Jobs: "Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it."
Steve Jobs appears to be in a serious state of denial over the iPhone 4 antenna issue.
Boy Genius Report was given a thread of emails exchanged between Jobs and an iPhone 4 user that shows how deep Steve's denial runs.
The iPhone 4 owner, given a pseudonym of Tom by BGR, posted an email to YouTube showing the iPhone 4 antenna problem. Tom says Apple reached out to him and told him that the antenna problems were just "rumor hysteria," and asked him not to post anymore videos.
Rumor hysteria!? HE POSTED HIS OWN VIDEO! How is that rumor hysteria?
Tom was rightfully irritated and decided to speak with Steve Jobs himself. He emailed Jobs to say the phone was busted. Jobs wrote back, "No, you are getting all worked up over a few days of rumors. Calm down."
Again, Jobs is telling the person witnessing the phenomenon on his own phone that it's just "rumors." Tom wrote back and said, "I am really insulted… 'Calm down'…. 'rumors'… What arrogance. This is will be marked as the begging of the end of Apple. Seriously, DO THE RIGHT THING."
Jobs response: "You are most likely in an area with very low signal strength."
Tom wrote back to say Jobs was nuts. AT&T blows and there's bad signals everywhere.
Jobs response: "You may be working from bad data. Not your fault. Stay tuned. We are working on it." He followed that up with, "Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it."
Easy for him to say. Jobs' net worth is valued at $5.5 billion, thanks in no small part to what is, after all, "just a phone."
This is really spiraling out of control for Apple. The company can't tell Tom it's a rumor, when he sees it with his own two eyes. And if Steve's response to users is, "It is just a phone. Not worth it," then he's a fool.
Maybe he's right. Maybe it is JUST a phone. Since it's JUST a phone, why not buy another phone, maybe one from Google, which is offering a mobile operating system that's nearly as good as Apple
