First!

Now, we can recap what we've learned from this:

1. All the analysts who chimed in on this don't know anything and can safely be ignored in the future.

2. In spite of hard data that the iPhone 4 is a great phone, the press managed to blow this up into a huge fiasco. Beware of sensationalistic junk you read in the press.

3. In spite of significant data that there's no problem, Apple once again stepped up with an extra to try to make customers happy. And then got criticized by the whiners...

4. Consumer Reports said that the iPhone 4 was the best phone out there except for the alleged reception problems and they couldn't recommend it unless Apple offered a free solution. Apple has done so - where is your recommendation, CR? So much for 'fair and unbiased"

5. All the reports of 'massive' 'universal' problems were grossly exaggerated. Do not believe that kind of hype.

Apple, you're out of your minds after having worked your butts off! Speak about your products. Only yours!

Your link to the video is wrong. It goes to the WWDC event last month.

All the sites that are saying today's press conference video is live all link to this WWDC event. They're all wrong.

The press conference could not have gone better for Apple. Nice job, Steve.

you could have helped, but you chose just to point out errors instead.
here's the link:
http://www.apple.com/apple-events/july-2010/

I loved the piece when Jobs revealed Apple sends a team of investigators with high tech equipment to the homes of customers who email him with supposedly reception problems.

Class!

Images of that scene from ET where they turn up at the house with Lab suits and Geiger counters spring to mind.

I can just their faces.

'ET iPhone home"

Spin control - Jobs is good at it. He said nothing that anyone hadn't already known, except to deny any prior knowledge of the problem, and promised nothing other than they were going to continue working to make the antenna issue less of an issue - and you get a free case (sorry, we can't take a hit on our bumper gross margins), so you get a nifty 50 cent case for your trouble.

They are obviously working on version 2 of the iP4, and I will wait until there is a hint of when it will arrive, because I got tired of dropping downloads all the time, which didn't happen in my 3G - ever. Yes, you infantile posters may label me a whiner, but I haven't had that argument since I was in 6th grade, so save your breath. I own a large amount of Apple stock, so it does me no good to continue to look on Jobs with a bit of skepticism, but he is, after all, a master, and you have to tip your cap to him, even if you can read between the lines just fine.

Your still in denial?? After Apple even admitted it? Come on now, multiple reviews have tested it an confirmed it. Many people I know have experienced the problem.

The fact is that Apple had a design constraint, the thinness, and had to engineer around that, resulting in risky antenna placement. Reports show that experts at Apple were very opposed to the idea, any other company would of ditched it and made the phone thicker. Steve took the risk, and now the phone is thinner.

This "flaw" is on every iphone, but depending on how you use it, you may notice it or not. People who value close to 100% reliability on their phones were disappointed by the service, and felt misled. Apple has corrected the issue by offering free returns.

However I'm willing to bet more people would just prefer the phone being thinner than having a dropped call here an then, who cares right. Well the iPhone is just not for business purposes, and other things that demand reliability out of a phone. One phone can't suit all, but for the vast majority who could care less about the occasional dropped call the iPhone's form factor is the best on the market right now.

My friends who use iPhone believe dropped calls are a "Fact of life" for all phones, and are fine with their iPhone 4 with a bumper. However I never, ever have dropped calls on Verizon, even the occasional dropped call on the iPhone 4 is simply a deal breaker for people like me, and I am disappointed that I'll have to buy something else. Realize that different people might have different needs than you do.

0.55% have called AppleCare

- How many have gone into the Apple Stores?
- How many have called or gone into AT&T?
- How many have gone back to Wal-Mart, RadioShack, BestBuy or any of the other outlets?

With these numbers, I think, the iPhone 4 will not look so good

Nice try Steve but Apple Care is not all of the facts.

And most if not all users have likely been told, there are fixes coming, hold on to your phone for awhile to see what they are coming up with.

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Well unless you can tell us the numbers it's pure speculation. Haven't we been here before.