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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
At this point, it doesn't matter whether the problem is real or perceived. Steve Jobs needs to take control of the situation and say they're going to offer a hardware fix for any affected phones. From what the public can tell, Apple is still playing the 'it'll go away' game. From a company so cleanly managed, this 'no nothing' approach is baffling.
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The perception issue is killing them. The Apple backlash is in full force right now, especially amongst the techie crowd. This all comes at a horrible time for them as far as the US market is concerned. They are already letting Android get a very strong foothold with Verizon users. Even though the iPhone may still be marginally the best phone out there, most people see the Droids+verizon as better than Iphone+ATT.
If Apple stays off of Verizon for another year, they will be done as the consumer smart phone leader, and will probably never get it back. People get vested in these devices. Not many people will jump ship to the Apple once they've got use to the OS/started buying android apps and drmed movies/formatted their libraries for android etc.
Also, Apple's product life cycle is pretty slow compared to what is coming out from all these android phone manufacturers. There will be Android phones in the next few months that will be absolutely better than the iphone way before the next iPhone release.
All this would have been avoided if they went to Verizon earlier, and Android would have never got off the ground.