After 'taking a beating,' Apple to offer iPhone 4 fix? By Doug Gross, CNN



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(CNN) -- After a decade of hit products that made Apple the cutting-edge darling of the mobile and computing world, the rollout of the iPhone 4 has been an atypical and ugly scratch on the company's glowing image.



From a lost prototype of the device that slipped into the hands of a technology blog to what some have called a tone-deaf response to the new phone's reception problems, the knocks have kept on coming.



On Friday, Steve Jobs and his Cupertino, California-based company hope to set things to rights with a news conference expected to address the drumbeat of complaints, and bad press, about the