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Rare Apple Antennagate Q&A video resurfaces online

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The Q&A session of one of Apple’s most notable events in the last 20 years has surfaced online, and you should watch it before it vanishes.

Even if you didn’t follow Apple closely back in 2010, you have probably heard about Antennagate and the last-minute press conference that pulled Steve Jobs from a family vacation in Hawaii. Soon after Apple released the i Phone 4, users noticed that the cell signal would drop significantly depending on how they held the device. Apple scheduled an emergency event just weeks after the i Phone 4 hit the shelves. Jobs explained that the signal drop wasn’t exclusive to the i Phone 4, but users could get a free case or return the phone for a full refund.

After the event, Jobs was joined by then-COO Tim Cook and Bob Mansfield, Apple’s senior vice president of Mac Hardware Engineering, for a Q&A with the press. John Gruber recalled asking the question that prompted Jobs, Cook, and Mansfield to pull their caseless i Phones from their pockets. However, the actual video had never surfaced.

Earlier this week, You Tube channel Sir Mix-A-Lot Rare Music published the entire 47-minute Q&A session. There is no information on how it obtained the video or whether Apple plans to file a copyright takedown request.