Even as Apple suffers the continuing pains of its iPhone 4 “Antennagate” brouhaha, it appears at least one competing device is now facing problems of its own: Motorola and Verizon on Tuesday acknowledged faulty screens on some Droid X handsets and offered affected consumers a free replacement device. “We are aware of a very small number of Droid X units that have experienced a flickering or banding display,” said Motorola spokesperson Juli Burda. “The exposure of devices is limited to less than one-tenth of a percent.”
"Nipped in the bud", usually connotes "fixed or corrected"
A statement was made that you can return your device that is under warranty for another device.
So evidently Toyota can say "we will fix your car" and all their problems are "Nipped in the bud"?
Great logic.
If Motorola knows that the problem is limited to
<1/10 of 1% (one in a thousand), they must of known
that the problem existed before the product was put on the market.
Jobs had a lousy press conference just like his lousy demo of iPhone4. Apple is in a hurry to achieve record profits; who can blame them for glossing over this one? Much easier to recognize the revenue and discount the cases than sell less phones with proper antenna. Holding off on a launch of new product version may slow sales. Who can blame Apple? We all do, because we hold our heroes to greater accountability! Droid won't let us down. They never have. Go buy a Droid everyone and you'll see what I mean.
Although Motorola and Verizon might have reacted quickly to earn praises, I don't think their situation was the same with Apple's antenna-gate.
iPhone 4 was more of a design issue, but still delivered a product as intended with high quality. Droid's problem, from what I can understand reading this report, is a complete manufacturing defect. This is not even something that requires special reaction or the media giving praises comparing with Apple's antenna-gate. Apple could say "it's a design; don't like it, don't buy it", but in this Droid case, that cannot be said!
BTW, if the iPhone had any defect like this, you just walk straight to the Genius Bar and get a free replacement along with a nice chat at the counter. It's always been like this; doesn't require media attention.
(What's wrong with the media nowadays? Too many reports are so narrow visioned. Stand back a few more steps, correctly assess the issue and deliver a report with objective and impartial view. Don't quote the financial analysts like you agree with them. Have they ever been right recently?)
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Droid X Screen Problems Nipped in Bud
Posted by: Katherine Noyes July 21, 2010 11:48 AMEven as Apple suffers the continuing pains of its iPhone 4 “Antennagate” brouhaha, it appears at least one competing device is now facing problems of its own: Motorola and Verizon on Tuesday acknowledged faulty screens on some Droid X handsets and offered affected consumers a free replacement device. “We are aware of a very small number of Droid X units that have experienced a flickering or banding display,” said Motorola spokesperson Juli Burda. “The exposure of devices is limited to less than one-tenth of a percent.”
A statement was made that you can return your device that is under warranty for another device.
So evidently Toyota can say "we will fix your car" and all their problems are "Nipped in the bud"?
Great logic.
If Motorola knows that the problem is limited to
<1/10 of 1% (one in a thousand), they must of known
that the problem existed before the product was put on the market.
iPhone 4 was more of a design issue, but still delivered a product as intended with high quality. Droid's problem, from what I can understand reading this report, is a complete manufacturing defect. This is not even something that requires special reaction or the media giving praises comparing with Apple's antenna-gate. Apple could say "it's a design; don't like it, don't buy it", but in this Droid case, that cannot be said!
BTW, if the iPhone had any defect like this, you just walk straight to the Genius Bar and get a free replacement along with a nice chat at the counter. It's always been like this; doesn't require media attention.
(What's wrong with the media nowadays? Too many reports are so narrow visioned. Stand back a few more steps, correctly assess the issue and deliver a report with objective and impartial view. Don't quote the financial analysts like you agree with them. Have they ever been right recently?)