Apple's iPhone Mea Culpa: We're 'Totally Wrong'

NBC ^ | Jul 2, 2010 | JOSH KLEINBAUM

[for-q-clinton]

For two weeks, Apple dismissed rumors of a faulty antenna in the new iPhone 4 as nothing more than scuttlebutt. Any phone has these problems, Apple officials said. Buy a case to fix it.

Friday, Apple came clean: The antenna works just fine. But the software that displays signal strenth doesn't. The company has been using a faulty formula to determine signal strength in its phones for years.

"Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong," Apple said in a letter from two executives posted on its website Friday morning.

The letter went on to explain that there are no problems with the iPhone's antenna -- the only problem is with software that calculates how many bars should be showing. And the software hasn't worked properly since the original iPhone was released three years ago.

[Joe 6-pack]

"There is no problem with our antenna. The problem is with your phone number. It is not a good number. You need to get a new phone number, and our antenna will perform magnificently!"

[montyspython]

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