Daring FireballによるiPhone4アンテナ問題に関するアップルの解説の「訳」

アップルがiPhone4のアンテナ問題に対する説明をした。
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/02appleletter.html

この「アップル特有のPR語」をJohn Gruberが普通の英語に訳したものがこれ。
http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/translation_iphone_4

これをさらにテングが狗訳してみる。

Apple

    The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple’s

    history. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best

    smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it. So we were

    surprised when we read reports of reception problems, and we immediately

    began investigating them. Here is what we have learned.

Daring Fireball

We cannot believe we had to write this fucking letter.

tengu

こんな手紙を書かなきゃいけないなんて信じられない。

    To start with, gripping almost any mobile phone in certain ways will reduce

    its reception by 1 or more bars. This is true of iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, as

    well as many Droid, Nokia and RIM phones.

We cannot believe we’re getting shit for this.

こんなことで叩かれるなんて信じられない。

    But some users have reported that iPhone 4 can drop 4 or 5 bars when

    tightly held in a way which covers the black strip in the lower left corner

    of the metal band. This is a far bigger drop than normal, and as a result

    some have accused the iPhone 4 of having a faulty antenna design.

(No translation necessary.)

翻訳の必要無し。

    At the same time, we continue to read articles and receive hundreds of

    emails from users saying that iPhone 4 reception is better than the iPhone

    3GS. They are delighted. This matches our own experience and testing. What

    can explain all of this?

It really is a better antenna and gets better reception, overall, than any

previous iPhone. That’s really the hell of this whole goddamn situation. It’s

like a two steps forward, one step back design, except maybe more like three

steps forward, because this thing is faster at downloading, 10 times faster at

uploading, and most importantly is better at not dropping calls with a weak

signal. But, yes, there’s that one step back, wherein it can suffer from

unintended attenuation when you bridge the lower-left antenna gap with your

skin, and frankly, we’re a little pissed that this one step back is getting all

the attention.

これは良いアンテナで受信も全体的には以前のiPhoneより良い。

だからこの状況が悔ましい。3歩前進して一歩戻った(だけなのに、その一歩で叩かれているから)。

ダウンロードが速くなり、アップロードにおいては10倍速くなった。

そして、シグナルが弱いところでもコールが切れにくくなった。

でも一歩の後退がある。左下のアンテナの穴を手でふさぐと悪影響がおきる。

(改善がいくつもあったのに)この一つの問題がこんなに注目を浴びていることを

正直に不愉快に思う。

    We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both

    simple and surprising.

We are going to blame AT&T.

AT&Tのせいにしよう。

    Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to

    calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our

    formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should

    for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when

    we should be displaying as few as 2 bars.

We decided from the outset to set the formula for our bars-of-signal strength

indicator to make the iPhone look good — to make it look as if it “gets more

bars”. That decision has now bitten us on our ass.

最初っから「受信バー」を多めに見せてiPhone4の受信が良くなったように見せようとしたが

それが裏目に出た。

    Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a

    certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but

    they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their

    big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first

    place.

Yes, with no case on the phone, your signal strength can drop by about 20 or

even 30 percent depending how you hold the phone. We’re going to change the bar

algorithm so that you’ll only lose one bar (maybe two, if you’re holding the

phone obnoxiously tight or have gross sweaty palms) if you’re holding it that

way.

ケース無しのiPhone4は持ち方次第で20から30%も受信シグナルが弱まる。

バー表示のアルゴリズムを変更して(アンテナをふさいだときは)バーが一つだけ消えるようにしよう。

もし、馬鹿みたいに強く握りしめたり、気持悪いほど発汗している手で握っている場合は

二つバーを消してもいいだろう。

    To fix this, we are adopting AT&T’s recently recommended formula for

    calculating how many bars to display for a given signal strength. The real

    signal strength remains the same, but the iPhone’s bars will report it far

    more accurately, providing users a much better indication of the reception

    they will get in a given area. We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit

    taller so they will be easier to see.

We are braced for the backlash when, after installing this update, people who

weren’t experiencing any problems at all with their iPhones start complaining,

loudly, that their phones which used to get five bars now only get three or two

or whatever from the same locations, and we all know — us and everyone reading

this — that Gizmodo will immediately declare that the update has made iPhone 4

reception worse, even though we’ve just explained that we’re not changing

anything related to actual reception, but rather only to how we indicate signal

strength.

覚悟はできている。この変更をすると、以前は問題のなかったユーザが受信が弱くなったと大声で苦情を言うだろう。

バーが五つだったのが３つか二つになってしまったと。そしてGizmondoはこのアップデートがiPhone4

の受信を弱めたと宣言するだろう。表示の変化だけで、実際の受信は弱まっていないのに。

    We will issue a free software update within a few weeks that incorporates

    the corrected formula. Since this mistake has been present since the

    original iPhone, this software update will also be available for the iPhone

    3GS and iPhone 3G.

(No translation necessary.)

解説無し。

    We have gone back to our labs and retested everything, and the results are

    the same — the iPhone 4’s wireless performance is the best we have ever

    shipped. For the vast majority of users who have not been troubled by this

    issue, this software update will only make your bars more accurate. For

    those who have had concerns, we apologize for any anxiety we may have

    caused.

Don’t fuck this thing up for us. We mean, have you seen the Retina Display?

(私達のiPhone4のデビューを)台無にしないでほしい。 Retina Displayを見てないのか？

    As a reminder, if you are not fully satisfied, you can return your

    undamaged iPhone to any Apple Retail Store or the online Apple Store within

    30 days of purchase for a full refund.

    (もし製品に不満があるなら30日以内に返品可能、、)

We dare you.

And take your class action suits filed four days after we released the goddamn

thing and stick them up your fucking asses.

(返品)できるものならやってみろ。

発売４日後に集団訴訟なんかしあがって、、、(このブログにはふわわしくない表現)。

    We hope you love the iPhone 4 as much as we do.

Seriously, have you seen it?

マジの話、(iPhone4を)見てないの？

    Thank you for your patience and support.

Don’t hold it that way, or buy a case.

そういう持ち方するな。それかケースを買いな。