I'm writing this post because if one more person asks me about the iPhone 4 antenna issue, or tells me that they will not buy an iPhone 4 because of the antenna issue, I'm going to go postal on them, I'm going to rip them a new one, go ballistic, get nasty, and go all aggro. (Hopefully I've covered sufficient cultural slang terms for I'm going to yell at them, vigorously, loudly and for a long time).
Fact: 0.55% of iPhone users have had the antenna issue. As of July 16, 3 million were sold, which makes only 16,500 phones had bad antennas that were reported to Apple.
Fact: 1.7% were returned as per July 16, 51,000 returns, which means that 34,500 were returned for other reasons.
Fact: All phones exhibit some attenuation when you wrap your sweaty palm (with sincere apologies to @chockenberry) around them, especially around the bit where the antenna is.
One of those returns was mine. I had the Yellow Screen issue. Apple swapped it out with no questions asked.
So, where is the brouhaha about the yellow screen issue? No-one has asked me about the yellow screen on my iPhone, no-one has told me they won't buy an iPhone 4 because the screen looks like it has pee on it. Steve Jobs did not have to have a special news conference to explain that Foxconn workers were not peeing on new iPhone 4's. And yet more people faced the yellow screen issue than faced the antenna issue. And the press remained very quiet.
Go figure!
My new phone has no pee on its screen and I cannot reproduce the alleged antenna issue on it, or the one I handed back.
The real problem with the iPhone 4? AT&T's horrible network of course.
