Nice job of making assumptions without apparently reading through many forum posts first.
The vast majority of iPhone 4s users do not have this problem. If they did, and with over 6 million units already activated; this would headline every tech blog / web site and probably national news. You're posting inside of a forum topic devoted to people with this problem. Those who don't, never come here. (would be like a swimsuit model at a weightwatchers meeting).
As for wanting Steve back to fix the problem; while he was an astounding Marketing Expert and had fantastic ideas about creating new tech; he wasn't exactly a consumer advocate. If you remember Antennagate, with the iPhone 4, his solution to reception problems from holding the phone in your left palm was "don't hold it that way". In yesterday's Macbreak Weekly Podcast, Leo Leport spoke about Jobs' reaction to antenna complaints, as outlined in the new biography; Jobs basically said screw them!
Fortunately; this is almost certainly a software / firmware related issue, and I am satisfied with the efforts that tech support has made in contacting me and many others (via our AppleID contact information) to gather useful information in order to find and fix the bug that is causing this problem.
This isn't something that can be diagnosed overnight, so give them a chance to work on it.
As for some posts that accuse Apple of trying to cover this up; because they haven't released a formal statement to acknowledge the problem; I hereby present the simplified translation of any such statement, prior to a fix being released:
Hello, we at Apple would like to officially notify all class-action attorneys and other am ulance chasers that we have become aware of an issue where about .5% of new iPhone 4s owners are experiencing a much faster than anticipated drain on their daily battery life. Despite the fact that this was not detected in our pre-release product testing; that we are actively working with the user community to diagnose and fix the problem; and that 99.5% of the new iPhone 4s owners have absolutely no problems at all - We just wanted to make this statement to help you with your TV, Radio and Newsprint ads to seek out clients to sue us. (Perhaps you might want to target your list of potential saps by placing an iAdd). While we realize that you'll end up settling out of court; since its cheaper for us to pay your extortion, rather than to pay ongoing legal and court costs; we just thought you'd appreciate our efforts to help you pocket millions of dollars in legal fees; while gaining your clients a few pennies apiece. Of course, your clients will end up paying back those few pennies, along with every other Apple Customer who isn't part of your suit, in the form of higher prices that we must place on all of our products to cover such legal (blackmail) costs. Personally; we'd rather be dealing with the Corleone family; as they are at least more honest about their "protection" collections, but one mus do what one must do.
.... The preceding is just my personal opinion to the extent that the first amendment still allows such things and is not intended to bismerch or defame the good reputation of any slime ball lawyers or law firms who feel that such a description might be accurate enough to describe them, yet still provide an opportunity to sue someone else. (I believe that the Supreme Court is still supporting the right to utilize satire in making a point; as protected free speech!)
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