When it turned out to be such a non-issue. Apple neither recalled the phones nor even slowed production; the phone still sold more than any previous model and more than any competing model that year. Maybe they were holding it wrong--or the people it affected most have a certain skin condition that caused a resistive short across that gap. (It does happen, you know.) For as big an issue the media made out of it, it sure had no affect on sales or use.