The ‘hate’ is a two way street. The elitist attitude by some here is pretty obvious. Personally, I like Apple products and always have. But the cultish replies here regarding those who pick something other than an Apple is ridiculous. If Apple is truly superior, it will play out in the market. But to act like the company and products are flawless is absurd. Being a brand advocate means learning from mistakes and improving- NOT blindly drinking koolaid. Why do you think Apple apologized for their stupid response to the iP4 problem?
Yes. Even Apple makes mistakes. But some here will never accept that.
It was a tempest in a teapot because Apple and people who were testing the iPhone 4 could not duplicate the issue to any thing like the degree that the FUD spreaders were screaming about. The complaint level about ALL issues on the iPhone4 was below 2%... compared to almost 6% for all other cellular phones, rintense. That is phenomenal!
The "Don't hold it that way" comment came from a single response early on from Steve Jobs to an email from one of the early FUD spreaders trying to gin up publicity about the "problem."
The fact is that when tested by independent labs, it was found that EVEN HOLDING IT THAT WAY, the iPhone4 did not attenuate enough to drop calls more than other smartphones in it its class when held covering their antennas... and still received calls better than the others.
When the iPhone4 was released with unmodified antennas into the rest of the world, away from AT&T's crummy US network, the dropped call issues went away... and the users in the rest of the world had no problems. They could not duplicate any of the problems. The problems were purely an artifact of an overloaded network.