Rumored Steve Jobs Email Says 2% of iPhones Affected by 3G Problems, Fix Coming

Assuming Cote Collaborative is correct, Apple sold 3 million iPhone 3Gs in the first month, and assuming that we believe a report indicating that a MacRumors reader received an email from Steve Jobs saying the following:

We are working on some bugs which affect around 2% of the iPhones shipped, and hope to have a software update soon.

Steve

then the iPhone's 3G connectivity problem affects about 60,000 phones. Apple has replied to emails to Steve Jobs with brief responses before (most likely someone speaking on his behalf), so the email is possible. However, while I believe there is no doubt there is a problem, I would say mark this report with a big "rumor" stamp.

After all,

• there weren't any email headers provided
• from the worldwide reports of issues, it sounds like a lot more than 60,000
• if it's 2% of the iPhones shipped, some users have horrible luck

I've expressed my doubts about the low "problem percentages" tossed about for some time, as well as to whether or not Apple can fix this with software. Assuming they do roll out a fix, let's hope it's not a band-aid as in the case of the NVIDIA mobile GPU issue.

And please, please, Apple, can we get some openness around this? I mean real openness.