iPhone 4 Signal Saga Continues – Did Apple Know?
News of the day seems to be a series of job postings at Apple – no less than eight – for antenna engineers. Posted on June 23rd, the day before the launch of iPhone IV (or, 4, if you’re not into epic things), the postings raise some suspicion about the alleged signal failure problem, and whether or not Apple might have suspected something was up with the device before it hit the market – or at least after the flood of signal complaints on the afternoon of the 23rd. Whatever the case, Apple isn’t prepared to dick around. Applicants “will be expected to performance radiation performance measurements, create test plans, execute them, publish test reports, provide feedback to the other design engineers, and lead some of the manufacturing of antenna.” How many years of experience? X. Sorry, that’s 10. You’d better have made a goddamn career out of antenna engineering if you wanna help Apple solve this issue – an issue Apple continues to claim doesn’t exist. “We ARE NOT appeasing customers with free bumpers,” instructs a leaked procedure list for AppleCare representatives. But even if they’re lying, it’s good to see they’re doing something about it. In the background. Secret style. Ninja stuff.
well, duh! Of course they knew. They play the same game Microsoft does – get the product to market ASAP, and fix the fallout afterwards. The software game doesn’t change when hardware is involved….
Maybe they should just make and sell antennas and hook them to every head possible.. that way they get the job done while making us look errr… futuristic (ally funny). It wud be a sight to behold
Why this perpetual obsession with things Apple? Has Steve taken hold of our minds?
I find it practically impossible to believe they weren’t aware of it before releasing it… I think at this point they’re just trying to let it die down. Mike B might be right – What if they fired the entire Antenna Engineering team?!
there’s this really neat apple in cupertino. it’s shiny on the outside but it’s rotten on the inside. this evil queen, named steve jobs, keeps trying to give the apples to the pretty people and they keep taking bites out of it. but they don’t know that it’s rotten and full o’ worms. poor folks. the seven million dwarves who buy this crap need to wake up.