19th July 2010

Photo reblogged from Tom Lawrence with 3 notes

Shit, I’m never buying Apple again, what wankers! tomlawrence: Wow, I am literally stunned by Apple’s response to the antenna issue. They essentially attempted to redirect the negative press on signal attenuation onto other manufacturer’s handsets; quite possibly the most distasteful and pathetic option the company could have chosen. On top of all of that, they put together some seriously bullshit statistics such as how only 0.55% of iPhone users have called AppleCare about antenna or reception problems. What they forgot to tell you is the percentage of iPhone 4 users who have actually purchased the iPhone AppleCare Protection Plan. Lets face it, complaints of this problem were entered into a comment box on every tech-related web site. The actual number of users who have complained is far greater than your mere 0.55%. Lets look at the statistic on return rates, where it is written in smaller text that the 1.7% returns rate is only on AT&T early shipments. Remember that this phone is available in however many countries, narrowing down a good percentage of users right there. Exactly what counts as an early shipment? Any time between the release date and now? A pre-order (most likely)?. A phone that was dispatched earlier than the release date? This statistic isn’t made clear and I would love to know as a percentage how many of those 3,000,000 iPhone 4’s are AT&T ‘early shipments’. My guess is nowhere near as many as the hundreds of thousands of people that queued outside shops all around the world for this device. To top the presentation off, Apple showcased the company’s arrogance by stating that “we think it’s affecting a small batch, but it has to do with inherent problems in smartphones. But we want all of our users to be happy” by providing us with a free bumper case as if they are the only smartphone on the market who now has a phone with no signal attenuation problems. To also state that they don’t reckon they owe investors an apology is downright rude. These are the people that provide you with financial backing. They expect you to be safe with their money and use it to test products before shipping them, regardless of how much stock prices dropped by. Oh, and they couldn’t resist taking another stab at Gizmodo in the Q&A. It’s this kind of arrogance that tempts me to trade in my iPhone 4 on signal problems and go pick up an Android phone like the Samsung Galaxy S or HTC Desire. — You can read Engadget’s live blog of today’s press conference here.

Shit, I’m never buying Apple again, what wankers!

tomlawrence:

Wow, I am literally stunned by Apple’s response to the antenna issue.

They essentially attempted to redirect the negative press on signal attenuation onto other manufacturer’s handsets; quite possibly the most distasteful and pathetic option the company could have chosen.

On top of all of that, they put together some seriously bullshit statistics such as how only 0.55% of iPhone users have called AppleCare about antenna or reception problems. What they forgot to tell you is the percentage of iPhone 4 users who have actually purchased the iPhone AppleCare Protection Plan. Lets face it, complaints of this problem were entered into a comment box on every tech-related web site. The actual number of users who have complained is far greater than your mere 0.55%.

Lets look at the statistic on return rates, where it is written in smaller text that the 1.7% returns rate is only on AT&T early shipments. Remember that this phone is available in however many countries, narrowing down a good percentage of users right there. Exactly what counts as an early shipment? Any time between the release date and now? A pre-order (most likely)?. A phone that was dispatched earlier than the release date? This statistic isn’t made clear and I would love to know as a percentage how many of those 3,000,000 iPhone 4’s are AT&T ‘early shipments’. My guess is nowhere near as many as the hundreds of thousands of people that queued outside shops all around the world for this device.

To top the presentation off, Apple showcased the company’s arrogance by stating that “we think it’s affecting a small batch, but it has to do with inherent problems in smartphones. But we want all of our users to be happy” by providing us with a free bumper case as if they are the only smartphone on the market who now has a phone with no signal attenuation problems. To also state that they don’t reckon they owe investors an apology is downright rude. These are the people that provide you with financial backing. They expect you to be safe with their money and use it to test products before shipping them, regardless of how much stock prices dropped by.

Oh, and they couldn’t resist taking another stab at Gizmodo in the Q&A. It’s this kind of arrogance that tempts me to trade in my iPhone 4 on signal problems and go pick up an Android phone like the Samsung Galaxy S or HTC Desire.

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You can read Engadget’s live blog of today’s press conference here.

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    Shit, I’m never buying...again, what wankers!
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    act like this… gosh...annoy me. They’re handling...so...
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