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Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended

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From: John Navas
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:48
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:50:10 -0700, in
<33gq369au9jlqfqjgclooijdb6vptifga1@4ax.com>, Jeff Liebermann
<jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:13:29 -0700, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>In article <h8gp36p0q615drdj9m055iks15jq3ni9am@4ax.com>, Jeff
>>Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Please don't use bars for signal strength unless you know
>>> whether the phone uses SNR or signal strength for an indication, and
>>> know the dynamic range of the bar graph. 
>>
>>a very good point. now tell that to the masses who are basing their
>>criticism of the iphone 4 on the number of bars they see, rather than
>>actual data or whether calls drop (which some have said does not happen
>>as often).
>
>The GUM (great unwashed masses) don't seem to care.  A friend just
>ordered an iPhone online and found that Apple has a 3-4 week backlog.
>I don't know who's really doing the complaining and litigation, but
>it's probably not owners of the iPhone 4.  Besides, with a 30 day
>return policy, what's there to complain about?

What does backlog have to do with sales?  In other words, how do you
know Apple hasn't throttled sales while it investigates the problem?

-- 
John

"Assumption is the mother of all screw ups."
[Wethern๏ฟฝs Law of Suspended Judgement]
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