If, out of 100 phone calls I end up dropping not 3 calls but less than one more, it certainly is not going to bother me. And, as Jobs pointed out, dropped calls are happening on all smartphones.
I am not a geek, but a 60 year old career woman who does not want to “hack” or “root” my Droid! I have 20 years of wildly successful experience with Apple’s products and I have many of them ... and will buy many more. I did not grow up in a world of computers ... but while I was printing out documents with great fonts and formating, or playing on CU-SeeMe when it first came out, my PC friends were trying to figure out what kind of adapters they needed or how to install a custom font. Apple, for me, just worked ... it was, and is, fun.
Apple’s target audience is not hackers. There was an exchange in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago where some “kid” was complaining to Jobs about Apple’s walled garden and the lack of pornography on iTunes. Steve told him to buy an Android and I agree. In fact, I have noticed the Droid X appears to have great appeal to adolescent males.
It would be nice if you would understand that people [like myself] have made intelligent decisions about what product I want to buy. I love my Apple products, the OS is great, the industrial design is great [important to me as a graduate of one of the top art & design schools in the USA].
Your nagging and hectoring and complaining about Apple only makes seem rude. I honestly think that what you like about PCs, is something that would not be important to me at all.
I understand that, and I accept all that. Where I get quite frustrated is when people who are overly zealous about Apple refuse to ever acknowledge a problem and that anything NOT Apple is bug-infested crap.
I WORK for Apple, and Microsoft, and Dell, and HP, and many others. I make a living in high technology. Apple's PR stunts - like claiming other phones have the same problem (when in fact they do not - none will suffer from signal degradation to the degree the iPhone 4 does, from independent measurements) - hurts the industry as a whole.
And witness your own position; your own number for drops SHOW the iPhone 4 drops 33% more calls. If that's OK with you, great - say so! But you cannot state with any rational conclusion that the iPhone 4 has a better, "magical" antenna. The facts just don't support it, Steve Jobs' PR flak included.
Basically, if you're happy, great. Understand that Apple has problems, and that it's a big company. It is a niche player in the market that will viciously use its PR engine and rabidly-loyal-wing of its user base to denigrate and destroy any and all players in the market, even if it hurts the market as a whole. And that includes character assassination by those same zealots. Witness me being called Satan and demonically possessed. Are those the actions of a rational person?
So enjoy your Apple products. If they meet your needs, great. If you're happy, wonderful! Remember every time Apple sells a product they use some of that profit to hire ME - I like that! But to deny reality, and twist the laws of physics all around to cover a documented, predicted, and proven FUBAR leads to even more scientific ignorance by the population and ultimately hurts the consumer electronics market as a whole.
But what do I know, I'm just a GD EVIL LIAR, vile scum, demonically possessed Satan here...
You are the perfect user of apple products. I think where people get frustrated is when the not-so-informed apple user believes they have the best system money can buy so they try to convince others that it's the best and you don't need all those other things the other systems can do.
Apple definitely has it's niche market in terms of computers. The phone on the other hand they do a good job of appealing to more people because unlike a PC most people just want a phone with some apps and have it look sexy cool. Apple screwed up this time with the phone part of the phone, but I'm sure it's a one time mistake. Users would be smart to stay away until this is fixed for good and the next revision.