[Terretta]

This is the story that made the phrase catch on, note the URL:

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/

I find a contemporaneous account of your backstory here (edit: your edited in MacStories link points to this):

https://www.engadget.com/2010-06-24-double-stevemails-on-iph...

Which does contain your quote*, and is indeed a day earlier than the Wired story that got wide coverage.

However, the meme quote that is repeated today is from the Wired headline.

* Attributed to "Tipster" Rory Sinclair and his posterous blog.

[reaperman]

Ah, I see. "Just avoid holding it in that way" vs. "you're holding it wrong"