19
Jul
2010
Apple Calls for Conference After Stock Values Drop
According to a recent new article, Apple’s stock value has taken a dive after a magazine article wrote a scathing review about how Apple failed to fix the antenna issue that plagues the iPhone 4 and how they simply chose to ignore the hardware problem and simply release a small graphical update to the signal strength meter in order to distract the public from the real issue.
However, the antenna problem is all too real and far too prevalent to ignore. While it was easy to just shrug off the big yellow blobs that were on the new iPhone handsets (caused by the screen adhesive not drying properly) since the problem would actually fix itself after several days of using the handset, the antenna’s bad design still remains.
It is a commonly accepted fact that if a mobile phone is held in a certain way, it can be made to lose a couple or so bars of signal. This could mean having to hold the entire back of a device, holding it upside down, cupping the top and bottom with both palms and many other bizarre ways of holding a mobile phone. This however, is the very first instance that a handset would lose signal simply because the user is using the left hand –according to reports, holding up the device with the left hand to take a call is likely to place a finger on that part of the antenna that is exposed.
It was not surprising to know that Apple’s stock shares dropped after all of these were brought to public light. What was even worse was the fact that Apple refused to admit: that the only real solution to the problem is to initiate a recall of all handsets. Apple may have been proud of their extremely high sales, but a recall works against that: with over 1.7 million units out there, Apple will need to shell out almost a billion pounds to properly recall all the devices.
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