What really happened with Wi-Fi on the iPhone 4

HOLD ON, the problem begins with Apple not broadcasting the keynote live. They used to do this. Perhaps then every pundit in the place would not feel they had to supply those live reports. (Just my 2 cents)

BTW, I thought SJ kept his cool under great pressure. Try to put yourself in his sneakers for a minute.. YIKES!

gonna watch it now :)

Besides the same dam thing happened at the google event in the same building.

@j dogg What does AT&T have to do with there wifi issues? Lol AT&T gets blamed even when they have nothing to do with anything. It obvious that the problem was with everyone running there stupid mifi's. Because when most of the people shut them down he did another demo it worked great.

Back in the early days of WECA (yea, before it was called Wi-Fi) a colleague Dr. David Leeper talked about the "spacial capacity of wireless networks." Having hundreds of APs in the same room caused this. Google the term or a quick definition - "If too many systems are operating in the same area at the same time they will degrade or even nullify each other’s capacity. This leads to a new measurement beyond simply data rate or range. It is necessary to look at the number of systems that can safely be used in the same area, at the same time. Spatial capacity can be determined by calculating total data rate supplied by all the systems in a given area and then dividing by the area to arrive at bits per second per square meter."

TUAW continues to write poorly written articles with bad grammer and points that have been made over and over by others.

The same problem happened at the google tv announcement conference. It's the mifis not the drivers. At least Steve knew what it was and yelled at people to turn them off. Google had no clue.

I feel like denouncing my Canadian citizenship every time SJ announces a new product and Canada is left out from the initial release date!!! Like we the closest neighbors than Britain,France,Germany etc.. How come we ain't getting no iPhone this month?

The MiFi (or any other WiFi routers) does sound like a valid culprit. There are only 13 WiFi channels and I'm sure that there were dozens of transmitters in that room.

Fairly pointless article, if you've actually seen the keynote (and if you hadn't surely this article would make no sense whatsoever), as others have noted.


And no, @no name, iPad WiFi is not a 'disaster', I'm using it right now several rooms away from my router you hyperbolic asshole.