Lack of iPhone 4: Apple's pleasant problem that hurts nevertheless

I know many electronics vendors would love trading places with Apple right now. After all, who would not want this scenario: thousands of consumers lining up at your retail outlets, eagerly awaiting their turn for the chance to part with their hard-earned money in order to lay their hands on your latest product.

Hell, I know several people who would sell their own mothers for the remotest opportunity to land in the vicinity of that scenario.

Apple to recall iPhone 4?

A story that appeared in the online edition of the U.K. newspaper Daily Mail said that Apple CEO Steve Jobs might have no choice but to recall the iPhone 4, the latest edition of the Cupertino company's smart phone. Apparently, consumer concern about the diminishing radio signal quality of the handset, and the uncharacteristic mishandling of initial customer complaints by Jobs and company might have painted the normally cool company into a corner.