Full iPhone 4 'Antennagate' Q&A Video Surfaces After 16 Years

Full iPhone 4 'Antennagate' Q&A Video Surfaces After 16 Years

A 47-minute video of the Q&A session from Apple's 2010 iPhone 4 "antennagate" press conference has surfaced on YouTube, showing Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Bob Mansfield answering reporters' questions. The recording was highlighted by Daring Fireball's John Gruber, who attended the event. Apple called the July 16, 2010 press conference amid complaints that holding the iPhone 4 in a particular way could reduce its cellular signal. Jobs used his pre…

Apple iPhone 'Antennagate' Q&A video emerges online 16 years later

Remember that time Apple blamed iPhone signal issues on how people were holding the phone? Believe it or not, that was 16 years ago (oh my god, I’m getting old!) with the iPhone 4. ‘Antennagate’ was quite the story at the time, and it’s making a comeback after a recording of Apple’s 47-minute Q&A session […]

Watch Steve Jobs defuse Apple’s Antennagate scandal in lost video footage

Macworld Back in July 2010, Apple was in crisis mode. Steve Jobs was sick. Gizmodo had just spoiled the launch of one the greatest iPhones ever made. And now headlines all over the web were bashing the iPhone 4 as having a serious antenna flaw. It was so bad that Steve Jobs cut his vacation short and gathered members of the press for an impromptu conference on July 16 to explain the issue and field questions from the press. We’v…

★ The iPhone 4 ‘Antennagate’ Press Conference Q&A — Finally

The most extraordinary Apple event in the company's modern history was the emergency press conference on Friday, 16 July 2010 to address "antennagate" - the out-of-control media narrative that the iPhone 4 had a defective antenna design. The event was only scheduled one day in advance - I got invited around noon ET on July 15 and was on my way to the airport about an hour later. It remains one of the most interesting press events I've ever atten…