone with antenna and proximity sensor problems.
Just send off a rocket full of this.
Prove it.
Great! Let's do this one-by-one, and I'll even start. I'll open with the Magnuson Moss Act of 1975 in the US; your car manufacturer cannot limit the warranty based upon who made or installed the aftermarket part.
Your turn - can you name one country (with reference, please) that allows a car manufacturer to limit the warranty to only cover factory-made parts installed at factory dealerships?
Apparently the fanbois are strong here now... I guess since they cannot use the iPhones (with the antenna and prox sensor issues), they have to surf /. and defend Stevie's honor...