Apple Duct-Tapes Over Consumer Reports Review

Release Date 13 Jul, 2010 in Wired News

 
   
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Apple silent after Consumer Reports critique

San Francisco Chronicle - Jessica Mintz, Joel Schectman - 13 Jul, 2010
Jason DeCrow / AP FILE - In this file photo taken June 29, 2010, the Apple iPhone 4 is shown at the ...

Technical glitches could force Canadian delays for iPhone 4

Montreal Gazette - Sarah Schmidt - 13 Jul, 2010
The California company says the iPhone 4 launch in the United States has been the most successful in ...

CR defends its 'can't recommend' iPhone 4 rating

ZDNet (blog) - Jason D. O'Grady - 13 Jul, 2010
By Jason D. O'Grady | July 13, 2010, 2:41pm PDT Consumer Reports is at it again, this time blogging in defense of its “can't recommend” rating for the ...

Apple pressured to fix iPhone antenna flaw

CBC.ca - Peter Nowak - 13 Jul, 2010
Several marketing experts say Apple's best move is to recall the iPhone 4. (Kiichiro Sata/Associated Press) The flap over Apple's ...

Analyst: iPhone 4 recall would cost $1.5 billion

CNET - Erica Ogg - 13 Jul, 2010
While a recall could be damaging to Apple's reputation, it would also be a costly endeavor, according to some calculations made by Bernstein ...

Apple iPhone 4: company loses £6.5bn after bad review

Telegraph.co.uk - Jonathan Sibun - 13 Jul, 2010
There are bad reviews and then there are bad reviews. Apple, the technology company, has seen over £6.5bn wiped off its value after an influential US ...

iPhone 4 recall? Probably not.

Christian Science Monitor - Matthew Shaer - 13 Jul, 2010
iPhone 4 recall rumors are swirling across the Web this afternoon, as at least one expert calls an Apple recall all but 'inevitable.' Others have doubts. ...

iPhone 4 Reviewers: Who Caught The iPhone's Antenna Issues? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post (blog) - 13 Jul, 2010
Consumer Reports announced yesterday that, due to a "design defect" with the phone, it "can't recommend" Apple's new iPhone 4. ...

Biz Break: Apple's iPhone 4: a 'death grip' crisis for 'i' device maker?

San Jose Mercury News - Frank Michael Russell - 13 Jul, 2010
David Rietdorf of San Jose makes his first phone call after buying an iPhone 4 at the downtown Los Gatos Apple Store on June 24, ...

Apple reputation challenged after iPhone 4 tests

The Associated Press - 13 Jul, 2010
SEATTLE " Apple has an iPhone problem it probably can't just fix with duct tape. Consumer Reports said this week that it won't endorse the iPhone 4 as ...

Analyst: Full iPhone 4 Recall Would Cost Apple $1.5 Billion

CBS News - Charles Cooper - 13 Jul, 2010
In a research report on Apple's increasing travails over the iPhone 4 antenna issue, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co analyst Toni Sacconaghi said a full product ...

Apple Takes Hit As IPhone 4 Complaints Get Louder

Wall Street Journal - Dan Gallagher - 13 Jul, 2010
Apple Inc. (AAPL) saw its shares bruised Tuesday as negative chatter spread about reception problems plaguing the company's iPhone 4--and ...

Analyst: Don't expect antenna woes to generate iPhone 4 recall

USA Today - Jefferson Graham - 13 Jul, 2010
Public relations master Apple is winning no awards for the way it has handled what's being referred to on many blogs as "Antennagate. ...

Apple faces backlash over latest iPhone

Financial Times - Joseph Menn - 13 Jul, 2010
Apple was on Tuesday facing a growing backlash over poor iPhone 4 reception after the technology group blocked links on its ...

iPhone 4 Grip of Death: I Believe

PC World - 13 Jul, 2010
I'm finally convinced that the iPhone 4's antenna problem is real, that it's affecting my phone in certain situations. It took three weeks of real-world use ...

