AN EMBARRASSED Apple has sent out a letter explaining its take on the Iphone 4 antenna problem.
Apparently everyone in cappuccino land was shocked when people started being nasty about its latest shiny toy and, convinced it couldn't possibly be a problem with the hardware, decided to look elsewhere for a problem.
The good news for fanbois and Creationists is that it's all science's fault. Bloody science.
The letter starts by telling us that the Iphone 4 was the most successful launch in Apple's history, which is news to us since all we've heard are complaints, and it adds that gripping any phone will reduce its reception. Presumably it's talking about a Lenny in "Of Mice and Men" vice-like grip.
What came next had us wondering whether this was some sort of spoof.
"We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both simple and surprising," writes the Apple PR Machine.
"Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength." Stunned? So were we. Anyway, it carries on.
"For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don't know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place."
So, holding an Iphone 4 does not ruin reception, instead it temporarily fixes a maths and science phone display signal problem? Well, that explains everything. And to think we thought it was the antenna.
Apple claims the formula issue affects all Iphones but no one from the company was available to explain why these apparent legacy antenna issues did not see earlier widespread complaints about signal quality.
The fix is to make the Iphone display bars show the correct reception in any given area, which is such a great idea that we can only hope that other firms continue to follow Apple's lead.
Further distracting people from what might be the real issue, Apple's PR team adds that bars 1, 2 and 3 will be made taller, making them easier to see. Or maybe, making users think the signal is stronger.
It's great to see Apple tackling this issue head-on.
Source:
http://theinquirer.net
