OT: More iPhone madness - the "fix"

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Mark Luljak propounded (on Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 04:36:35PM -0400):
| http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/02/technology/iphone_update/?hpt=P1&iref=NS1
| 
| Watching this train wreck is entertaining, to say the least.  I laughed out
| loud when I read the part about changing the first three bars to make them
| taller so they'd be "easier to see".  I read that as, "If it looks bigger,
| they'll think it's not so unacceptable."

On NPR's "Car Talk", Click and Clack suggest taking care of an annoying
warning light on a car's dashboard with black electrical tape. :-)

Apple is now suggesting that the shorting of the two antennas by a human
touch has no particular consequence beyond being badly represented in the
five-bar display. :-(

Is Apple under attack because the signal-strength indicator has been
flawed through several generations of the iPhone, or is there actually
some serious annoying degradation in the quality of a connection when
one's fingers touch the "sweet" spot?

-- 
JP