If true it could seriously backfire on Apple. So much of their success strategy revolves around the free press endlessly digging to get sneak peeks of their secrets, then product rollouts are explosions of emotionally charged irrational purchases (as nuts and perks can attest to
) on the order of millions of units sold, or promised and on back order.
It's unclear to me, but on one hand if Apple gets exposed for unequivocally having a recall that it keeps silent for as long as possible, they might just lose their "trust capital" that brings such explosive growth for almost everything they produce and sell. People may actually begin doing something that's considered a long lost art, practiced only by the wisest few who are only the subject of legend: wait to purchase new products, allowing the lemons and design failures to be bankrolled by the fools and the fats.
Then again, people are so incredibly gullible and such chronic cool followers with nary an original idea to claim as their own, that Apple is probably handling this rollout debacle perfectly. Until the lemmings that make Apple what it is are told that something else is cooler and that they will be considered smarter for following it, I'd put my money on business as usual - regardless of the iPhone 4 problems. Put an apple on it and the rest doesn't matter, period.
Apple is the Hello Kitty of tech.Let's face it, I had the idea and then Googled it, and a picture is worth a thousand words. Too bad Hello Kitty is mouthless
