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what's up i'm brian song and welcome to the alpha x where we're talking all things apple both good and bad and if you're the type of person that believes apple can do no wrong you might want to cover your ears for a while now to follow the last week's show apple will be releasing a software fix tomorrow accurately display how many signal bars we see on all iphones both past and present after being stunned to discover they've actually been miscalculating it all this time for three years but that still doesn't fix antenna issues that are hardware problems for iphone 4 users experiencing it and if you or grandma have promising those tiny little bars apples also increasing the size of bars 1 2 and 3 with the upcoming software update thank you that is amazing I still have a hard enough time reading 36 size font what does that say now if this software fix is accurate those five full bars I get at work which don't allow me to make or receive calls or send text messages should all disappear so you know at least I'll know my reception really does suck but that's not all the latest developing iphone 4 issue has to do with its proximity sensor it hasn't been getting as much attention but when you hold up the phone to your face the screen is supposed to deactivate now that's not happening for everyone sometimes it won't turn off people's cheeks will register as screen touches or its screen won't turn back on after a call now these problems aren't affecting everyone but then there's also an issue with phones taking yellow tinted pictures that look like they belong to R Kelly when it tries adjusting the lower light conditions this may have been the best product launch ever for Apple but it's also starting to become its biggest black eye and I'm just waiting out for the next batch of bones from the factories now it's really been a rough few weeks for iphone 4 owners ATT recently announced that a software defect caused iphone 4 users on AT&T in areas like New York Washington DC Boston Las Vegas Seattle and many more to drop upload speeds by one-tenth of their normal speed and you can bet people were thrilled about this but a fix is on its way with no time frame set and they won't be thrilled about that and over the July 4th holiday Apple confirmed approximately 400 itunes accounts were hacked after Vietnamese book apps by tuan nguyen took over approximately 40 of the 50 top spots for paid books on itunes now according to Fox News iTunes servers were not hacked and Apple has removed all the apps from that developer it appears the accounts were compromised through phishing scams or easy to guess passwords but it's a little disturbing to me that we would immediately assume iTunes was hacked instead of potentially realizing that Vietnamese book apps on itunes are just as hot as just a fever I'm just saying it's possible now in quick bites all this bad press isn't hurting Apple according to Piper Jaffray and NPD's data Mac sales are up 30 percent year-over-year for the quarter through May and the ipad doesn't seem to be hurting the mac sales at all and if you're still looking hard for an iPad digit times reports Apple is ramping up iPad production to over two million units for the month of July now the mobileme idisk app has been updated to support multitasking in ios4 and it's now compatible on the iPad and if you're a mobileme user you can opt in to try out the beta for the calendar app @ me.com Plus let's not ignore that even though we've been going on and on about the iphone 4s antenna issue there are solutions like this one alright that's going to do it for this week's show send your emails to the apple byte at cnet com i'm brian Tong thanks for watching and we'll see you guys next week for another bite of the Apple