Funny story is making its way around the web today about Apple’s colossal FAIL over the iPhone 4’s antenna. I’m sure we have all seen the videos of people holding their iPhones in the “Death Grip” and watching their full 5 bars plummet down to a No Service. Well Apple has heard the complaints and has figured the solution to it: they were giving you too many bars of reception to begin with!!!
That’s right, when your iPhone says 5 bars, it actually doesn’t have that much reception! Apple’s calculations for reception display have been off this whole time. It showed too many bars when you really don’t have that much, so your spotty AT&T service seems to have just gotten worse. In an upcoming free software update they will fix the illusion of more bars and show you what you are really getting. Why is this being done? So the big drop of bars when holding the phone in the Death Grip doesn’t appear that dramatic. So now your reaction of: “5 bars to nothing holding it like this? What???” Will now, according to Apple’s dreams, will be like: “3 bars to nothing holding it like this? Oh that’s understandable…. maybe I should buy some iTunes gift cards”
Oh and in an attempt to trick you into thinking you have good reception they are making the 1, 2, and 3 bars bigger, “so they are easier to see”. Sure.