Now I'll be called a whiner...or a troll...but you know..that's just typical fanboy mentality.
First, pulling out the "fanboy" reference isn't really a great way to make friends and influence people.
Second, no, you won't necessarily be called a whiner or a troll. I reserve those titles for the people who have a mindset that goes something like this:
"OMG when I even look at mah iPhonez it loses all its signals and it's such crap and Apple knew about it and they don't care and their fix isn't gonna work but I'm gonna sit here and complain over and over about it while I hold on to what I feel is an unusable phone rather than use the option of returning it even though I know Apple's not gonna fix it."
That type of person is not productive, and honestly, usually just becomes a troll.
Apple isn't all powerful and they are imperfect. I've been screwed by this company more than enough times...which I'm not going to bring up now...and perhaps that's made me a little more jaded. Still, I continue to buy their products and support the brand...but this one's been a real blow as far as I'm concerned.
Why would you continue to buy from a company that screwed you over "more than enough times"? That makes no sense to me.
As it was stated above...some of us sold off the old phone and bought the new one...right away...having faith in Apple's new product. I sold my 3GS in 15 minutes on ebay...that's 15 MINUTES! Now to tell us to "just return it" if you're having problems...that's just bullstoke.
Yes and I think telling people who feel their phone is unusable at this point and who don't think Apple's software fix is going to work should return the phone. If you feel that this is an issue that affects every iPhone 4 (even though it clearly doesn't, but let's play along), then yes return the phone.
AT&T has other phones you can use in the meantime (including a brand new 3GS that they still sell) until you feel Apple has addressed the iPhone 4 issues down the road. But holding onto what you claim is an unusable product just doesn't make any sense.
As for selling off your iPhone 3GS within 15 minutes of getting your iPhone 4? That's just bad planning/bad luck, but that excuse doesn't change the reality of the situation.
But I'm not this time...and those of us who are not are very frustrated and absolutely have a right to complain.
Sure, you do, I don't deny that. But when your complaining spills into multiple threads, and it's not productive, and it looks like you're just trying to complain for the sake of complaining, and you continue to behave in ways that totally defy logic, we also have a right to ask you to stop because those are all hallmarks of being a troll.
My friend above who is claiming the "black helicopter conspiracy theory" that Apple is purposely making Bumpers because they knew that the antenna was bad but they were going to ship the product anyway despite all the scientific and independent proof otherwise, yeah, that's trolling.
Go ahead and call us trolls...whatever dude. We feel let down...we feel like we got duped...we basically feel like we've defended this product forever..we've given Apple our hard earned money on countless occasions...and, most importantly, in my case, I've invested quite a bit of money on Apps for my phone...so "just return it" is not a valid or acceptable solution.
So you would rather keep a phone that you feel doesn't work just to prove a point? What is that point? How long are you going to hold on to a phone that you feel doesn't work before you think it's too long? Why not just go return it and get a brand new iPhone 3GS from AT&T?
To all the fanboys...Apple is imperfect...Apple does make mistakes..and just because for once they admitted a mistake doesn't make them worthy of all this praise.
My friend, you need to be very careful throwing that word around and making assumptions. If you actually had any history on this board or spent time reading any threads beyond the ones you feel you want to come to complain to, you would quickly realize that most of us you are claiming are "fanboys" who see Apple as never doing any wrong is completely unfounded.
In this particular issue, yes I do think a lot of the mega complainers on this topic are either trolling, over reacting, or are behaving completely illogically without any justification for their actions.
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