{"id":2239,"date":"2002-04-25T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2002-04-25T04:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2002-04-25T00:01:42","modified_gmt":"2002-04-25T04:01:42","slug":"nokia_frank_nuovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/nokia_frank_nuovo\/","title":{"rendered":"nokia: frank nuovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelspecter.com\/ny\/2001\/2001_11_26_nokia.html\">&#8220;The Phone Guy&#8221;<\/a> is an article by Michael Specter on how Nokia came to revolutionize and conquer the world market for cell phones. Good reading.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[Erik] Anderson reached for his briefcase and turned it upside down; at least a dozen telephones came tumbling out. He grabbed the oldest among them, the nine-year-old 101. &#8220;See the space here?&#8221; He pointed to a gap between the numeric keypad and the scrolling keys above it. &#8220;Frank [Nuovo] did it with his own hand,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Look at the racetrack, a curved oval shape. It was subtle. You wouldn&#8217;t notice it consciously.&#8221; He rubbed his thumb slowly across every line and contour. &#8220;Look at the earpiece. It has three holes. But what shape are the holes? Three ovals. Look at the microphone. It&#8217;s a little oval. It cost money to make those holes into oval shapes. A circle would have been cheaper. You don&#8217;t notice it\u2014but you see it, you feel it. The phone creates a feeling of coherence, of understanding, which is both intellectual and emotional. It is a sense of organic rightness.&#8221; He glanced over at me. &#8220;You think this is a bunch of crap, don&#8217;t you?&#8221; he asked, amused as my eyes moved from the cell phone to Alberti&#8217;s essay, passages of which Anderson had underlined. &#8220;What could making a goddam cell phone have to do with the Renaissance?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[ via <a href=\"http:\/\/beebo.org\/gulfstream\/\">gulfstream<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Phone Guy&#8221; is an article by Michael Specter on how Nokia came to revolutionize and conquer the world market for cell phones. Good reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheesedip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}