I’ve just finished watching today’s Apple press conference about the iPhone 4, and I can’t help but being totally surprised about the mess we created about this antenna issue.

After watching the cellphone videos Apple posted on the antenna page, I think we should all shut up for a second and think about the material we post on our blogs.

We at MacStories have tried to not give the “Antennagate” that much of attention. I got my iPhone 4 some days after the US official release, had some trouble cutting my SIM and wasn’t able to test the phone for a week. After I did, I was unable to experience the same “big issues” many tech blogs were reporting. And after the 4.1 Beta 1 update, I did not see the “Death Grip” at all in strong-signal areas. The so-called “Death Grip” was never a daily-usage issue for me anyway. On the other hand, Cody still has to get his iPhone 4.

So, we decided to post a very few selected links about this issue, but other blogs didn’t act like us. They shot videos in rooms with low-signal just to prove that fingers could attenuate a cellphone signal. Too bad I’ve never seen a daily-usage video on the field. They collected videos from strangers showing the “Death Grip”, claiming them to be “videos from loyal readers”. They launched petitions. They created Facebook pages about it. Really, I don’t think I’ve seen such a bad campaign against any company on the internet in my entire lifetime.

What drives me crazy, though, is the actual nature of the aforementioned “issue”. Like Steve Jobs said earlier today, and just like I’ve said over and over for the past weeks to anyone who asked me, every cellphone suffers from signal attenuation when you touch its weak spots. Period. It’s physics. It’s nature, for God’s sake. And you, page-views lovers tech blogs, speculated about it.

Looking back now that everyone seems to have magically shut up about the iPhone 4 antenna, I think I’ve made the right choice not to talk about it that much on MacStories. Yes, the bars go down. Yes, it’s a cool trick to show off to your friends. No, it doesn’t change the fact that the iPhone 4 is, to me, the best smartphone currently on the planet.

See, I could go on talking about tech blogs for hours. There’s so much that could be said about rumors, speculations and clearly biased reviews. We are not perfect, either. We know we can - and have to - get better every day, and we will. No one is perfect, Apple isn’t either.

I just wish that the next time an “issue” will come around, we could just shut up and wait for an official response. We’re no engineers, we’re just writers. It’s always better to stick to your own competences and let the experts do their jobs.

After all, Steve Jobs deserves the benefit of the doubt. I’m sorry we didn’t give it to him this time.