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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen. I gotta talk about this iPhone business. There\u2019s some incredible stuff going on, being said, about the iPhone 4. Now, I have seen four iPhone 4s. They are amazing devices. It was kind of interesting. When Apple was a number two and not a big threat to anybody, they were treated as a boutique little company and whatever their successes and shortcomings might have been they were just sort of laughed at by the big wizards at Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and you name it. But now Apple is second only in market cap to Microsoft. They surpassed Microsoft, I think, at least until the recent market plunge. They passed Microsoft. They own the smart phone market right now. There are competing phones, the Android phones from Google and so forth, and if you like yours, that\u2019s fine and dandy. I\u2019m not proselytizing here. <\/p>\n

I just find it amazing because in a way I kind of relate. They can\u2019t rip Apple successfully for what they do so they try to rip the credibility of the product, in this case the iPhone 4. There is a reception problem that is common to many cell phones. It\u2019s common to a Nokia phone, for example. You put your hand on the phone and you might negatively impact the antenna that receives the cell signal, and so your bars might decrease or you might lose signal strength. You might lose a call, you might drop a call. Apparently if you read all the Apple blogs, this is happening to a lot of people who have purchased the iPhone 4. It\u2019s happened so much that a law firm is setting out to establish a class-action lawsuit against Apple over this loss of signal! I\u2019ll tell you how absurd this is. When you buy the phone, you\u2019ve got two weeks to 30 days to take it back and get your money back if it doesn\u2019t work or if you don\u2019t like it. <\/p>\n

You\u2019re not stuck with it. You\u2019ve got some time. They\u2019re trying to get this class-action lawsuit going, even before that contract period to take the phone back has expired, which is immediately suspect. Now, I\u2019ve seen four of these phones. I have yet to be able to duplicate this problem. I am not denying it happens to people. Some of these websites are showing video where people pick up the iPhone… It\u2019s called ‘the death grip.\u2019 You pick it up and if you hold it in your left hand and you cover the left-hand corner, then you lose your signal. I\u2019ve tried to duplicate it. I\u2019ve tried to duplicate it in the car. I\u2019ve tried to duplicate it here at the EIB Southern Command, at home, in Minneapolis, wherever I\u2019ve been since I got the phone. I can\u2019t duplicate it. I do not lose signal. Now, admittedly I don\u2019t make a lot of phone calls because I don\u2019t like the phone. There\u2019s always somebody on the other end of it and they generally want something. <\/p>\n

So I e-mail and text and so forth. But this iPhone has a new video calling feature called Face Time. It\u2019s got two cameras, and you can actually talk to somebody while they see you and you see them. Just hold the phone in front of our face like the original picture phone was supposed to be that I famously test marketed for Bell Telephone in Pittsburgh back in 1972, and it\u2019s amazing. It works. It works over Wi-Fi. It\u2019s not even a cellular call. You don\u2019t get charged cell minutes for it. You initiate the call over a cell network but it transfers to Wi-Fi; it will only work over Wi-Fi. So look at all of these lawsuits, class-action lawsuit against this. Now, there\u2019s a story here, the San Jose Mercury News: ‘More Glitches Found in New iPhone — Apple\u2019s new iPhone 4, already criticized for problems with its antenna and screen, also suffers from glitches in its camera system that can undermine the video chat program that is one of the standout features of the new phone. <\/p>\n

‘iPhone 4 owners first started reporting troubles with the device\u2019s camera system Wednesday, the day some users who had pre-ordered the gadget received it in the mail. On the discussion boards on Apple\u2019s website and in comments on various blogs, users have complained that the phone\u2019s camera application locks up soon after launch, leaving them unable to take a picture.\u2019 I\u2019ve yet to encounter any of these problems! I\u2019m not denying they exist, but to say that they are in every phone, that there\u2019s a giant glitch worthy of a class-action lawsuit? Now, Snerdley said, ‘Why do you care about Apple? They don\u2019t like you.\u2019 It\u2019s not that. I don\u2019t care about Apple. I love the product. You know, I\u2019m sort of an evangel for this thing. I use Macs everywhere here in our office, and I am especially sensitive to efforts to destroy the credibility of somebody when they can\u2019t destroy the substance of somebody. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s been happening to me for 21 years. Nobody ever argues my ideas. They just say, ‘Oh, he\u2019s fat,\u2019 or, ‘Gee, he says extreme things,\u2019 or, ‘He\u2019s mean\u2019 or whatever, but nobody ever argues with my ideas about things — and now with this phone it\u2019s clear that Apple has got the state-of-the-art product out there, and the attacks are on. They can deal with it. They don\u2019t need me speaking out for them, but I look at all this: Class-action lawsuit over signal loss within the first 30 days of the launch! I\u2019m reading there might be a software update to fix this if it\u2019s a software problem. Whatever. I believe they\u2019ll get it fixed if it is a problem, and I\u2019m not bragging when I tell you I\u2019m not experiencing any of these problems. I have a couple of friends that say they are, but I haven\u2019t experienced it. (interruption) No. (laughing)<\/p>\n

