For what was a mythological problem, Apple is offering actual hard cash to deal with it, albeit not very much. If you bought an iPhone 4 before Friday, you can soon again request a free bumper or ask for $15. It's more of a moral victory for the claimants than anything else. Anyway, I do have an ulterior motive for bringing up this bit of news. Some in the Apple press has since converged on a version of the tale where the big bad media blew up a common and minor defect into a huge scandal to bully Apple, possibly out of an anti-Apple bias. In other words, Gene Steinberg is still mad at Consumer Reports. What’s the story as of last week, Morning Glory? (Emphasis mine)

A notable example is the curious way in which they handled the alleged “Antennagate” scandal, involving the original iPhone 4 and the possibility that you could kill reception with what became known as a “death grip.” Despite all the visual evidence that a similar phenomenon could be easily duplicated on other phones when held in somewhat different ways, CR decided that only the iPhone 4 was at fault and, despite getting the highest numeric rating in a smartphone feature, still wouldn’t recommend the product.

Well, I guess the statement can be considered technically accurate, as practically strangling other phones is a somewhat different way to hold a phone as compared to the way Apple illustrated to people as to how to hold the iPhone 4.