Really? Because tens (hundreds) of millions of people found it _totally acceptable_ and made that phone the top selling phone.
Not to mention that they found that the "issue" was a non issue in practice.
So Antennagate was real, iPhone <5 dropped more calls than any other phone on AT&T. That's the disingenuous part about how Steve handled Antennagate - sure competitors dropped bars when holding hand over their antennas but the competitors antennas weren't badly designed such that they would be easily covered while holding the phone and their phones didn't drop as many calls.
People decided to live with it but 2 out of my 3 friends are on non-iPhones as their work doesn't afford them dropped calls.
It might be that I get a good signal where I live and work (and in 2 different countries, neither of which is the states). So, YMMV.
But, I do remember iPhone 4 owners actually reporting LESS dropped calls than iPhone 3GS:
"iPhone 4 owners are reporting fewer dropped calls than iPhone 3GS owners":
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/04/report-iphone-4-owners-report...
And after the media noise blew out, there weren't any complains about it --as if the forums and people forgot all about it--, just people using their phones.
And AT&T could be to blame, not the iPhone. For:
""According to a March study by ChangeWave Research, AT&T is the reason the iPhone drops calls. Users of the Verizon iPhone 4 reported a 1.8% dropped-call rate, the same rate as users of other Verizon phones. Users of the AT&T iPhone 4 reported a 4.8% dropped-call rate, 2.7 times the rate of Verizon iPhone users.""
http://articles.cnn.com/2012-02-20/tech/tech_mobile_iphone-4...
But I guess Apple probably knew that when they bought the domain.