They still haven't owned up to the problem though. And when asked about it directly by gdgt, they changed the subject. gdgt: "You showed people almost covering the entire phone in their hand, but on the iPhone 4 it can happen with just a touch. Can you explain that difference? Bob (Apple): "When you touch the phone, you put yourself between the signal and your phone, so when you touch that spot you can attenuate the signal, and if you grip ti with your whole hand, you can attenuate it even more." That was a total non-answer. In fact, he answered it in reverse. In my office here we have 2 droids, an LG Voyager and some little trac-phone. We all tried holding them in a variety of ways, including how they showed phones behind held. None of our phones dropped bars. Yet the iPhone drops bars with the mere touch of a single finger tip. Not to mention the severe spin he put on his data at the start of the thing. It doesn't matter how many people are calling in with the problem, or what percentage change there is in dropped calls. The problem is the REASON for the dropped calls. Barely a touch to a spot that is guaranteed to be touched when on a call, is enough to drop signal strength to a point where calls are dropped. So how often it happens isn't the point. The point is there is a serious hardware/design flaw. One that definitely should have been noticed in testing. He even said on multiple occasions throughout the conference that he doesn't think there is a problem at all and that this whole thing is just blown way out of proportion. I'm sorry, but when Consumer Reports does their testing and can't recommend your product, that's not blown out of proportion.

I say we all flood them with FOIA requests for the ACTA treaty. If enough people are sending in these requests, they'll have to cave in. Either that or it will tie their office up to the point where congress realizes that the people want to know and will haul Ambassador Kirk in and force the treaty into the open.

If they do this, I would LOVE to see it required that any and all discoveries/benefits/breakthroughs be public domain if they were funded with public (money the Government got through taxes) funds. Can you imagine the explosion of new tech that would happen if someone discovers something and then turns it over to the 10s of millions of brilliant garage engineers and basement techies out there? That would be so amazing.

The scientist rarely sees much of anything, it's the company/executives he works for that get wildly wealthy.

Oh so true! I hate it when people blame violence on video games or movies or tv. Yeah, the show violence. But if parents would teach their kids the difference between reality and games/movies, it would solve a lot of issues. Heck, if parents were actually around to raise their kids it would go a long way. Disgusts me that parents aren't allowed to discipline their kids in ANY way whatsoever without Maury and Oprah getting involved, but we can blame their mistakes on video games. Please. Pathetic. The world really has gone to hell in a handbasket.