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The Reality Distortion Field Appears to Be Suffering Attenuation Issues as Well

“That form ever follows function. This is the law.”

Evidently Apple (AAPL) didn’t pay much heed to Louis Sullivan’s design principle when developing the iPhone 4, because, according to a Bloomberg source, the company knew that the device’s antenna design might be problematic. A person familiar with the matter told the news service that Apple’s own antenna expert warned the company that the design could cause reception problems and generally presented a serious engineering challenge.

That press conference Apple is holding tomorrow morning is going to be very, very interesting.


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While it’s tempting to see the Huffington Post’s Pulitzer as a “big win for new media,” or something like that, the real story is that these organizations — the Huffington Post, the New York Times, the Washington Post — are becoming more like each other. Old media and new media are increasingly antiquated terms.

— Journalism professor Jay Rosen to HuffPo media writer Michael Calderone (via GigaOM)