[The views expressed are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect those of Mobileshop.com. Also, for the sake of sanity, you should probably read this as being a bit tongue-in-cheek.]
Here we go, I was wondering how long it would be. After the news broke about the iPhone 4 (in America, at least, our UK version seems to not have as bad a problem) supposedly having problems with its antenna, I had a sort of countdown timer start in my head, with the words “I wonder how long it’ll be before someone sues Apple over it” running round and round my thoughts.
According to Valleywag, I can now stop the mental timer I had running, because people are indeed ruminating over doing just such a thing! So, yes, we could be about to see the head-on collision of two things that always manage to get my goat: Apple, and lawyers. Yes, we could be about to see the ultimate showdown of evil vs. evil.
Honestly, it’s like watching a wasp land on a nettle (to quote an analogy from, I believe, a Terry Pratchett novel): someone’s going to get stung and I don’t care which! The only thing is, of course, that it once again highlights the epic sense of entitlement people in the colonies have, something normally seen only in the ranks of gamers (honestly, having to pay for DLC that someone worked hard to create? Shocking suggestion).
Y’see, I can’t help but think Britain has its head screwed on right in situations like this: if the phone you buy doesn’t work, you take it back, say “This phone is a bag of doings”, and either get a new one, or get your money back. And the lawyers can go back to chasing ambulances.
Not in the USA, though, no sir! Over there, you find a lawyer, and proceed to try and sue the backside of whoever has slighted you in even the tiniest way. And, god forbid, if a phone has a fault, or even a design flaw, you try to claim emotional stress, loss of earnings, and whatever else the lawyer can convince you to sue for. After all, how dare anyone release a phone that personally insults and mocks you and your very existence?
However, yet again, I would like to remind readers over here that there seems to be no such problems with the UK iPhone 4, because although it does seem to lose a bit of signal when held in the left hand, our network infrastructure is better, and therefore, it doesn’t insta-kill your call.
That doesn’t mean I like the iPhone 4. Or Apple. Quite the opposite, in fact, as my view on the situation would be a paraphrasing of Steve Jobs’s own words, to say, “Just try to avoid buying an inferior phone. Get a Samsung Galaxy S, instead.”
What it does mean is that Britain is better than America…
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