Apple iPhone 4 Was Released Along With Many Operational Flaws

Shortly it is going to be the beginning of July and everyone knows what that means! A brand new iPhone phone is getting ready to become available to consumers.

Unbelievably enough the iPhone 4 has it’s fair share of drama around the release, some of the issues as early as April of 2010. In early April, Gizmodo editor Jason Chen acquired a then top secret iPhone 4 prototype model from a nameless source for a sum of five thousand dollars. Gizmodo.com held in depth coverage of the iPhone 4 and even was mentioned on large reports networks like FoxNews and MSNBC. His place was later raided by the California Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team and had his computers seized. The reason for the raid on his house was something to do with economic espionage; but how was he guilty of that if all that you’re doing is buying something? You are not stealing it so whats the problem.

Then when the iPhone was ready for pre order online, the system crashed after over six hundred thousand preorders had been processed. Not only that, ATTs systems were victims of security breaches and people were accessing other peoples accounts accidentally, and being able to view and change other patrons info. There were reports of AT&T shops being closed over the quantity of folks attempting to preorder and the stress of ATTs systems being far too overloaded. ATT in the end had to close off the pre-ordering system due to mass bafflement and problems. Seems like they needed some computer geeks for their computer network.

Staff member Sam Axon of Mashable.com informed the readers that he was mugged while he was waiting for an iPhone in Chicago. His tweet on Twitter was as follows “I was just mugged while waiting in line for the iPhone 4. Not kidding.” What’s happened to society? And ultimately, there are reports abound of the iPhone 4 having issues with its hardware. Gizmodo has reported that the phone drops calls if a finger is placed on a certain little spot on the lower left side of the body. It just so happens you can make the phonephone drop calls by touching to small antennas at the same time with your fingertip. The solution is as straightforward as a tiny piece of scotch tape, or put the telephone in a case. Such a simple repair for a $500 device, but it shouldn’t exist in the first place?

There is also verifiable evidence the screen of the iPhone 4 has issues with yellow pixels, bands and splotches on the screen from normal use. Most likely Apple will not mend the problem for free and will claim the user damaged the LCD themselves. Unlike digital camera repair, most people can’t repair an iPhone themselves. Again, should this be a problem at release or should it have been fixed before the extremely pricey item was sold to the public? Sony found out the hard way years ago with a huge recall for digital camera repair service to fix the CCD sensor on millions of cameras consumers had purchased.

Apple has a record of releasing cutting edge devices, but with the knowledge that the iPhone 4 was going to be as popular as it is, they should have put more thought and time into testing and development. It’s much simpler to deal with design issues before you put item into mass production than it is to deal with them after the client has bought the item. No company wants to have to provide millions of buyers with problems after they purchase a product. It’s possible Apple will learn an instructive lesson from this release.