Michael Gartenberg talks about the schadenfreude of antennagate in Macworld. I had to look it up:
schadenfreude |ˈ sh ädənˌfroidə| (also Scha•den•freu•de)
noun
pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune
In other words, it’s how we Mac users sometimes feel when Windows PC users have problems. Or, put another way, how Apple haters felt when antennagate hit the iPhone 4.
Apple’s age of innocence in the mass media is over. Every move that Apple makes is going to be analyzed. Every word an Apple executive utters (or e-mails late at night) is going to be scrutinized. Every potential flaw, problem or mishap is going to be put under a microscope and examined from every possible angle. It may not be fair. It may not be right. But that’s the way it’s going to be from now on.
Welcome to internet life in the 21st century.