Dawn\u2019s saying mine were especially tested by the president. No, no, no, they weren\u2019t. My phone\u2019s randomly selected from the production line just like anybody else\u2019s were. Look, if the problem happened, I would want get it fixed, but the effort to try to make Apple out to be some sort of rotten bad guy is just typical of what happens when you become the best. They just go after you. Even some of your own fan boys will go after you! Anyway, they\u2019re still lined up. AT&amp;T is… (interruption) Oh, I\u2019m sure the bloggers… (interruption) Snerdley, I don\u2019t care if the bloggers take me on over this. The primary reaction of the bloggers will be, ‘If Limbaugh has an iPhone, I\u2019m certainly getting rid of mine.\u2019 That\u2019s what they\u2019ll say. But just the whole notion of a lawsuit over signal loss when every phone has that! Now, Steve Jobs (laughing), he didn\u2019t help matters. He said, ‘Don\u2019t hold the phone that way!\u2019 <\/p>\n

Purportedly Apple issued a statement: ‘Don\u2019t hold the phone that way. You\u2019re holding the phone wrong.\u2019 Well, I\u2019m sorry, there\u2019s no way. If you hold the phone in your left hand there\u2019s no way you can\u2019t hold the phone that way and make a phone call. Then somebody else said Jobs issued a second statement saying, ‘There is no reception problem, stand by,\u2019 and people are standing by.(laughing) They think that maybe there is a fix coming for the thing. Just imagine if the United Auto Workers made the iPhone. Just imagine if Obama took over the company and his bureaucrats decided they were gonna make the iPhone. All right, here\u2019s my brother. ‘I\u2019m not looking for you to say this on the air.\u2019 Right. Then why did you send it to me, David? (laughing) ‘Mine does drop the connection when I hold it a certain way. It\u2019s happened when I\u2019ve had to hold up it to my ear with my shoulder when I need to free my hands. It happened about five times yesterday.\u2019<\/p>\n

This is the first I\u2019ve heard of that. How in the world can you hold this thing with your shoulder when you can\u2019t hold it in your hand? Okay, so my own brother writes to contradict me. (interruption) Yeah, well, you can put it in… (interruption) Snerdley says, ‘Oh, they have earpieces.\u2019 This is another thing that\u2019s irritated people. One of the fixes is, of course, go to the Apple store and buy a $29 essentially rubber band colored case that will insulate your hand from touching the steel antenna which is the border of the phone. I heard that. I would no more put a pink or pastel blue rubber band on the phone, destroy its looks than I would put Mickey Mouse ears on it. But you can get a Bluetooth earplug there and use the Bluetooth wireless connection to use the phone. My brother lives in Cape Girardeau, and I think a lot of people lose things in Cape Girardeau, folks. It\u2019s a small town. It\u2019s one of the reasons I left. (chuckling) I\u2019m just kidding. Of course I\u2019m just kidding. <\/p>\n

But I\u2019ve never lost one of these Face Time calls. I have never lost a phone call. I have never lost a call. I hold the phone constantly. I\u2019ve tried to duplicate this and I can\u2019t make it happen, cannot make it happen. ‘More Glitches Found in New iPhone.\u2019<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I was really only kidding about Cape Girardeau being a small town. Really I was. I mean, my heart\u2019s still there. I really was just only kidding. My brother lives so far outta town I think the cell tower\u2019s probably 25 miles from his house, too. You gotta factor that in.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The official program observer, Mr. Snerdley just asked me, ‘Why is the antenna on the bottom of the phone?\u2019 If you hold the phone, if you put it in the palm of your hand where the ball of your thumb and left hand hold the phone, that\u2019s where the antenna is. Actually, all the antennas are there, the GPS, the Wi-Fi, the Bluetooth, the cell signal, cellular data is all there in the lower-left hand corner apparently where the phone antenna is. The reason is there\u2019s a federal regulation that the antenna has to be as far away from the head as possible because of the, what, ongoing threat you might get brain cancer. So Apple has said they\u2019ve put the antenna where — and this happens in a lot of other cell phones, too, Nokia. In fact Nokia, Nokia tried to get a little edge up on Apple, they made a TV commercial poking fun at Apple losing signal when you hold the phone the wrong way, and somebody said, ‘Well, it happens on my Nokia and they made a video showing it happening on a Nokia.\u2019 It happens to a lot of cell phones. <\/p>\n

What fascinates me is I\u2019ve had every iPhone there is, and every problem the whiners and complainers of our society have come up with I have yet to experience. FCC rules require this antenna &ndash; (interruption) well, I don\u2019t use it as a phone, H.R. He said, ‘For somebody who hates phones you really like that one.\u2019 I don\u2019t use it as a phone. I\u2019m a gizmo guy and it\u2019s revolutionary. But even if I had the problem the last thing I would do is join a class-action lawsuit. I\u2019d either, ‘Okay, this doesn\u2019t work,\u2019 and I\u2019d go get something else or I\u2019d try to get this fixed or what have you, but to whine and moan. (crying) ‘My iPhone!\u2019 (crying) And to have everybody act like this is the worst thing that ever happened to them in their lives. What a bunch of whiners our society has become. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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