Apple tech-support chatter about Consumer Reports' iPhone snub vanishes

Washington Post - Rob Pegoraro - 13 Jul, 2010
The saga of the iPhone 4's possible reception flaws -- the subject of a harsh Consumer Reports blog post yesterday -- has taken another, ...

Consumer Reports pans the iPhone 4, AAPL stock tanks, recall inevitable?

ZDNet (blog) - Jason D. O'Grady - 13 Jul, 2010
By Jason D. O'Grady | July 13, 2010, 10:35am PDT Consumer Reports has said that it “can't recommend” the iPhone 4 due to the antenna flaw and analysts are ...

Writing Apple's obituary

Computerworld (blog) - 13 Jul, 2010
Apple's customer-relations crisis with iPhone 4 reception problems is a vision of the future. It's a look at how Apple will die. ...

Got an iPhone 4? You may need duct tape

CNN International - John D. Sutter - 13 Jul, 2010
The most talked-about phone in the US -- Apple's iPhone 4 -- has a design flaw that's best fixed with a sliver of duct tape, ...

Apple shares slide as iPhone 4 concerns grow

Reuters - Carolina Madrid, Gabriel Madway - 13 Jul, 2010
LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO, July 13 (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Inc (AAPL.O) slid more than 4 percent on Tuesday after ...

Apple shares slide on iPhone problems

AFP - 13 Jul, 2010
NEW YORK " Apple shares were down sharply on Tuesday after Consumer Reports panned the new iPhone because of reception problems and rumors swirled about a ...

The iPhone 4 antenna situation is a non-issue, and it's going to blow over ...

Forbes (blog) - 13 Jul, 2010
Simply, the iPhone 4 works better than pretty much any other phone you can buy, and even Consumer Reports says so, calling it the best smartphone on the ...

Apple: Citi Says iPhone Recall Unlikely; Supports Free Bumpers

Barron's (blog) - Eric Savitz - 13 Jul, 2010
Apple (AAPL) isn't likely to launch a product recall of the iPhone 4 in response to the phone's antenna issues, Citigroup analyst Richard ...

Analysts: iPhone Problem Won't Hurt Apple, but Expect Fix

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Jennifer Valentino-DeVries - 13 Jul, 2010
As Apple faces increasingly vocal complaints about the antenna on the iPhone 4, some Wall Street analysts say they expect ...

Apple Censoring Discussions of Consumer Reports iPhone Review

FOXNews - 13 Jul, 2010
Apple has been censoring discussions of a Consumer Reports review that pans the Apple iPhone 4 due to antenna reception issues, but the deleted threads are ...

Apple shares fall amid Consumer Reports finding

The Associated Press - 13 Jul, 2010
NEW YORK " Shares of Apple Inc. took a hit Tuesday amid investor concerns over antenna reception problems with the latest iPhone and a related decision by ...

Rumors Swirling Over Possible Recall of Apple iPhone 4

SmarTrend News - 13 Jul, 2010
Shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) are down more than 3%, in an otherwise positive stock market, a day after Consumer Reports said that it would not recommend ...

iPhone 4 anti-Apple backlash broadens (and HTC 1)

Computerworld (blog) - Richi Jennings - 13 Jul, 2010
The iPhone 4 antenna issue simply will not go away. And Apple is being its own worst enemy. ...

Apple Duct-Tapes Over Consumer Reports Review

Wired News - Eliot Van Buskirk - 13 Jul, 2010
After ranking the iPhone 4 above all other cellphones, Consumer Reports decided the antenna problem it had originally failed to ...

Imagining the Unimaginable: An iPhone 4 Recall

CBS News - Charles Cooper - 13 Jul, 2010
Perhaps it's just coincidence but shares of Apple got pummeled Tuesday morning, just a day after Consumer Reports came out with a post explaining why it ...

 

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