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PC Magazine on antennagate

Looks like PC Mag agrees with me about the whole antennagate thing.

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2 Responses to “PC Magazine on antennagate”

  1. David Says:
    July 19th, 2010

    I too think that the antenna problems are overblown. There are a dozen or so reasons not to buy an iPhone. The antenna issue is not chief among them.

  2. scott Says:
    July 19th, 2010

    It also occurred to me recently that one of the reasons for the “overblownness” of the issue is that people give a shit about Apple’s products. I read a review of the HTC Evo in the New York times in which it was made clear that many of the features of the phone were either poorly thought out or just didn’t work at all. Was there outrage? I didn’t hear any. Apple made a nearly perfect phone–but the one flaw in it became so talked about that you’d think it was an outright failure. And it’s because nobody gives a fuck about the Evo, but people care a lot about iPhone.

    Of course you might be of the opinion that openness or lack thereof is a good reason not to buy an iPhone. And for you, possibly that’s true. However, I wonder why the rules are different for game consoles and other consumer electronic devices. Why must a smartphone follow the desktop computer model?

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