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Steve Jobs is just finishing off his press conference as I write this, explaining to the assembled journalists exactly what happened with Apple’s iPhone 4 “Antennagate” debacle.

Actually what he actually said was “… there is no Antennagate… there is a challenge for the entire smartphone industry…”

Adopting the classic “look, everyone else has the same problems too” tactic, Steve tried to paint the iPhone 4′s dropped call problems as something endemic to the whole mobile phone industry. Which it isn’t.

To be fair, he also offered every iPhone 4 owner a free case, which solves the problem. This is a good thing, clearly, and should go some way towards repairing the PR damage Apple inflicted on itself.

But I’m not sure that’s the end of the story – and it’s all Steve’s fault.

In the scariest example of life imitating art, Apple has become Big Brother, the looming figure it overthrew in its award-winning advert in 1984.

Not content with pretending the iPhone antenna issue doesn’t exist (“it’s the network’s fault, honest!”), Apple has now started purging all posts relating to the dodgy reception issues from its own forum.

Yup, that’s right – it’s own customers are complaining vociferously about a product that Consumer Reports confirms has “…a problem with its reception” and Apple not only ignores those complaints, it actually deletes them!

The iPhone 4 has been unveiled by Steve Jobs at this year’s WWDC to the heroes welcome you’d expect from the resident fan boys. Jobs has called it the “… platform’s biggest advance since the original model’s intro back in 2007″, which is a big bold claim to make.

It’s also patently false!

Read on for full details of the new iPhone 4.

After all the hype of the Pad’s release last week, attention has now shifted to the Apple iPhone 4, details of which will apparently be announced in 20 minutes time at 18:00 GMT.

So I thought I’d live blog the event as it happens. And by live blog, I mean blogging remotely, as I’m not actually at the event! So think of this as a live, as it happens, real time opinion!

Oh, and I’m not sophisticated enough to have automatic updates, so you’ll have to keep on hitting refresh, or else follow me on Twitter.

All the coverage after the jump.

Back in 2001, Microsoft laid siege to the Web. Thanks to its dominant desktop position, it dominated the browser market with IE6 and ultimately killed off its competitors. The result was years of stagnation, a willful disregard of Web standards, and a Web development environment that actively discouraged any innovation throughout the Noughties.

Today, Apple is doing the same to the mobile Web. Not by a dominant market position, but by a lawsuit for patent infringement that it’s thrown at HTC.

And not just any old lawsuit. If they win, Apple will get a permanent injunction against HTC, which will bar them from importing or selling touchscreen smartphones in the US, along with triple damages and maximum interest for all such smartphones they’ve already sold.

In other words – the end of HTC, the end of Android, and the end of any innovation in the smartphone market.

This is is huge. This has the potential to be more damaging than Microsoft ever thought of being.

Read on for how Apple is threatening the mobile Web in the most aggressive attack yet made.

The Apple iPad has now launched and all the hype has dissipated like the lancing of a grotesquely engorged ulcerous boil. Through the clearing mist lies reality and the path to the future, which, oddly, doesn’t feature the iPad at all.

In fact the only thing that’s caused the iPad to exist in the first place is the limitations of current display technology.

Find out why after the jump.

With Apple rumoured to be announcing its 4th generation iPhone on January 27th (along with one or two other products, apparently!), the rumours are flying thick and fast over what could be included.

Fortunately, French site NowhereElse.fr (which apparently is French for “Nowhere else” ;) has rendered a nice visualization of the rumoured specs, with nice, if completely arbitrary, probabilities of each feature.

In what seems like an almost unprecedented move, O2 and AT&T have collectively managed to annoy their respective UK and US customers in one go following yesterday’s announcement of the new iPhone 3G S.

They’ve both come up with new pricing plans that serve to do one thing to their loyal (not to mention, extremely cash-strapped) customers: screw ‘em!

Here we go – the Apple iPhone 3GS has been officially announced in all its glory! The s stands for speed, apparently, as it’s faster than any iPhone before it. 7.2Mbps HSDPA, OpenGL/ES version 2 for super-fast 3D graphics, 3.2 megapixel camera complete with auto-focus and auto-exposure – nice!

More details after the jump (the details are being live-blogged courtesy of Gizmodo and Twitter, so refresh to read more!)

Just hours before the new Apple iPhone is due to be announced (assuming the rumours are true, that is!), details and pics of the new phone have been leaked all over the Web.

Well, I say leaked – it’s only a leak if these things are true, otherwise it’s just mad ramblings from an overexcited Apple fan-boy!

The fan-boy in question, though, John Gruber, has been right before, and what he says makes a lot of sense.

So read on for more details of the new Apple iPhone 3GS that should be announced in the next few hours (tip: don’t get too excited!)