{"id":888,"date":"2012-09-27T14:10:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T12:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2012-09-27T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T12:10:51","slug":"scuffgate-how-could-this-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/888","title":{"rendered":"Scuffgate \u2013 How could this happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone 5 is upon us, and with it a new scandal, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20120923\/scuffgate-some-early-adopters-claim-iphone-5-case-is-scratch-tacular\/\" rel=\"external\">Scuffgate<\/a>&#8220;. Apparently, some devices come out of the box, <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showthread.php?t=1445493\" rel=\"external\">already showing scratches<\/a> on their aluminum enclosures. I did some research at a Foxconn plant, where the devices are assembled. As it turns out, Apple&#8217;s explanation\u2014that scratches are totally normal to these kinds of devices\u2014makes sense once you have seen the conditions under which the factory produces the iPhones. See for yourself. There is no scandal, no defective machine, and no magic. Aluminum just isn&#8217;t as strong as stainless steel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-photos\/2012-09-27\/iphone5_scuffgate.jpg\" class=\"content_image\" width=\"360\" height=\"980\"  alt=\"Scuffgate - How did it happen?\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone 5 is upon us, and with it a new scandal, &#8220;Scuffgate&#8220;. Apparently, some devices come out of the box, already showing scratches on their aluminum enclosures. I did some research at a Foxconn plant, where the devices are assembled. As it turns out, Apple&#8217;s explanation\u2014that scratches are totally normal to these kinds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[593,802,509,74,13,281],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-general","tag-foxconn","tag-apple","tag-humor","tag-iphone","tag-montage","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}