July 21st

Define: placebo effect

Engadget: “…in our testing, we had far, far fewer dropped calls than we experienced on our 3GS. Let’s just say that again: yes, the iPhone 4 does seem to alleviate the dropped call issue.”

Apple Insider: “the overwhelming majority of reviews are reporting that iPhone 4 has significantly better reception and fewer dropped calls than previous iPhones.”

Venture Beat: “I honestly do see less dropped calls with the iPhone 4.”

Boing Boing: “Dropped or garbly calls did still occur sometimes with this new iPhone. But a little less often”

Apple: “iPhone 4 drops less than one additional call per 100 than the 3GS.”

People keep talking about the end of traditional journalism, but apparently a worthy replacement has yet to be found.