{"id":2614,"date":"2010-07-13T09:29:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2010-07-13T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:29:54","slug":"asterisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/asterisk\/","title":{"rendered":"Asterisk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/804442562\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/804442562\"><p>The iPhone 4, by most accounts, is absolutely excellent. I love mine. It&rsquo;s a huge step forward, and all previous iPhones look dated and primitive by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>But there&rsquo;s a giant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asterisk#Barry_Bonds\">asterisk<\/a>. It has two major flaws, both of which appear to be physical and unsolvable by software updates&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Used to be that Apple&rsquo;s products just worked, and if there was a problem you could count on them fixing it. iPhone 4 seems to be following the path of the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter, where Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/02\/apple-responds-to-iphone-4-reception-problems\/\">stonewalls<\/a> and eventually offers <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/03\/mini-displayport-to-dual-link-dvi-adapter-improved\/\">a fix<\/a> that still <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/us\/reviews\/MB571Z\/A?mco=MTcwNTA4MjM\">doesn&rsquo;t work properly<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment: The iPhone 4, by most accounts, is absolutely excellent. I love mine. It&rsquo;s a huge step forward, and all previous iPhones look dated and primitive by comparison. But there&rsquo;s a giant asterisk. It has two major flaws, both of which appear to be physical and unsolvable by software updates&#8230; Used to be that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}