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...
Apple absolutely DID demonstrate that other phones have the same problem and it was demonstrated during the presser. Since you will never see it, I won’t bother telling you things that will make you even more irate that you would not know unless you saw it ... all the way to a half an hour after it ended.
The other companies were not happy but it is hard to argue with the evidence. Most of it is on YouTube I believe. The “drops less than one call per one hundred” is not MY number as you so state. It was what Apple stated. I have had NO dropped calls.
Don’t expect people to be upset with Apple if they have personally had no dropped calls, at least so far in its inception. People are not returning their phones in droves! i have never denied a problem, just that I do not know anyone who has had a issue with the antenna.
Apple does not have a problem. The only problem that might exist is that the brand and its concept is driven by one man who will not live forever. Apple will never be as big as Microsoft and I wouldn’t want it to be. The biggest is never the best [as demonstrated by Microsoft] and Apple is the best and will be sold to people who want the best. Not the cheapest or the one most other people use.
As for your other “gripes”, I would characterize your behavior on these threads as excessive especially as you have not one iota of first hand experience with the iPhone 4. That is why I have related my experience and those of the 7 people who I knew that bought the iPhone 4 the first week. You come off as someone who simply hates Steve Jobs, which is a fashionable position these days. Congratulations for being trendy.
If you have a problem with another poster you should either live with it or solve it. But to declare in almost every post your displeasure with what one person called you is silly. You’re like a broken record.