Its now the end of June, shortly it is going to be the beginning of July and we all know what that means! A brand new iPhone phone is getting ready to be released to customers on, the 24th of June.
Already the iPhone 4 has it’s fair share of drama surrounding it, some of it started as early as Apr of 2010. In early Apr, Gizmodo editor Jason Chen bought a then top secret iPhone 4 prototype model from a unnamed person for a sum of five thousand dollars. Gizmodo.com held extensive coverage of the iPhone 4 and even was mentioned on TV stories networks like FoxNews and MSNBC. His house was later raided by the California Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team and had his computers snatched. The reason for the raid on his home was something to do with economic espionage; but how could you be guilty of that if all you are doing is buying something? You are not swiping it so whats the problem.
Then when the iPhone was available for pre order online, the system crashed but not before over six hundred thousand preorders had been processed. Not only that, ATTs computers were victims of security breaches and folk were accessing other peoples accounts accidentally, and having the ability to view and edit other patrons info. There were reports of AT&T shops being shut down because of amount of folk attempting to preorder and the stress of ATTs computers being far too overloaded. Finally, after hours of confusion and screw ups, ATT and closed down the pre-order system. Seems like they needed some mobile computer repair Burnsville to keep their system up and running.
Mashable journalist Sam Axon reported being mugged while standing in a queue for the iPhone 4 earlier today in Chicago. He posted on Twitter the following “I was just mugged while waiting in line for the iPhone 4. Not kidding.” What’s happened to society? Lastly, many reports are available about iPhone 4 hardware problems. Gizmodo has let slip that the phone drops calls if a finger is placed on a certain small spot on the lower left side of the body. It just so happens you can make the phonephone drop calls by touching to tiny antennas at the same time with your fingertip. The solution is as straightforward as a small piece of scotch tape, or put the phone in a case. Its a straightforward fix but for $500 should this really be an issue?
There is also real proof that the screen of the iPhone 4 has issues with yellow pixels, bands and splotches on the screen from normal use. Most likely Apple will not fix the problem for free and will claim that the user damaged the LCD themselves. Again, should this be a problem at release or should it have been taken care of before the absurdly pricey device was sold to the public? Sony found out the hard way years ago with a huge recall for digital camera repair to fix the CCD sensor on millions of cameras consumers had purchased.
Apple has a history of producing awesome devices, but with the certainty that the iPhone 4 was going to be as hot as it is, they should have put more thought and time into testing and development. It’s much simpler to handle design issues before you put item into mass production than it is to cope with them after the consumer has acquired the item. You don’t want to have a product recall for millions of buyers with home computer repair Prior Lake after the fact. Maybe Apple will learn an instructive lesson from this release.
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