‘Inevitable’, Eh?

12 points by kvs 15 years ago | 5 comments

wwortiz 15 years ago |

Weakening a little is completely different as to what reporting was coming out about the iphone 4 (full bars to 0) when it first came out.

It should be understandable why this happens with phones without an external antenna, and this kind of attitude is what puts me off of daringfireball.

RiderOfGiraffes 15 years ago |

Please edit the title to make it informative.

jws 15 years ago |

Summary: HTC refers to body induced handset signal loss as inevitable with respect to their own device after previously calling it shoddy design in the iPhone 4.

ZeroGravitas 15 years ago | |

I think they were taking issue with making a handle out of an aerial (or vice versa), no-one was denying basic physics and the only people I see confusing them appear to be intentionally doing so to muddy the water.

Off-topic but while at Daring Fireball I notice he hasn't updated his story about Android customer loyalty to reflect the real figures:

http://blog.yafla.com/Lazy_Surveys_Enable_A_Lazy_Press/

That's becoming something of a pattern for him, as he jumps on every negative Android story that comes up even if they later turn out to be misunderstandings.

wwortiz 15 years ago | |

I think your Summary: should be replaced with Conclusion Drawn: