Lots of bugs and issues happened under Jobs, but this was the usual press BS.
The iPhone 4 went on to sell 50 millions of devices or so with that antenna and nobody in the real world had much of an issue with it.
And the bumpers aren't proof of anything except perhaps marketing; they could have just decided that the cost of giving everybody free bumpers was cheaper than any brand damage they might otherwise have sustained.
You wanted a totally original rephrase for a response to the exact same topic on a different subthread?
>Apple gave away free bumpers with the 4, so yes, it was an issue
Which few really used in the wild, so no, it wasn't.
