{"id":23755,"date":"2026-09-24T15:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T14:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/?p=23755"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:16:39","slug":"the-antennagate-video-weve-been-missing-for-16-years-has-finally-surfaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/24\/the-antennagate-video-weve-been-missing-for-16-years-has-finally-surfaced\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Antennagate\u2019 Video We\u2019ve Been Missing for 16 Years Has Finally Surfaced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p3 wp-block-paragraph\">Remember <strong>Antennagate<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">Back in July 2010, Steve Jobs walked onto the stage at Apple\u2019s Town Hall to deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/apple-antennagate-scandal-timeline-10-year-anniversary-2020-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iPhone 4 antenna controversy.<\/a> Tim Cook and Bob Mansfield joined him for what turned into a lengthy Q&amp;A with the press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve known about that Q&amp;A for <strong>16 years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">We just haven\u2019t been able to watch it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">Until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1172-1024x552.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1172-1024x552.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1172-300x162.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1172-768x414.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1172.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">A previously unseen <strong>47-minute recording of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPhone_4#Antenna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Antennagate<\/a> Q&amp;A has surfaced on YouTube<\/strong>, finally giving us a video record of the part of that infamous Apple press conference that was left out of the footage Apple released at the time. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/09\/24\/iphone-4-antennagate-qa-video-surfaces\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">MacRumors<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Apple iPhone 4 \u201cAntennagate\u201d Q&amp;A - Steve Jobs, Tim Cook &amp; Bob Mansfield\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BiN5ERktXz0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s something wonderfully 2010 about seeing all three of them together, answering questions about the <strong>iPhone 4<\/strong> while the whole \u201cAntennagate\u201d saga was unfolding in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">Even more fascinating: Daring Fireball\u2019s John Gruber, who was actually in the room that day, has <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2026\/09\/iphone_4_antennagate_q_and_a?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">written about the newly surfaced footage<\/a> \u2014 including his own question at around <strong>18:45<\/strong>, where Jobs, Cook and Mansfield answered without actually saying a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1173-1024x575.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1173-1024x575.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1173-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1173-768x431.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1173-1536x862.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_1173.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">They simply held up their iPhone 4s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Without cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s exactly the kind of tiny Apple-history moment that photographs can capture, but video makes completely different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">And then there\u2019s Jobs himself. The Q&amp;A contains several lengthy answers that have been remembered for years, including one where he takes time to explain what Apple had learned from the entire episode \u2014 and another, much later in the session, where he talks about Apple\u2019s philosophy of owning or controlling the core technology behind its products. (<a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2026\/09\/iphone_4_antennagate_q_and_a?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Daring Fireball<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t some new Apple event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">It isn\u2019t a new product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s something much more <em>intimate<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p3 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A missing piece of Apple history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p4 wp-block-paragraph\">Sixteen years later, we finally get to sit in the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p5 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BiN5ERktXz0\">Watch the full 47-minute Q&amp;A on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Antennagate? Back in July 2010, Steve Jobs walked onto the stage at Apple\u2019s Town Hall to deal with the iPhone 4 antenna controversy. Tim Cook and Bob Mansfield joined him for what turned into a lengthy Q&amp;A with the press. We\u2019ve known about that Q&amp;A for 16 years. We just haven\u2019t been able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2786,174,16],"tags":[3816,3814,3817,2291,3812,2445,399,3208,3811,3815,3810,2584,560,3539,3813],"class_list":["post-23755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-blog","category-blog","category-iphone","tag-antennagate","tag-audience","tag-bob-mansfield","tag-footage","tag-hawaii","tag-iphone-4","tag-media","tag-press","tag-press-conference","tag-qa","tag-resurfaced","tag-steve","tag-steve-jobs","tag-tim-cook","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23755"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23763,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755\/revisions\/23763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}