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From: zoara on 6 Jul 2010 10:17 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > >>> I think Apple knew about this and thought it to be something they > > > can >>> get away with. Call it a deliberate design tradeoff. Would have been >>> much easier on them if they had included a bumper in the box and got >>> the >>> signal bars right from the beginning, though. >> >> I really can't see them ever considering putting a bumper in the box. >> Apple is too design-focused for that kind of kludge. > > Well, I would think it would be better than having to go back and > redesiggn the phone, as presumably that would mean they would have to > replace the 2 million already out there I think that the vast majority of people aren't seeing any issues. For the minority that are, an unofficial "return it or have a free bumper" policy is much more likely, I reckon. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 6 Jul 2010 11:08 Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> writes: > >> This one has certainly been garnering less attention than the signal >> issue, but there's definitely been some bad noise about it too. It >> sort of seems like it could be a software issue and thus easily > > fixed, >> but who knows... > > There will be a letter from Apple advising you how to hold it to your > ear to make it work ;-) > >> Anyone who's keen to get an iPhone 4 right now is pretty brave, if > > you >> ask me. > > Well, you can always try it for a while and give it back then. I doubt it will be easy to cancel your contract and go back to the old one. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 6 Jul 2010 16:22 R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> I think that the vast majority of people aren't seeing any issues. > > For >> the minority that are, an unofficial "return it or have a free > > bumper" >> policy is much more likely, I reckon. > > According to an internal Apple document (apparently): > > "We ARE NOT appeasing customers with free bumpers – > DON'T promise a free bumper to customers." > > http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/06/29/leaked-apples-internal-iphone- > 4-antenna-troubleshooting-procedures/ > > I leave it to you to determine the veracity or otherwise > of that report :) I'm sure that's current policy. I'm talking about what they *could* do, and what I think is more likely than a "bumper in the box" policy. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Jochem Huhmann on 6 Jul 2010 17:44 me32(a)privacy.net (R) writes: > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> I think that the vast majority of people aren't seeing any issues. For >> the minority that are, an unofficial "return it or have a free bumper" >> policy is much more likely, I reckon. > > According to an internal Apple document (apparently): > > "We ARE NOT appeasing customers with free bumpers – > DON'T promise a free bumper to customers." Which only proves that the idea itself is there... Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Sak Wathanasin on 7 Jul 2010 03:37
On 7 July, 07:33, Ian McCall <i...(a)eruvia.org> wrote: > Roll on iPhone 5. There won't be an iPhone 5 if they don't sort this and soon. |