Steve Jobs held a press conference today to talk about the problems with the iPhone 4. To cut to the chase, Apple said there is indeed a problem for a small number of users, but in the interest of keeping everyone happy, they’re offering free cases which prevent the issue from occurring. That’s great, but what’s interesting is everything they said before they announced that, which you can see in the press conference. Jobs spent most of the conference talking about how good the iPhone is, that they’ve sold 3 million of them in less than a month, many publications rate it the best smartphone, and all cell phones have issues with their antennas, particularly when people hold the phone in a certain way..

If you don’t see where this going, you really need glasses.

Steve Jobs and Apple is telling you flat out that the iPhone 4 is great and this isn’t a big issue and they’re not going to apologize for it. They actually showed videos of other phones suffering similar issues. This is Steve Jobs grabbing you by the collar and telling you and the media to chill the hell out about this issue. We may have an issue with our phone, but so does everyone else, so again, chill out about the iPhone 4, there’s nothing new here with this problem.

That’s pride and confidence hanging out over in the arrogant section of town for the afternoon.

Their defense here is that phones aren’t perfect. That’s an excuse one hears from a child. Yet Apple is proudly brandishing as a mature company and, get this, it’s working for them. Watch the press conference and yes, Jobs is a bit petulant as he mitigates blame via pointing all the phones with smartphones in general. Yet he makes a good case, backed up by numbers, so no he and Apple aren’t going to apologize for anything, because they fell they don’t have anything to apologize for. Is that arrogance and confidence? Whatever you think the answer is, you have to admit that the answer is uniquely Apple, for good or bad. I think it’s good, what say you?

Grace dreams..

Today I took the bus how from work. I miss being to slow down anad watch the world go by, as someone else worries about how to get from there to there.

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Watching the world go by, from Barnard Street, Savannah, GA.

Shots from the morning drive to work.

At night, in Savannah…