Nokia, RIM, HTC, Samsung Open Fire on Apple

[JMcEntegart]

Oh, so that's what happens when you try to pass the buck on to your competitors.

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[Teen Geek]

Take that Apple!

ps. You deserved it

 

[hellknight_mnd]

Why is it so hard to accept that Apple screwed the antenna.. and dragging other companies into this affair is highly disrespectful.. If any other company had this issue and they dragged Apple into this, I'm sure there would've been a lawsuit... Apple would've sued them...

 

[festerovic]

The apple suckfest continues...skipping their phones even if they were free.

 

[mr_unconcerned]

While I agree that Apple needlessly opened a big ol' can of worms by dragging the community into their party, phone reception is affected by being held, or stuck against your head. For most, the signal loss is negligible, but manufacturers want to keep the subject under the rug anyway.

Apple isn't having much luck with new releases of phones. First the debacle over the price drop on the 1'st iPhone, now this.

 

[house70]

RIM...couldn't say it any better

+1000

 

[TeKEffect]

Steve is making all kinds of friends

 

[ern88]

APPLE- I loved your products since the first Ipod's came out. I love my first generation ipod Touch. Still works great. But not owning up to your mistakes fully, and dragging the other phone manufactuers into your bad design problems is wrong. Re-design the damn antenna and recall the phones. I want one but I'll wait till you get the bugs ironned out first.

 

[zorky9]

Was actually wanting to hear Palm's. They had great Treos with internal antennas.
What's that? HP bought them?

 

[wing2010]

It doesn't matter whether others have the same problme or not. If you have a reception problem because of design flaw, admit and fix it. After that, move on. Don't give the excuse that others have it and you are off the hook. It just makes the matter getting worst!!!

 

[Guest]

I admit I like Apple's products and innovationgs. However, at times APPLE is just SO full of itself. It looks at itself as infallible, and if it does have "issues", it tries to take others down with them rather than owning up and apologizing to their customers. It's really a wonder sometimes why they're able to get away with these things. Hope the class action against them would somewhat teach them a lesson. But somehow, I doubt it.

 

[mrecio]

I am glad apple is getting all this bad PR, their products are overpriced. The only Apple product I have ever owned is the iPhone 3GS and I will not purchase another apple product.

They sacrifice way to much for the "Apple Cool Factor" This thing is a phone first and should have as near perfect calls before anything else is added. They even used an inaccurate formula for displaying bars are you kidding? anyone who thinks that was a mistake and not intentional doesn't know Corporate america.

I don't like big corporations but Apple(Steve Jobs) is by far the worst, but until people decide that they rather have something that works instead of the next best thing or the coolest looking thing then apple will be able to do this over and over again.

 

[MrComputerTecho]

Nice Job RIM. I have to say I enjoyed RIm response, As Well as Nokias. Apple, Needs to fix this, but knowing Apple... Good Luck.

 

[orionantares]

Well you know they screwed up when a major company that wasn't even involved in the smear steps in to smack Apple. Seriously, attacking others for your screw-up, disgusting.

 

[guzz46]

I still don't know why they don't sue apple for making such claims

 

[pharge]

[citation][nom]guzz46[/nom]I still don't know why they don't sue apple for making such claims[/citation]

Because it is true that every phone has its weak spot.

However, while it is the problem everybody knows in the field, it does not make Apple look right by putting them on the table. Actually it just make Apple look even worse.

The fact is, the new iPhone4 has antenna problem and currently they do not have a fix for it (without a major change on the design)but covering it up with a bumper.

So only few things Apple can do at this moment:
1) "recall": Apple is doing its own way of recall.... by giving a full refund!!
2) Temp fix: well... we all know... the free bumper/case
3) Well... the people who bought the iPhone4 can take whatever it is if they decide to keep it..

I can understand these maybe the only few things Apple can do right at this moment... BUT... dragging other companies down with them.. putting other companies under the bus... is NOT going to make Apple look better... actually just making it worse.
If Jobs is smart he should not say this on the stage.. he should hired some journalists and bloggers to say so... not himself... Like the stupid PR BP CEO have done, this is definitely another textbook example of what should not happen for a good PR.

 

[pharge]

By the way, one interesting observation:

None the response from these companies actually defend those phones appeared on Apple's press conference. No matter how will they were talking in their response, none of them actually said Apple's test result was actually a lie.

Does that means those signal problems were actually true on those phones?

 

[bigght]

Just another reason I personally would never buy an IPhone or Apple product. Over-priced, over-hyped. Steve, nice try at pointing fingers. You have a flawed product.

 

[bebangs]

Instead of apple admitting the issue last press conference, it points fingers at other phones.

Well said, RIM.

 

[dco]

I've never had an opinion one way or another about apple because ive never owned any of their products. But after seeing how they've handled this relatively small problem, from straight out denying it to now trying to drag other companys down. It's really shed light on how they operate as a business and how they view their customers, i personally will never give them any of my money because of this.