Most people aren't early adopters anyway. Once the problem is fixed for real, those who would have waited until later to buy will once again feel validated.

As far as I remember seeing quoted before, Apple only has something like a 15% share of the smartphone market. So in such a survey you would only expect 15% to say that they wanted to buy one anyway. So 57% saying that they wouldn't buy one (if that indeed is what the survey point meant) is not really surprising.

Whilst not being an Apple fan in the slightest and own none of their products, I feel the lambasting of them and the vitriol in people's comments is getting a bit boring.

But then I realised that they have probably brought it on themselves as a company by being so smug.

There are comments all over the Internet saying that their iPhone 4 does NOT have the problem, so maybe it depends on differences in manufacture between superficially identical units, on local signal frequency and whether the Wi-Fi radio is switched on or even in working order at all, personal perspiration, or a couple of Apple PR people paid full time to go around the world online pretending to be thousands of satisfied customers.

Previous iPhones were not necessarily particularly bad for reception in themselves, most of the complaint seems to have been that the exclusive provider, AT&T, had and has an allegedly unsatisfactory service, whichever phone you were using.

I read a far future science fiction story once where every time the hero got a new personal computer, he would download and install "phone tools" to turn his fully capable computer into a telephone as well. I thought there was something subtly very wrong in the world he lived in that these weren't provided as standard. And I'm thinking that today, too.

Apple CAN keep up with the demand, they just choose not to.
Decreasing supply allows them to charge more for their products.
Silly fanboys, this is microeconomics 101.

I've used the iphone4 at length. just a big mess of hoops to jump through to get to simple things I want to do. I despise apple, and i-tunes and all this apple garbage. reminds me of microsoft - annoying it's customers in order to squeeze a little more money out of them. same old apple - really slick looking, fashionable, comes in assorted colors, costs a lot (for those who love to show off how much money they have) but is actually INFERIOR due to it's lack of straightforwardness.

Boring.

You are all so boring, but sheep have never been noted for their wit!

The phone is flawed but many of you are still buying it and proud of this. Heh heh.

If I wanted a product and found it had some flaws, I might still want it but I would be cautious. Especially when the guy in charge is not fixing the aerial on the phone.

I could get an iphone 4 and I was considering it, as well as I am also considering a google phone and windows 7 phone too. But there are flaws in them all so why bother?

Reasons not to get any of them are:
1 - Iphone 4 not well designed or tested and I want a reliable product.
2 - I like the google android by HTC, the desire, but I want it with a football game like X2 on iphone.
3 - Windows 7 is not out until November 2010.

At the moment I am waiting another month to see how bad the Apple aerial problem is, and if someone releases a good football game for android.

Fanbois, stop being sheep, please. It's just another electronic factory in China churing out electronic kit.

Foxxcon also make motherboards, etc etc. So your fancy phone is simply made by some Chinese people, barely trained, and working in terrible conditions if the tv news is true ;-)

I have one on order, but I have no intention of actually using it as a phone - it will be a development handset, so the antenna issue doesn't really worry me.

Actually, if anything, I'm slightly worried that if less people are buying the new model, mine might come in the post a bit quicker - I'm off for the next 4 weeks on my honeymoon, and I was counting on the ordering delay - since I don't want the phone arriving by courier when I'm not in the country.

I'm probably the only customer crossing my fingers for a later delivery, but... here goes. :)

This antenna problem is making me to laugh. As a producer of best phone in the world, will APPLE try to make more phones to keep up with the demand or will they stop prouction and try to fix the problem??????????? If it was me as long as there is demand for it then why should I think about fixing problem, I am sure this problem will only be solved in June 2011.

So why do you choose the one phone system that tells you what to? The only one which tells you what you are not allowed to see? You are not an individual you moron you are marketing victim. You have no free will you have surrendered it to Steve Jobs who WANTS you to buy a broken phone. For F***s sake think different!

Look here you idiot @fanboys! I am not going to let you dictate what I buy or don't buy! You arrogant wanna be! You ranting and ravin only reaffirms to me what you really know! I make decisions with my bucks not you or any other dictator MR. CHAVEZ!!! I have decided to get my iPhone 4 on fridaqy and you trying to convince me with your mindless arrogant comments is not going to change my decision nor waste my time. Good Bye!

I see Apple is getting more desperate to silence the feel bad factor caused by their boss flogging punters a broken phone. Usual bollocks.... attack the reporter... pretend the reporter did the survey.
Try to understand this... the fact that you say you are going to buy a broken iPhone 4 on Friday, despite warnings... despite the fact Jobs has said he will not fix it... reveals that you are just completely stupid. The fact that you rush to reveal to the world that you are going to buy a broken phone on Friday means you have too much money and are really stupid.
Did I mention that you are just showing how completely and utterly stupid you are?
Unless you really are mentally ill in which case I apologize....

