Steve Jobs became the butt of countless jokes over the weekend after declaring that there’s a right and wrong way to hold the iPhone 4. But that didn’t stop throngs of eager customers from lining up to buy one.

Apple usually pipes up the Monday after the release of a big new product to crow about sales figures, and this time around the story was no different. More than 1.7 million iPhone 4 handsets were rung up between Thursday’s launch day and the end of business Saturday, making for the “most successful product launch in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs in Apple’s Monday morning press release.

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Monday’s announcement included no mention of Jobs’ BP-level gaffe late last week, in which he told a user complaining about the iPhone 4′s apparent tendency to lose reception when it’s held in the lower-left corner: “Just don’t hold it that way.” Jobs was still sending e-mail Sunday, telling one annoyed MacRumors reader: “There are no reception issues. Stay Tuned.” (Hey, at least he hasn’t called us “small people” yet.)

Bloggers and pundits argued through the weekend about whether the iPhone 4′s “death grip” problem represented a serious design flaw on Apple’s part (the antenna on the new iPhone is integrated into the stainless steel band that rings the outer edge of the handset) or was being overblown.

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