{"id":6734,"date":"2010-07-26T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=6734"},"modified":"2010-07-25T09:39:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T16:39:12","slug":"newsletter-issue-556-welcome-to-the-ministry-of-silly-apple-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2010\/07\/newsletter-issue-556-welcome-to-the-ministry-of-silly-apple-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #556: Welcome to the Ministry of Silly Apple Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can believe reports from the mainstream media, Apple was poised to announce a software fix for the iPhone 4 antenna problem last week. I\u2019m not referring to a more accurate display of signal strength \u2014 meaning fewer bars in many instances \u2014 but an actual method to compensate for the effects of using the famous death grip on that device.<\/p>\n<p>Now it doesn\u2019t matter much that you can create similar symptoms on other phones, including the highly touted alleged iPhone killer, the Motorola Droid X. Facts don\u2019t matter when the public\u2019s perceptions and misguided commentaries count for everything. If you believe it\u2019s true \u2014 or close to the truth \u2014 that\u2019s all that counts on 24\/7 cable news channels and the blogosphere.<\/p>\n<p>But that software fix report didn\u2019t come from the usual online suspects. Instead, it appeared in The New York Times, the fabled newspaper of record. Hence you had to take it seriously, even though Steve Jobs denied it outright during that special media event at Apple headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Also denied was the story from Bloomberg News claiming that Apple\u2019s chief antenna designer protested the decision to use an external antenna system. That, too, seemed credible ahead of Steve\u2019s response, but let\u2019s take the stories to the next level.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2010\/07\/newsletter-issue-556\/#level\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can believe reports from the mainstream media, Apple was poised to announce a software fix for the iPhone 4 antenna problem last week. I\u2019m not referring to a more accurate display of signal strength \u2014 meaning fewer bars in many instances \u2014 but an actual method to compensate for the effects of using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5733,12359,26,6439,6746,248],"class_list":["post-6734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apple-headquarters","tag-bloomberg","tag-iphone","tag-mainstream-media","tag-motorola","tag-steve-jobs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Newsletter Issue #556: Welcome to the Ministry of Silly Apple Rumors - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2010\/07\/newsletter-issue-556-welcome-to-the-ministry-of-silly-apple-rumors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Newsletter Issue #556: Welcome to the Ministry of Silly Apple Rumors - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you can believe reports from the mainstream media, Apple was poised to announce a software fix for the iPhone 4 antenna problem last week. 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