So I’ve just been talking to my dad, explaining that my phone contract ends next month, and wondering what phone I should get next. My choice was basically between Android and iPhone.

My dad asked if the iPhone was the one that if you held it incorrectly, it lost signal strength. I confirmed that he was correct, that was the reported story, and a bumper should fix that problem.

Which got me to thinking, how many people worldwide still consider this a problem? Now, my dad is more than capable on a computer, and is fairly knowledgeable about the tech world in general – but as far as he is concerned, antennagate is still an unresolved issue.

Since the recent availability of iPhone on Verizon in the States, it seems that the popularity of the iPhone hasn’t waned – it seems more popular than ever. Like so many things in tech, problems appear and then disappear just as quickly. Remember the Conficker virus and the Sasser virus? No, probably not!

What about the Y2K bug? You remember the name, but none of the chaos it caused – probably because it didn’t cause much chaos at all. Systems were changed, bugs were fixed, and everything went (vaguely) smoothly, so no-one really thinks of Y2K as having been a problem. But I assure you things were done to make it not-a-problem. I know, I was one of those doing the fixing…

I do still wonder how many perceived problems put people off of trying or buying a particular item of technology.