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iPhone 3G - already with pictures ! (aka "iPhone Girl")

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She has been fired

According to news from a Chinese newspaper the girl has been identified and fired, along with a few others in the same group.
 
daca said:
According to news from a Chinese newspaper the girl has been identified and fired, along with a few others in the same group.
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if true, i'm not really surprised. put yourself in apples shoes, all fun and laughs aside, this is not something i would want to see happening in my company either. employees messing around with the products, be it taking pictures, browsing the web, etc.

i wish apple would have been more lenient and not fired the poor girl but like i said, i understand why they did fire her.
 
Freedom of speech

alFR said:
Not sure what country you're in, so I'll not comment on that. However, this is a private forum so the mods have the right to delete whatever they like if it breaks the forum rules, notwithstanding any rights you have elsewhere.
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"The owners of Mac Forums reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason."
Freedom of speech is something no one has tested to such an agreement. In a situation where discussion is according to any rules that can be predicted of the forum and subject is clearly in the limits of the normal discussion of the forum, there is a possibility that closing or removing a message on its own could be limitting freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech is the right to hold opinions without interference. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression. If someone at a park with free access was speaking whatever, he can't be gagged, not even with the land owners demand. Any message or thread that is removed for the reason of the agenda might be a violation.
 
bluelondon said:
if true, i'm not really surprised. put yourself in apples shoes, all fun and laughs aside, this is not something i would want to see happening in my company either. employees messing around with the products, be it taking pictures, browsing the web, etc.

i wish apple would have been more lenient and not fired the poor girl but like i said, i understand why they did fire her.
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but that's her job, to play with the phones!
 
iViet said:
but that's her job, to play with the phones!
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if it's in their job description to take pics of themselves then i see no reason why apple fired them. i am sure it is not their job otherwise apple would have no grounds for giving them the boot.
 
BTW, workers like her typically make a little over $200 a month

as reported by the Chinese newspaper.
 
$200 a month?

daca said:
as reported by the Chinese newspaper.
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that's pretty decent Foxconn$ wage - provided that you work your ass off on mandatory overtime. how else do you think we can buy an iphone so cheap :apple:?
 
There is NO WAY she will be fired. That will be a publicity nightmare for Apple.

Now that she is famous, she is going to quit the job anyway and go into the entertainment industry like TV Soap or singing. In Asia, talent and skill are not important as long as you are cute. Agents are going to climb over each others to sign her up since she is marketable now.
 
Poor girl! OP, you should have covered her face... look at what you have done.
 

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Not even newsworthy

She is sitting at a tech bench. The person across from her took a few pictures to TEST THE CAMERA. Believe it or not, people, they actually test the functionality of phones before sending them to you...yes, including the camera.

After they are tested, they are then wiped of any data. This one obviously missed that step.

Most factories have sample printouts of the primary colors to take pictures of, but they obviously didn't.

The person that should be in trouble is the worker who is supposed to wipe the data off the phones.
 
This thread has been alive for a week and is already the most viewed thread in the iPhone section!:eek: Crazy...all of the publicity this is getting!
 
Its insane but mostly because it is getting linked from alot of news sites (yahoo ect...).

Althouhg I do smell a new ad campaign.
 
After about a week, this story has made it to the front page of Yahoo.

http://www.yahoo.com/s/944090

HONG KONG - Who is the "iPhone Girl"?
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Pictures of an Asian factory worker found on a new iPhone sold to a British customer have generated keen discussion on the Internet about her identity — and her fate.

The three pictures, posted on the Apple discussion Web site MacRumors.com, show a young Asian woman working on what appears to be an assembly line for iPhones.

Dressed in a pink striped outfit and hat and wearing white gloves with yellow fingertips, the young woman now known on the Web as the "iPhone Girl" is shown smiling and making victory signs as she poses next to an iPhone.

The MacRumors.com user who posted the photos last week, identified as only "markm49uk" from Kingston-upon-Hull, England, said in a posting that one of the pictures showed up on a new 3G iPhone when the iTunes program was launched.

News reports say the woman may work at a factory run by an Apple contractor, Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group, in the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen.

Calls to Foxconn spokesman Edmund Ding went unanswered Wednesday. Ding also didn't immediately respond to an e-mail from The Associated Press seeking comment.

But the South China Morning Post on Wednesday quoted another Foxconn spokesman, Liu Kun, as confirming that the young woman in the pictures works for Foxconn.

Liu said workers testing the device took the pictures and may have forgotten to delete them, the Post reported.

Dubbing the mystery worker "China's prettiest factory girl," China's Southern Metropolitan Daily on Tuesday quoted an unidentified Foxconn official as saying the woman was not fired.

Apple publicist Jill Tan said the company had no comment.
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Moderators,
I would like to know if today is the most newbie sign ups you had ever? It probably is.
 
Great PR

Shows a clean and friendly working condition in China even though she's probably making $2/day and is 15 years old. Rumor has it, she was in the 2004 Olympics as a gymnast - but is too old now to perform.

She would have been good as the Milli Vanilli of the Opening ceremonies.

I wonder if she knows she is this popular? Maybe someone will locate her and rescue her from China...
 
Really?

powerbook911 said:
The conditions in that factory look decent. A lot better than a walmart factory.
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Hey powerbook 911 - when's the last time you've been in a "Walmart factory" or are you just spouting off with complete ignorance to the how things work in other parts of the world? Interesting comment - with, of course, nothing to back it up...

Show me proof of how "bad" Walmart's factories are - from what YOU'VE seen...
 
Mistake or not mistake,this is what we all desire...a job we can do well, and enjoy it at the same time....curses to anyone that would end the jobs of well deserving people....i think we should have a Miss Universe of the "working class" pagent !...she is CUTE
 
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