This little quirk should go up and down the chain if it really did get out unnoticed. RF guys that designed this antenna config might have job security issues, but how about QA? Didn't they use the device at all? How about the PM? Or was everyone instructed to hold their iPhone a certain way as Apple mantra?

Brings several interesting thought scenarios, such as "We brought it to QA, they found the problem, but it was too late to modify the design so they had to go with what they had, but Apple won't add a free or discounted bumper becuase accessories are a lucrative business too". Doubt we'll ever know outside of seeing positions open and people leave (by their own will or otherwise)

Just curious.

Here's the problem I'm seeing with everyone's "it's not 50/50" result - comparing females vs. males alive today is not the same as females vs. males births. Also, I'll cite my reference:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-is-life-expectancy-lo

The assumption is that it's current day, world ratio - obviously defining time or region will adjust the numbers, but the question is vague and we haven't been counting all births since humanity began.

Tripped across this link a while ago detailing with a surprising amount of granularity market share of browsers. Netmarketshare says that 21.35% of browsing is taking place on IE6 or one of its derivative versions.

That's a whole lot of market share - Firefox aggregately across all versions beats it, but not by much.

Dvelopers can choose not to market to those users or ignore them and eventually give them a poor experience, sure. But if the below is accurate, then that would be about the same argument as ignoring Firefox users, as far as market share goes.

Though maybe the data I'm seeing here is wrong - this is the 'net, of course, and there are many ways of attempting to measure net usage.

http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2

Cable / satellite / telcos that distribute video channels don't pay for the shopping channels, they get paid by said channels for carriage. So at worst, the customers aren't charged for them.

If you don't want to see said channels or other annoying channels, most modern set top boxes have a feature called a favorites list. Allows you to see a program guide with only the channels you want to see.