Last month when there was much news on the Apple iPhone 4 Antenna issue, people were quietly wondering if someone would lose a job over the issue. Then Steve Jobs held a conference during which he basically denied any wide spread antenna problems. Since then, Apple has been saying that there are no major issues with the antennas on the new iPhone 4 devices. Looking at the numbers, they appear to be correct.

There are issues with a select few devices, but the percentage is very small overall. Apple has tried to make good on this by giving all owners of iPhone 4s a bumper case which is supposed to solve the problem.

On Saturday we have learned that the head designer of the new antenna, Mark Papermaster is leaving the company. Upon first hearing this, the media jumped all over it. We’ve been hearing rumors swirling that Jobs asked Papermaster to leave because of his poorly designed antenna. However these rumors appear to be false. They are false simply because, if Apple were to get rid of Papermaster over the antenna issue, they would be admitting to themselves, and to the world that there are in fact major defects with the new iPhones.

Papermaster appears to have left on his own. Perhaps he had a better job offer somewhere, or maybe has plans on starting up something of his own. As of now, it doesn’t appear as though there was any bad blood between Jobs and Papermaster. There will be more news on this later.