Obviously, there will be no recall.
Free bumpers and cases for all! Apple's solution to Antenna-gate (the hugeeeeee problem that when you pushed really, really hard on this one part of the phone, it would drop calls!) was announced on Friday, and the responses have varied. Apple decided to give free bumpers and cases to all iPhone users In general, I think most tech bloggers felt like it was a good solution. But the other day, Robbert Scoble made a great podcast about why the whole thing has been blown so far out of proportion.
Look at it this way. The phone is $200. For $200, you get email, web, the best (and newest) apps (and no, "we'll be launching our droid version soon" does not mean the droid has caught up), a video camera, voice recorder, mp3 player, the fastest mobile OS on the market, a GPS, and a video-conferencing center. Oh yea, and a phone. Pretty good deal, I'd say.
So there is one flaw. Which you can fix. By holding it differently or buying a bumper (or getting one for free).
I read somewhere that there was no need for a recall, especially since people weren't having their phones blow up in their hands, and I thought that was a great way of framing it.
A dropped call is not dangerous. A dropped call is not a threat to national security. A dropped call isn't even sad. There's no use crying over spilled milk. Get over it and redial.
I don't have my new iPhone yet, so I can't even honestly tout how great it is. But I will say, my BlackBerry consistently takes 30 seconds to open a text message, and that is really annoying. I pretty much have to hard reset every other day. Plus the thing is broken, so I have to take the battery out, charge it on a separate BB, then put it back in my phone. Annoying? Yes.
Anyway, I think people are just being dramatic. Give me the phone, I'll take the crappy service and move on with my sleek, beautiful, web-app filled life.
P.S. the apps I'm most looking forward to are RunKeeper and TripIt!
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