{"id":6941,"date":"2010-06-26T08:33:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=6941"},"modified":"2011-03-16T21:22:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:22:43","slug":"just-avoid-holding-it-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/06\/26\/just-avoid-holding-it-that-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Just avoid holding it that way"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.<\/i><\/p>\n

David Pogue, technology maven at the New York Times, is in what can only be called Desperate Back-Track Mode over the iPhone hold-it-wrong-and-it-dies design debacle. The poor schnuck<\/i> failed to realize that his perfectly performing “free-for-as-long-as-you-want-it-David” iPhone4 tester was likely a carefully pre-screened model not some of the shelf POS you and I buy. Fair enough. Would you risk any old specimen assembled by one of a long line of suicidal Foxconn workers when your reviewer has an audience of millions?<\/p>\n

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Pogue backtracks, while still stepping in it.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

So how should we hold it, Mr. Jobs?<\/p>\n

Ummm …. you mean not this way as in the video at Apple.com<\/a>? Better check it out quick before they change it.<\/p>\n

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Or this:<\/p>\n

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Or even this:<\/p>\n

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Hand on the antenna seam, every time.<\/p>\n

Yeah. Sure. I know. It’s an isolated occurrence.<\/p>\n

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\nAn isolated occurrence.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

Maybe a spot of the Old Bard is called for:<\/p>\n

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I know BS when I smell it and this one reeks to high heaven.<\/p>\n

Disclosure: No AAPL position. You think I’m stoopid?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. David Pogue, technology maven at the New York Times, is in what can only be called Desperate Back-Track Mode over the iPhone hold-it-wrong-and-it-dies design debacle. The poor schnuck failed to realize that his perfectly performing “free-for-as-long-as-you-want-it-David” iPhone4 tester was likely a carefully pre-screened model not some of the … Continue reading Just avoid holding it that way<\/span> →<\/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":[28,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hall-of-shame","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6941"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10605,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions\/10605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}