With Droid X Death Grip Footage Apple Revealed Its Desperation
Apple is now openly showing its frustration with the much talked about iPhone 4 Antennagate. First, in a desperate attempt to restore iPhone 4's reputation, Apple chose to target other smartphone makers, claiming and demonstrating somehow that they too suffer from death grip phenomenon. This has annoyed RIM, Samsung, Nokia and HTC as expected. Now Apple has intensified the Droid X vs iPhone 4 war by targeting Motorola Droid X.
The Cupertino-based firm has this time attacked Droid X by posting a new smartphone antenna performance page on its website displaying how Droid X is also facing signal drop issue. As you all know, Apple's iPhone 4 has been facing the antenna issues referred to as "death grip" by netizens.
The issue came to light immediately after the new iPhone 4 went on sale on June 24 and Apple is facing a lot of flak over its handling of the issue. The way Apple is pointing fingers at other phones to defend iPhone 4, looks a rather desperate attempt and frankly sad. What Apple is going to do next since the Droid X death grip video too has not lessened people's enthusiasm for Verizon's latest Android phone.
It may be recalled that in its earlier page, Apple had posted the performances of phones from Research in Motion, HTC, and Samsung, as well as the iPhone 3GS. The company had also added the Nokia N97 mini to the page, earlier this week.
The decision to post video targeting the Droid X is seen as a smart business move (although it is getting murky now) by Apple because the Motorola's device, which went on sale from July 15, is seen as a potential competitor for iPhone 4. In the video, it has been show that in Droid X also the signals is dropping from three signal bars to zero when gripped in a manner similar to the "death grip" of the Apple's smartphone. So iPhone 4 vs Droid X seems far from over.
Meanwhile, the companies against whom Apple has posted the videos have shot back with defensive statements. BlackBerry maker RIM issued a statement from its two chief executives Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie admitting that RIM's phones had similar problems but they slammed Apple for what they called an "attempt to draw RIM into Apple's self-made debacle."
Nokia also issued a corporate statement but the Finnish firm did not name Apple. "As you would expect from a company focused on people, we prioritize antenna performance over physical design if they are ever in conflict," noted Nokia.
