Creator of iPhone 4 antenna Apple tech support call admits it’s a fake

Those attempting to spread the myth of the “iPhone 4 antenna problem” have taken their efforts to new heights with the posting of what is claimed to be an “actual phone call recording” of a call placed to Apple tech support but upon examination turns out to be an obvious fake. The seven minute recording, posted to YouTube, depicts an automated Apple support voice not only claiming that the iPhone 4 can’t be used without a Bumper case (which is obviously not true), but also stating that the “rumor mill” says the iPhone is coming to Verizon in 2011 (something that Apple would never officially state on a pre-recorded automated message). We’ve had contact with the person who uploaded the “phone call” to YouTube and he has admitted to us that it’s a fake. The problem, of course, is one has to listen to a good chunk of the seven minute long faked recording in order to figure out that it’s fake (and less tuned in members of the iPhone userbase won’t figure that out at all), meaning that labeling the clip as an “actual phone call recording” is libelous and will only serve to create addition chaotic confusion over what has, for the vast majority of iPhone 4 users, been a complete non-issue.

The posting of a fake Apple tech support call comes on the heels of a major newspaper spreading fake rumors of a non-existent iPhone 4 recall when it attributed a quote from a Twitter account clearly labeled as being a satire of Steve Jobs as being an actual quote from Jobs. In any case, the fake Apple tech support phone call is right here (unless the spoofer has already come to his senses and yanked it), but we would ask that you make it clear to anyone you share it with that it is in fact verifiably NOT an actual Apple support call, and that the person who created it has admitted as much. If you think our fears in that regard might be overblown, the creator of the fake support call has admitted to us that “I had a friend of mine ready to take back her iPhone because she thought it was real.” Go figure.

Update: after we requested that the author of the YouTube clip cease mislabeling it as being real, he changed it to read “Actual Phone Recording… Or Is It?” which in our book is just as false but at least he’s slightly come to his senses.