Steve Jobs: Just avoid holding it in that way

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Narmer

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This antenna problem can go away with a simple fix. What I would be worried about is dropping this phone because the back is made of glass and that can cut you. Form over function sucks.
 
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Narmer said:
This antenna problem can go away with a simple fix. What I would be worried about is dropping this phone because the back is made of glass and that can cut you. Form over function sucks.
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assuming you don't notice:p
probably like the screen it holsd together when cracked. so no big issue.
the good of the tear down is the backs easily replaced. as is the battery surprisingly enough
 
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Lifer
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This is what happens when an interior designer like Jobs hires his "engineers" from FIT instead of MIT.
 
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dwell said:
Yeah like the Nexus One have the same issues that Android fanboys defended to the hilt. And the EVO's horrendous battery life. Both issues still prevalent, BTW.
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With the Evo you can CHOOSE to turn off 4G so you get bettery battery and the Nexus One no one really cared about cus there are many Android devices you can choose from and only one Apple device. If you wan't an iPhone that's all you get. You can't choose the reception problem with this...........well I guess you can if you listen to Jobs, choose to hold it the way he wants you to or choose to buy a case. Sucks but hey he is the lord to you. I know I know you're so sore about this cus you always go on about how Apple products are so perfect.
 
Pliablemoose

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Steve Jobs said:
There is no reception problem. Stay tuned.
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:D

(And LOL at the Apple threads :D )

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Fayd

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taltamir said:
less energy per photon. not enough to do anything but be converted into heat. Obviously the quantity matters. Does your lightbulb use 1200 watts? Does it reflect all the light it emits off of mirrored walls of a small container until they hit food and are absorbed as heat by it?
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yes.

i cook all my food in an easy bake oven.
 
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abaez

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marvdmartian said:
Yes, but iphone owners in particular, and apple owners in general, tend to be a bit more DENSE than the rest of us. :rolleyes:

What amazes me is that all the apple employees that got one of these to test (including the moron who left his in the bar), and not ONE of them ever had this problem?? Or is this simply a matter of, "don't tell the boss, and you won't get fired"?? :hmm:
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The phone in the bar had a case on it to make it look like a 3G/3GS. I figure that any outside testing was done like this. For internal testing they probably have att microcells everywhere.
 
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taltamir said:
less energy per photon. not enough to do anything but be converted into heat. Obviously the quantity matters. Does your lightbulb use 1200 watts? Does it reflect all the light it emits off of mirrored walls of a small container until they hit food and are absorbed as heat by it?
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Does the power line to your home carry much more than 1200 watts of power? How about a radio station? Do they cause cancer?

Maybe it isn't just the quantity of power or energy? Maybe the wavelength matters in whether any given radiation will increase the risk of cancer or not.
 
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uclaLabrat

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Does the power line to your home carry much more than 1200 watts of power? How about a radio station? Do they cause cancer?

Maybe it isn't just the quantity of power or energy? Maybe the wavelength matters in whether any given radiation will increase the risk of cancer or not.
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Wavelength is pretty much the only thing that matters. Below UV, light doesn't (generally) have enough energy to knock an electron out of a bonding orbital (except in the case of conjugated dienes or aromatic systems). So when light hits a molecule, it excites an electron to a higher energy level, and which energy level it goes to is a function of the wavelength of light. Thus, IR light has an energy which corresponds to the energy of molecular vibrations, microwaves correspond to molecular rotations, visible light has the energy to promote electrons to high orbitals (in special cases mentioned above) and UV light has the energy to break bonds. Which is why UV light can cause cancer.
 
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It’s a pretty safe assumption that if you’re reading this blog, you’ve seen “The Matrix.” And you may or may not remember the scene where a kid explains to Neo that the trick to bending a spoon with your mind is simply to remember that, “There is no spoon.”
So it is with marketing. One thing I learned very early in life, thanks to intentional overuse of psychedelic drugs, is that there is no reality. As a guy at the commune once put it: “The reality is, there is no reality.”
So some guy says his iPhone 4 is having reception issues. I say there is no reception issue. Now it’s his reality against my reality. Which one of us is living in the real reality?
There’s a two-part answer: 1, there is no real reality, and 2, it doesn’t matter.
The only thing that matters is which reality our customers will choose to adopt as their own.
Of course most people would rather live in a reality where everything works and there are no problems. And now, thanks to me, that reality exists. Because I’ve created that reality for them.
Probably the biggest thing I’ve taught the team at Apple is that people never know what they’re supposed to think about anything. This is true in Hollywood, in the book business, in the art world, in politics. And especially in technology.
So we put out a new phone and everyone is sitting there wondering what they should think about it. What I realized many years ago — and honestly, it still amazes me — is that most people are so unsure of themselves that they will think whatever we tell them to think.
So we tell people that this new phone is not just an incremental upgrade, but rather is the biggest breakthrough since the original iPhone in 2007. We say it’s incredible, amazing, awesome, mind-blowing, overwhelming, magical, revolutionary. We use these words over and over.
It’s all patently ridiculous, of course. But people believe it.
We demo FaceTime, and we say that nobody in the world has ever seen anything like this before. Jonny and I act stunned and gob-smacked, as if we ourselves still can’t believe that we’ve just invented video chat.
Again, this is utterly untrue, a total and absolute lie. But people accept it. They hoot and cheer for us.
The other strategy we use comes from Zen Buddhism. You ever study Zen koans? Most of them make no sense at all. You read them and you go away feeling confused and stupid.
We do something similar. We call it “clouding.” Right now, for example, we’ve sent out the following messages about iPhone 4 and the antenna issues:
1. All mobile phones have this problem.
2. Our mobile phone does not have this problem.
You see how this works? These two statements cannot both be true.
Yet we’ve said both of them. And now you don’t know what to believe.
Ask any psychologist what happens to people when they get confused. Their heart rate goes up. Their skin temperature rises. Adrenaline starts to flow.
They feel desperate, and scared, as if they’ve fallen out of a boat and now they’re getting tossed by waves and they’re maybe going to drown.
Now all you have to do is reach out with some kind of certainty, and no matter how obviously untrue it might be, people will latch onto it.
Every religion in the world knows this, from the Catholics to the Scientologists. It’s the oldest trick in the book. You create some uncertainty, you put people at risk — you tell them they’re going to hell, or whatever — and then you hold out the answer.
No matter how ridiculous your answer may be — like, the one about the galactic ruler Xenu, or the one where God turns into a bird and flies down to earth and impregnates a virgin — people will accept it.
Not only that, they’ll actually thank you for feeding them this horseshit. Because any certainty, no matter how crazy, is better than uncertainty.
Which brings me back to iPhone 4 and the antenna issue. Right now you’re confused. You’re worried. You don’t know what to believe. You just wish someone would come along and tell you that everything is squared away and there’s nothing to worry about.
Well, stay tuned for that. And remember: There is no spoon.
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http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/06/there-is-no-spoon.html

Fake Steve rules :D
 
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