First we have the iPhone 4 antenna issue. Then we have Steve Jobs saying "there is no issue, [only Zuul]." Then we have Apple saying "we were aware of it."
And the beat goes on.
Today, AT&T has stepped in the iPoo too. Apple Inc. has responded with "we're stunned" after finding out that their iPhones use a "totally wrong" formula to show just how many bars of signal strength they are really getting. Now Apple is saying... drum roll please... that THIS is why the bars are dropping when you hold your phone... [wrong]. We've all seen the videos where the bars drop at a tremendous pace. The drop seems exaggerated because the phone is improperly calculating, and therefore displaying, four or five bars of signal strength when it shouldn't, Apple said. "Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place," the company said in an official statement.
There are no bars, only Zuul.
So this is all new news, right? Wrong. The original iPhone in 2007, along with the following 3G and 3GS, suffered from this miscalculation as well. "We will fix its signal strength formula to conform to other AT&T phones through a free software update for iPhone models 3G, 3Gs and 4 within a few weeks. We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit taller so they will be easier to see," Apple said.
So lets recap here:
- No signal.
- You're doing it wrong.
- We knew about this.
- Go buy a case.
- There is no problem.
- Miscalculation.
- Signal isn't real.
- It's not our fault.
What do you think the next excuse is? My vote is "the dog ate it."
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