Oh boy this is crazy. A saying goes something like this: "cometh the hour, cometh the man", but the way this drama surrounding the iPhone 4 is going, there's no harm in saying : "cometh the hour, cometh the rumor".
After mixed bag reactions to whether the antenna issue strangling the iPhone 4 were software-related or hardware-related, NYTimes have given their own piece - that it is a software issue, and they have the help of a close Apple 'insider'.
One person with direct knowledge of the phone’s design said Thursday that the iPhone 4 exposed a longstanding weakness in the basic communications software inside Apple’s phones and that the reception problems were not caused by an isolated hardware flaw. Instead, the problems emerged in the complex interaction between specialized communications software and the antenna, said the person, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter. The person said the problems were longstanding but had been exposed by the design of the iPhone 4. All cellphones can be affected by the way a hand grips the phone, but well-designed communications software compensates for a variety of external factors and prevents calls from dropping...and Steve Jobs didn't learn of the problem until last month.
So a software update it is then that will fix this problem. But then if it was a matter of software only, then why didn't Apple include the fix in its iOS 4.1 release?
Anyway, enough questions asked already. Still waiting for answers. Lets hope this issue is solved and the customers get the better of it when Steve Jobs takes the stage later in the day to shed some light into all this non-sense and give us all a permanent relief from this problem.
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