D8 Video: Steve Jobs Holds Out Hope That AT&T Can Fix Its iPhone Problem

June 1, 2010 at 11:52 pm PT

Sometimes it makes sense to ask a simple, direct question. Like this one, from a D8 attendee to Apple CEO Steve Jobs: When can we start making phone calls with our iPhones?

Jobs’s answer is meandering but hopeful: Without blaming AT&T (T) by name, he makes it clear the carrier is to blame for poor call quality, not Apple (AAPL). But he suggests that things may get better within a few months.

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