“Well, duh,” Diaz writes. “As Adrian Kingsley-Hughes pointed out in a post of his own this morning, the antenna problem on the iPhone 4 isn’t a software issue. It’s a design defect. And his advice is simple: either live with it or return it.”
MacDailyNews Take: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is a well-known anti-Apple scribbler who delights in overblowing any “issue,” real or concocted, and spinning against Apple. Reading his pieces in hindsight is always good for a laugh. Whatever he purports to be “threats” to Apple have never seemed to hurt Apple’s unit sales or stock price at all.
Diaz continues, “As the iPhone 4 bashing continues, I can’t help but wonder if the folks in Cupertino are getting a little taste of what Redmond must have been feeling when everyone was bashing Windows Vista – stuck between a rock and a hard place because there’s really no quick answer to give iPhone owners. Well, nothing beyond 1) scale down to a previous version, 2) buy from a competitor or 3) wait for the next update.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Diaz’s desperation is palpable and laughable.
I have one word for fat Sam:
Diet.
What a ridiculous premise. Vista was irretrievable piece of sh!t that took years to replace. Apple will have both software and manufacturing fixes in the pipeline within this month.
For those of us lucky enough to have an iPhone 4 in our hands today, this is indeed laughable. With out hesitation I can tell you, this iPhone rocks!
without Apple, WTF would he have to write about?
And, who would listen?
“…there’s really no quick answer …”
I thought buying a case was a quick answer. Besides, who would not want some color to identify their iPhone?
Although some may want to use it naked I would think, and the ones I have seen in use, have had cases. Who wants to not protect their iPhone with a case of some sort?
I’m sure M$ wished a case would have been a quick fix for Vista.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt
No way. The iPhone 4 is amazing. Period.
A *real* Vista would be the Nexus One, for Google.
Did you just quote Roosevelt on MDN? Be prepared to get permabanned and have your post deleted.
Hi Five, Larry.
One’s political beliefs does not prohibit great thoughts or deeds.
SJ put it best when he had enough of the email exchange with that drunk Gawker blogger:
“By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?”
The sheer volume of bottom-feeders looking to cash in on Apple’s innovations by nitpicking and hyperbolizing is simply staggering.
the difference is that unlike vista the iPhone 4 is selling like hot cakes or hadn’t he noticed
A better smartphone comparison to Windows Vista would be the, uh, Microsoft Kin.
The other difference is that the iPhone problems are mostly made up from others who want to bash Apple. I’ve been using my iPhone 4 and have none of the issues that have been way over blown all over the internet. I love my new iPhone 4!!!!!
As for Vista, that was one of the worst operating systems to ever be released and there is no comparing that to some made up over blown issues that people have been talking about on the internet with the iPhone 4. If your are going to choke any phone, your hand will make the signals drop, period!
It’s not as bad as the Vista fiasco, but iPhone 4 does have a design defect. As theloniousMac noted on an earlier thread, Apple may start adding a protective coating to the external antennas on the next production run, but a redesign will need to wait until the advent iPhone 5.
I suspect that iPhone 5 may arrive a little earlier than expected, but one thing is reasonably certain — it will not feature this particular antenna design.
Germany-0, Spain-0. halftime.
T. Roosevelt: Bull Moose Party.
A President that actually DID field dress a moose…
I have low regard for critics. While critical writing has its place in journalism or essay, no achievement is attained. To paraphase – “Those who can, do. Those that cannot, teach. And those that cannot teach, critique.”
Sam Diaz is a hack.
I think he’s right on target. The new phone is fatally flawed. It doesn’t work. Apple should recall them all, fix the antenna design, and offer discounted versions of the new model that evolves from this catastrophic blunder to everyone who was victimized by Steve Jobs’ lies during the WWDC launch.
I have Two Words for Sam, “Dream On”
@Contrarian
Doesn’t work? Do you have one? I do, and it works better than the iPhone 3GS if I chose to hold it in one of the thousand ways one can hold the phone without causing the antenna to malfunction. A cell phone doesn’t work well in an elevator. Does that mean I should only judge its performance in an elevator? I for one like the new design which works better than before, if I don’t try to intentionally sabotage it.
1 word…. douche
Catastrophic blunder? Fatally flawed? Is English your second language?