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  • I almost forgot... "Still, if you project both numbers over a year, HTC still comes out ahead." Take what numbers!? The 1.7 million iPhones reported sold in June? Or the 20 million Androids HTC are hoping to sell in 2010? Ok, lets: The iPhone 4 was released on June 24th. The 1.7 million figure was one released after sales were calculated up until June 26th. Now, as you're not a numbers geek, I'll let you know that's 1.7 million in two days... in the United States alone. That figure will slow down over time of course, but at that reported rate it would trump HTC's predictions for 2010 in less than a month. Time will tell of course, and this antenna issue will surely damage sales, but I don't see HTC outselling Apple this year.
    devilbond had this to say on Jul 14, 2010 Posts: 3
    Androids vs. iPhones the Battle Goes On
  • "Last week, Apple admitted that its iPhones had been overstating network signal strength since 2007, and that the original wraparound antenna design responsible for this has been wreaking havoc with reception in its latest iPhone 4." That is clearly stating that Apple admitted the antenna design as being responsible, which they did not. If you meant it as two different statements, try putting them in separate sentences, rather than joining them with an 'and'. ...and they ARE denying it's a problem. Steve Jobs himself has - http://url.ie/6rz4 And the PR & support guidelines, from Apple, state how to handle complaints about the antenna - http://url.ie/6rz5 You may think it's perfectly fine to spread misinformation, making erroneous conclusions about one issue from a story about another issue, but it isn't. Even if it's an honest mistake. It's the bane of the internet, where websites like this report conjecture and/or assumption as fact, propagating untruths throughout the web. Obviously, it riles me up. Excellent grammar-checking, by the way. Thank you. You picked me up on a misplaced apostrophe. Well done. If however, you're talking about my use of 's' instead of 'z', that's English. From England. You're one argument, that I need a crash course in manners, is however, justified. Thank you.
    devilbond had this to say on Jul 14, 2010 Posts: 3
    Androids vs. iPhones the Battle Goes On
  • The 'author' of this article is an imbecile. 1. Apple never apologised for it's wrap-around antenna design - it vehemently denies there is anything wrong with it. They apologised for mis-representing the signal strength in software, and have promised a patch for it. Not only is that offensive to the consumers plagued with this problem, it is irrelevant to the real issue which they are refusing to address - physical signal attenuation, which has nothing to do with software. 2. The 'author' states a sales ratio of 1.7 million iPhones VS 20 million Androids being bad for Apple and great for Google. I'm assuming the 'author' is not an economics major. You've taken the 1.7 million sales from June 2010 only, and compared it to the projected 20 million sales of Android from 2011, by which time Apple would have sold millions upon millions more units. This article does not deserve to exist anywhere except within the confused, simplistic mind of it's 'author'.
    devilbond had this to say on Jul 13, 2010 Posts: 3
    Androids vs. iPhones the Battle Goes On