E-Dribble

The final numbers are in and it seems that 1.5 million people are now the proud owners of an Apple iPhone4.  In my reader, I had to suffer through two days worth of reports concerning fanbois and tech addicts standing in queues up to 48 hours to pick up their pre-ordered phone.  For my patience, I was rewarded almost immediately upon the phone’s release with reports of bugs and problems, the two most prominent being yellow spots on the screen and the fact that you have to hold the phone a certain way or risk a degradation of cell signal.

Let me be completely honest.  I assumed this was a case of rotten grapes at first, and could picture Apple haters everywhere trying to pick the phone apart.  In the case of the yellow spots, it seems that might be the case, as the spots purportedly disappear as the adhesive between the plates of glass disappear when dry.  The cell signal deal seems to have teeth, however.  Tons of reports have confirmed that if you hold the phone while touching the antenna band on both sides of the face(the most common method of holding any phone), you’ll notice signal deterioration.

So 1.5 million early adopters have been rewarded with a phone that drops calls if they hold it a certain way.  Apple must be scrambling to fix this.  Well maybe, but if they are, nobody has told Steve Jobs.  When asked, he responded via email “Non issue.  Just avoid holding it in that way.“  The article continues to let you know that you can purchase a $30 rubber band to keep from touching the antenna in an effort to restore the functionality of the phone.

The whole thing makes me giggle.  Steve Jobs telling everyone that spent too much money on his phone was just told by him to quit their bitching and hold the phone some other way or buy a $30 rubber band for their new phone.

Which makes him the genius he is.  If anyone would pay $30 for a band of rubber, it’s someone that would stand in line for up to 48 hours for the iPhone.