As recently announced by Engadget, Apple is holding a press conference this Friday, presumably to deal head-on with the iPhone 4 antenna issues that refuse to die.
(For the record, I have an iPhone 4 and yes, I can easily reproduce the "death grip" on mine, and I bought my $30 bumper to mitigate the issue).
So without further delay, here are my predictions for what I think will happen, in order of probability:
100%:- Apple is sorry people "feel inconvenienced".
- Apple denies there is, in fact, a problem with the antenna design.
- Apple bans all "Consumer Reports" testers from Apple stores.
95%:
- Free bumpers for everyone. Refunds to suckers customers who bought one already.
- Apple is "taking it seriously".
50%:
- Apple acknowledges the positioning of the antenna is "unfortunate" but does not reduce the "revolutionary" design
- Apple restates that people need to hold the phone in a way that does not block the antenna.
25%:
- Apple issues a recall; redesigns phone with pre-installed covering over antenna array.
5%:
- Apple issues a recall; completely redesigns the antenna array to avoid a single area of interference.
1%:
- Apple hires a frakking RF/antenna engineer who could have told them that putting an antenna on the outside of the phone was a boneheaded move in the first place.
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