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Originally Posted by Brave Ulysses
My point was that Apple NEEDED to respond to the bad PR.
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And yet Apple didn't change a thing about the iPhone 4. No recall, no silent update. And it still outsold every iPhone before it, combined. The whole thing was a bunch of hot air; the only reason Apple needed to respond to it was precisely because the media blew it out of proportion... the users, the actual people buying the phone, didn't care, and sales figures reflect that.
I don't think that the media event was necessary, Apple just wanted to shut everyone up, and if it has never happened I highly,
highly doubt it would have affected sales. But barring a time machine I can't prove that; what I can prove is that the iPhone 4 is one of the most successful mobile phones in the history of mobile phones, antenna "issue" be damned.
I don't know how short
your memory is, but after Apple "addressed" the antenna issue, the reaction was mostly the same: the antenna is flawed and Apple is full of shit. Haters gonna hate.