APPLE PRESS conference at california was an event which included a 15 minute Steve Jobs presentation and then a question-answer session with the top executives of Apple. The hardware professionals as well as senior Vice President of Apple joined Jobs as the press threw questions.
The Apple press conference started with Steve Jobs giving a presentation on how iPhone 4 antennagate is just a media hype. He demoed some popular phones like Samsung and HTC having same dropping bars problem if held at certain points.
Jobs later told that like any company they loved their customers very much and they would do anything to keep them happy.
He further added that the engineers have been working day and night for the last 22 days to know the problem and the solution.
Steve Jobs took a jig at media by saying that they have behaved in the worst possible way in creating thios hype of Apple iPhone 4 problems which are in fact non-issues.
Apple is going to give the $30 bumpers for iphone 4 free to all its customers as a temporary measure and would continue that till september this year. After September they will reasses the need as they plan to shift the problem point on iPhone 4 to some other place.
This free bumper availability is applicable to all the nations. Apple will be launching iPhone 4 in 17 more countries this 30th July.
Other issues are solvable via software update, a first one iOS 4.0.1 was released on Thursday this week.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that he was vecationing in Hawaii but this issue was too important to be on a vacation. He further added that media have been harsh on companies which start getting bigger as happened to Google.
Apple iPhone 4 has a return rate of a mere 1.7% as against iPhone 3GS which stood at 6% as customers bought and returned the device within a month as per the contract.
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