{"id":471,"date":"2010-07-02T10:19:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T17:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2010-07-02T10:19:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T17:19:59","slug":"signals-and-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/signals-and-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Signal Strength and Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extreme publicity over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/03\/technology\/03apple.html\">iPhone 4 signal strength issue<\/a> reminds me of the similarly overblown media coverage regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/07\/us\/07mit.html\">leaks in the Frank Gehry-designed MIT Stata Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, the affected products are gorgeous, highly-acclaimed, innovative masterpieces. They&#8217;re already famous in their own right. They&#8217;re sufficiently innovative that some unforeseen problems are bound to crop up. And apparently, people love to find those flaws.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what you deserve for spending too much money on that product [which I secretly want and now feel better about not having].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these reports leave for the last paragraph the fact that &#8220;the iPhone 4 enjoys better reception than any of its earlier models.&#8221; The same goes for quotes from Stata Center occupants, who maintain that\u00a0&#8220;it is a joy to work in this building.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extreme publicity over the iPhone 4 signal strength issue reminds me of the similarly overblown media coverage regarding leaks in the Frank Gehry-designed MIT Stata Center. In both cases, the affected products are gorgeous, highly-acclaimed, innovative masterpieces. They&#8217;re already famous in their own right. They&#8217;re sufficiently innovative that some unforeseen problems are bound to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/signals-and-leaks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Signal Strength and Leaks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}