Interesting read: ...Jobs and Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design chief, were exceedingly proud of it [aluminium iPhone]. But because neither of them was an expert in the physics of radio waves, they didn’t realize they created a beautiful brick. Radio waves don’t travel through metal well. “I and Rubén Caballero” — Apple’s antenna expert — “had to go up to the boardroom and explain to Steve and Ive that you cannot put radio waves through metal,” says Phil Kearney, an engineer who left Apple in 2008. “And 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, ‘Why can’t we just make a little seam for the radio waves to escape through?’ And you have to explain to them why you just can’t.” nytimes/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-said-let-there-be-an-iphone.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all&
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 22:07:21 +0000
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