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Bitey said:

I say to myself all the time, “It seems they would have tested this more before releasing it”, with any Apple product.

And yet Apple has the best customer satisfaction ratings of all the manufacturers…

 

Idk how they do it but Apple could release the buggiest OS on the most horribly designed PC of all time and fanboys would still buy it in droves. That’s why whenever someone says they prefer Apples I automatically assume they know absolutely nothing about computers or the internet. 99% of the time you’ll be making a correct assumption, even when the person works in IT.

 

Nickname said:

actually the case does help because it keeps you from being able to bridge that gap in the antenna which causes a lot of the problems.

Can you think of the last time you saw a phone that not only had the antenna on the outside of the phone but also left that antenna completely uninsulated? It doesn’t take much to prevent human skin from acting as a conductor, maybe half a cent or so.

 

As someone who’s actually designed and built a high-frequency antenna I can tell you that this sort of thing is something any engineer should refuse to let our of their lab. I’m curious to see if it’s actually safe to use for hours on end with it held to your face.