Prepare yourself for the next Apple success story. Be sure you have all your meds by your side.

I hate Macs, iPads, iPhones and everything Apple...but I bought an iPhone 4 32Gb.
The screen is lovely!
I can honestly say that as a die-hard Sony Ericsson user, the iPhone does have signal issues when held in my left hand (Which is often when I'm typing text messages), often leading to failed sending of messages.
I find that as I'm a Billy-No-Mates, the fact that calls are crap on it doesn't affect me as no one calls me anyway :( but then it's brilliant as an overpriced MP3 player for my car :-)
I tell you what I *do* love about it though, other than the screen:
Angry Birds and RedLaser...The number of times I've had shopkeepers frown at me for going round their entire store scanning barcodes................*blushes*

Buy it first and try it, is all I have to say. You be the judge instead of people telling you what you should buy. If you don't like it, return it within 30 days for a full refund, just like Steve Jobs said. Don't let the BIASED media make the decision for you. How many times have you heard Movie critics tell you that a movie was trash but you watched it anyway and walked away loving it and never understood why it was trashed by the critics. HTC, Samsung, Nokia, Motorola etc. are feeling the heat...It's going to be a HOT summer for Droid!!

4 Million iphones sold already in a month and 16 more countries including Canada this Friday...Apple can't keep up!

Hehe.. the news media is trying too hard.. & failing.

a good product is a good product, people aren't phased by the FUD.

the fact is (at the moment) iPhone 4 the rest of the smartphones in the market

it's entertaining watching the triumph of 1 company vs. the media

this is only gonna get better

*grabs popcorn*

"One on four people" Try editing your own article before you post it up.

Also, the Iphone 4 antenna issue is so silly. I can replicate it. If my hand goes on this 1/4 inch part the signal goes away. Otherwise its fine. A case fixes it no problem, and so does a tiny piece of electrical tape.

Finally, Iphone 4 sales are through the roof. I waited in the reservation line for over an hour a couple days ago to get my Iphone 4. A month after launch and they are still doing reservation only, and their is still a line.

Of course the media continues to attack the Iphone thinking that they are actually on to something. Dumb.

You must be new at this journalism stuff. The name of your website tells it all, Inquirer. A name we can trust, ha! Good journalism used to be part of a trusted media, but lately it seems anyone can write anything and the public will believe it. I like your statistics, no backing or references on where they came from. Just made up. Nice. You keep up the good work ( sarcastically )!

what a load of tosh ! , with record sales figure and the most sucsessful launch who is buying them them ? i have one and love it

Apple took the least reliable phone (as far s dropped calls and poor voice quality) and made it worse. Even Apple lemmings have their limit to how much Steve's distortion field will affect them. Apple made a major design flaw, tried to cover it up, now is trying to deflect it. Perhaps the public is not as dumb as Steve Jobs thinks.

The 57% answer was from those who said they were neither more nor less likely to buy any iPhone - it was a not applicable (N/A) question as they had no plans to buy one in any case. The article implies that there's a correlation between the iPhone 4 antenna publicity and this number, when in pact, the 57% users were blackberry or driod folks already.

Poor reporting - One wonders whether this should be called journalism.

How does it matter? They can't make enough iPhone 4 phones to service the demand so I don't see how it matters if some people won't buy them. They couldn't sell anymore than they already are. And the demand is only growing. If they sell 18 million instead of 21 million this year because some people are fooled by the media, how is that a failure?

I bought one all the way from the UK and using it in India.

http://www.fonearena.com/blog/19458/apple-iphone-4-works-over-bsnl-3g-in-india.html

Works like a charm

If people are truly less interested in buying the iPhone 4 it's great news for me with the upcoming launch on Friday in Canada I'll surely get a chance to buy one

So that would be 57% of the people you asked right? Because more than 3.5 million of the phones have been sold already, so somebody out there is buying them. Also it is 45% of the current 3GS customers that you asked said they would look elsewhere. I am a 3GS owner and you didn't ask me. This is a very misleading article.

I am getting tired of this. I got an iPhone 4 a week ago. I have tried very hard to reproduce this antenna problem and I can't do it. I can't even get a single bar to drop when I bridge the antennas.

Gotta love the media for not checking facts and for blowing this out of the water.

I am a 3GS user and was seriously considering an upgraae to 4G. Now I will take a "wait and see" attitude. Maybe waiting till next June (iphone 5?) is the wisest course.