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.
"It would appear that someone on the production line was having a bit of fun. Has anyone else found this?" the posting said.
The posting received more than 360 responses on MacRumors.com, with readers commenting and speculating about the woman's age, looks and working conditions — and whether the pictures had gotten her into trouble with her managers.
"She is so fired," a reader identified as "PredatoryWasp86" said.
"That's nice that at least they have some fun in the drab of assembling technology," another reader, "BrownManUPS," said.
"She looks about 12 or 13 to me! I don't think Stevo is going to be impressed at all. It looks a little bit too much like child labor," "sibruk" wrote, referring to Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs.
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.
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2 comments:
She is easily over 18. Many westerners including myself can not tell the difference in ages of Chinese women. I don't try anymore. When I started working in China, I thought that our engineers looked too young to be college graduates. It is the same problem with fat people in China. When you arrive you see very few fat people, but you learn to distinguish what is a Chinese "fat" person compared with a Chinese "skinny" person. The majority of Chinese "fat" persons would be considered skinny in the US.
by the way, part of the quality process is to check the camera function. just too bad that this picture was not deleted. haha
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