The iPhone Antenna Song - Friday fun video
Apple held a press conference today to discuss the antenna issue on the iPhone 4. To open the conference, they showed a YouTube video titled "The iPhone Antenna Song".
Even though the song takes Apple's side, it's great to see Apple have a sense of humor about this whole mess and give a fan some spotlight. This song also takes a jab at certain blogs... -- maybe that's why Steve liked it so much?
Watch the video after the break!
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LMAO! It's what I've been saying for weeks...but put to music.
The repeating lyrics at the end sum it all up perfectly.
My fav part. Return it......... You know you won't LOL! He's right! I won't.
Why does this even appear on TiPb?
With MAJOR news outlets all carrying this MAJOR event why focus on this?
Part of the Deflection campaign?
BRILLIANT! Seriously. If you don't like it...TAKE IT BACK! Get yourself a Droid or that new Dell Dohicky. Bitch, moan and complain the first, second and third time you drop a call...because, YOU WILL EVENTUALLY DROP A CALL!
I love my I Phone 4. It's a great entertainment and lifestyle device. I Haven't dropped one call so far in Denver. If your bars are dropping when you hold it, put a COVER on it! You should have one on there anyway to PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT. Great song and awesome press conference. Mountain out of a mole hill.
Huh...I agree with the lyrics, but I kept waiting for the funny part. I listened to a few more of his songs. The guy is kinda like Dylan but without depth or insight.
I love the shot they took at GIZMODO......its about time....they def had it comming.
Great video and pretty darn accurate. Note to detractors and whiners: Please buy something else and give it a rest..... I have a bumper and, now, with the 4.0.1 update my meter works better. I wondered how my signal suddenly got so good at my house, when I bought my 3G. Turns out it was a meter error. Who knew?
It's not a MAJOR news event anymore.
The only thing MAJOR was Apple's huge reputation as a newsworthy target. That's THE only reason this was big news in the first place.
When Vista flopped, it was never a MAJOR "mainstream" news event because nobody ever gives a damn what Microsoft makes (or screws up). Anyone unhappy with Vista simply went back to XP. Nothing on CNN about it. Nothing on any MAJOR news outlets about it.
But, Apple's antenna is beaten to death on CNN every half hour for the past week.
The MAINSTREAM news doesn't give a damn about HTC, RIM, Motorola, Microsoft, Palm, or any other manufacturer's antenna problem... or other hardware problems. Only when the high expectations of Apple disappoint, do things erupt to this level.
All products have flaws, mistakes, and blunders, and all manufacturers offer solutions and workarounds when they mess up.
Apple's workarounds are for users to either:
This will affect their iPhone 4 sales. But that's it. It's over. Next story.
Bought a 4 on release day. Total lemon in many ways. My iPhone classic and 3Gs worked great. They exchanged my 4 for another. It also was unusable because of the prox sensor and reception being so bad. Even with the bumper I reluctantly bought. I just returned it. Almost everyone I know has a defective 4. Even the one at the apple store wasn't working properly. The employees recognized this. Apple won't admit it. When they fix the hardware I'll be back. Get on it Apple!
Check it out:
I managed to fit a cellular transmitter in a pile of dookie and marketed it.
I designed it to be inside a pile of dookie, I want it that way, I think it looks good.
Now, I have sold a million dookie phones, and some are complaining they get brown smelly residue on their hands and demand a recall or me to redesign it....
My response is if you didn't want to chance dookie on your hands, don't buy it. If you don't like it, return it or throw it away.
Sheesh.
@Jaredkaragen:
Yup. Pretty simple... and consistent with every other manufacturer's solution (over the past hundred years) when their products have flaws.
Where have you been?
@fastlane:
Is been here, I just see the actual statistics released about complaints over volume... Very minority-ish if you ask me.
It's amazing how your idea or product must be their way, not yours.
These debates I read are strikingly similar to religion debates
@Jaredkaragen:
Not at all.
When any company botches a product, they fix it and release an improved model next time around. Which is what Apple will (should) do next summer.
What would you expect Apple to do right now? Re-design and ship out millions of new redesigned models by September?
Like any other company, all they can do is admit their mistake and suggest workarounds. If those suggestions are unacceptable, return it for a full refund. Those in doubt, don't buy in the first place.
Is it REALLY that complicated? What's so unique about Apple doing what everyone else who screws up does?
Video was fun to watch AND poignant at the same time! I have been and continue to be happy with my iPhone 4
uh, that video isn't funny at all. that guy is awkward
RF and Wireless System Engineers of the world rejoice. It is very exciting to see the CEO
of Apple Computers to suffer the indignities of having to tell its customers that "you
should hold this phone like this, yes like this, but not like that, and oh not like that"
as he twists and turns his body, wrist, and the phone in multiple configurations like a
talented contortionist. It is simply bad RF product design, admit it. Instead Apple is
recommending to its customers a newly designed phone, just that it is a really cheapened
version of the new phone, i.e., a phone with a new shell, or a new phone with additional
unheard of hand positioning requirements. I have long wondered how Apple could have gotten
away with no wireless expertise or with really bad expertise and still succeed in the
wireless world by a pretty face. Now we have the answer. It was just lucky. The problem
would have been found within 3 months of live air user tests, or the KPIs would have been
trending high that no one could have explained. Apple either had no live air facilities or
that no one was skilled enough to know what was going to hit them. This is millions of
devices today, today, already in the field. This is a real handset issue that cannot even
be side-stepped on the network side. I can only imagine that Nokia, Huawei, Motorola, are
partying like there is no tomorrow. The curious thing is what AT&T was doing. It felt like
they had been intoxicated by Apple's device successes and were just asleep at the wheel.
The Apple CEO even suffered additional indignity of shouting to the world that the KPI
will only deteriorate by 1%. Good heavens! Some boys in AT&T have their pay linked to the
Dropped Call KPI, at teh 0.1% granularity, and they will be getting a pay-cut. Not Steve
Jobs, of course.
return it? no of course, now that I am getting a free bumper.
BUT YOU WON'T!!!!
HahahahahagagagagGgGgGgGahahahahahhhhahhahahhhahahahahHhhhhahahhhHzhahahahahahahahahahHhahahhahahahahahah!
First off the video was great I wish Toyota had one just like " if the gas petals stuff don't use it" that should be his next song. I would return the par at best phone but the I would have to give up my super awesome iPod touch and all my apps and my iTunes music. For me the phone is the third thing I would use on it. I'm having mild problems with it so I can deal with it but I don't have to be happy about it and just shut up, who do you guys think you are on the blogs telling people to shut up?
In Steve Jobs' own words, couldn't I just say to this guy, "you are not in a low reception area"?
No matter how you feel about Apple or the iPhone 4, you can't deny this video is friggin' awesome!
tlo07, i deny it. that was one of the lamest things i have ever seeen in my life, right next to the chicken mcnugget rap.
@fastlane nicely put!