This is Garrett Murray's Maniacal Rage

While in LA this week, I dropped at least 50% of my phone calls. While at home, I drop at least 25% of my calls. My proximity sensor turns my screen on and off throughout calls, which activates the hidden features I like to call Putting People on Mute Accidentally™ and Touching the End Button In the Middle of Client Calls™. I’m left handed—hold the phone, lose coverage, data stops working. Incoming calls via Bluetooth? Garbled.

Hey! Apple has a solution! It’s called iOS 4.0.1. The update is out today! Check out what it fixes: It changes the 5-bar graphic used to display signal strength visually to have bigger bars on the low end, and it also shows that when you thought you were getting 5 bars before, you were actually getting 1! Awesome! PROBLEMS SOLVED!

I’ve never been so completely disappointed in Apple. I genuinely believe Apple knew from the beginning their antenna design was flawed and would cause issues. I believe that’s why they used bullshit math to show an incorrectly positive number of bars, and I believe that’s why they designed the Bumper. They figured enough people would buy the Bumpers on launch day and with the falsely-reported 5-bar signals displayed to users, people wouldn’t notice the iPhone has a terrible time holding onto a signal when in your hand.

This press event tomorrow had better be fucking magical.