{"id":19775,"date":"2013-10-26T21:54:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T21:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-second-iphone-prototype-in-early-2006\/"},"modified":"2013-10-26T21:54:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T21:54:48","slug":"the-second-iphone-prototype-in-early-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-second-iphone-prototype-in-early-2006\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The second iPhone prototype in early 2006 &hellip; incorporated a touch-screen and OS X, but it was made entirely of brushed aluminum. Jobs and Jonathan Ive, Apple\u2019s design chief, were exceedingly proud of it. But because neither of them was an expert in the physics of radio waves, they didn\u2019t realize they created a beautiful brick. Radio waves don\u2019t travel through metal well. \u201cI and Rub\u00e9n Caballero\u201d \u2014 Apple\u2019s antenna expert \u2014 \u201chad to go up to the boardroom and explain to Steve and Ive that you cannot put radio waves through metal,\u201d says Phil Kearney, an engineer who left Apple in 2008. \u201cAnd it was not an easy explanation. Most of the designers are artists. The last science class they took was in eighth grade. But they have a lot of power at Apple. So they ask, \u2018Why can\u2019t we just make a little seam for the radio waves to escape through?\u2019 And you have to explain to them why you just can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/06\/magazine\/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html?ref=magazine&amp;_r=0&amp;pagewanted=all\">And Then Steve Said, \u2018Let There Be an iPhone\u2019 &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second iPhone prototype in early 2006 &hellip; incorporated a touch-screen and OS X, but it was made entirely of brushed aluminum. Jobs and Jonathan Ive, Apple\u2019s design chief, were exceedingly proud of it. But because neither of them was an expert in the physics of radio waves, they didn\u2019t realize they created a beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-58X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}