{"id":7970,"date":"2013-09-26T19:15:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T00:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7970"},"modified":"2013-09-26T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T00:22:29","slug":"apples-skankphone-was-the-iphones-ugly-twin-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/26\/apples-skankphone-was-the-iphones-ugly-twin-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s &ldquo;Skankphone&rdquo; Was the iPhone&rsquo;s Ugly Twin Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3017083\/apples-skankphone-was-the-iphones-ugly-twin-brother\">Austin Carr<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3017083\/apples-skankphone-was-the-iphones-ugly-twin-brother\"><p>Insiders recall how absurd it became when the engineering teams became increasingly split over who did and didn&rsquo;t have access to the real UI, despite needing to work together. Ganatra remembers having to sprint back and forth between rooms to serve as a secure translator between the two teams. &ldquo;I would go into the room where the full UI was, then come back and draw the rough proportions on the whiteboard for the other engineers,&rdquo; he recalls.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Though more engineers were eventually given access to the full-blown UI, Forstall&rsquo;s team was never truly on the same page. In fact, in Grignon&rsquo;s recollection, he had to go to extremes to work around the system to the point where he had to sit his own engineers next to one another with a curtain in between&mdash;one with full iPhone access, the other with Skankphone access&mdash;to debug the code.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Carr:Insiders recall how absurd it became when the engineering teams became increasingly split over who did and didn&rsquo;t have access to the real UI, despite needing to work together. Ganatra remembers having to sprint back and forth between rooms to serve as a secure translator between the two teams. &ldquo;I would go into the [&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":[38,295,31,85],"class_list":["post-7970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-history","tag-ios","tag-iphone"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970","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=7970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7971,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions\/7971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}