Thursday, September 4, 2008

"Iphone Girl" would not have been news if it had been "Iphone Guy"

There is a good chance that you've heard nothing of this, it is a minor story. Recently though, an Iphone was purchased that had pictures already on it, and this time it wasn't of an entire tray of Iphones.
This one was of a cute Chinese factory worker posing for the camera.

This made instant headlines. Each news source speculating whether or not the poor girl would be fired for tainting the product or overall poor job performance (letting an Iphone go). Believe it or not Foxconn came out and said that the pictures were just testing the phone and that the girl wasn't fired.
All this media attention from around the globe made this poor girl a celebrity and the unofficial face of the company. So much so that she asked to go home for a day because the stress was too much for her.

After all this, what would have happened if it was a guy? I'm fairly certain that if it were a guy, the only places this story would've shown up was on some random guys blog.....wait....damn it!

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