Keith Sketchley
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Users make your product work, but....
Why Motivation by Pizza Doesn't Work
"Kurmudgeon Keith's Kritical Komment":
And it became a problem the minute one of your employees said to a user, "You're holding it wrong."
The comment of AntennaSys, Inc. in recommending that Apple provide a no-charge bumper case to mitigate the sensitivity of the iPhone4
IOW, that Apple person expected the user to not only know how to hold the phone for best performance but to reliably use the technique. That's a non-starter for such a device.
The whole media fuss may be a "dump on Apple" excercise, but that approach is guaranteed to turn many people off. (Apple has offered a free case to each owner, which does help substantially. The cases are popular anyway, but not having used an iPhone I don't understand why I'd want to add bulk to the device.)
(AntennaSys' adhoc testing, which I do not know enough to comment on - though experts have in an IEEE article forum - showed that the iPhone 4 ws particularly sensitive to being held by the user's hand wrapped around the bottom of the phone. Upload was most affected, pushing performance down toward the level of the iPhone 3G. (It isn't that simple, they measured data rate whereas most users will notice dropouts in connectivity on a voice call. I gather the effect may be particular to where one or more fingers are placed relative to the internal antenna - bottom left side, so using your right hand (as left-handed people probably will) is worse. AntennaSys cryptically refer to the "gap area" of the antenna.)
Note: the iPhone 4 has higher maximum date rate because it is a "4G" cellular technology rather than the "3G" of the iPhone 3G.
The US military's Powerpoint addiction
(Keith says it is a tool to hide behind, a bureaucratic method, but there is a reason for presentations that is common to many other methods. Ask him what it is.)
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