{"id":55,"date":"2008-08-30T06:20:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/30\/iphone-girl\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T11:31:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:31:38","slug":"iphone-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/iphone-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Girl mania hits the web"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past week, you’re aware by now of a well-meant but unfortunate incident that left some test pictures taken at a Chinese factory inside the iPhone that was being tested. Nothing even closely provocative as Paris Hilton’s drunk pictures; the 3 images are those of a female Chinese worker, a girl with a smiling face that gestures the V-sign towards the camera.<\/p>\n

One lucky iPhone buyer then announced his find on the Mac Rumors<\/a><\/strong> forum and the news made it around the world in 80 minutes, being shared among thousands of Internet geeks, who aptly dubbed the worker “iPhone girl<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

I think that this incident is a good example of how viral an image or piece of news can become in today’s society. Perhaps, Apple should take advantage of this incident and reward the young worker for her friendly demeanor by using her in an advertising campaign. After all, she wasn’t frowning or displaying the wrong number of fingers on the camera.<\/p>\n

I decided to have a little fun with the incident and created a couple of Apple spoof ads from the two distinct photos; you can preview them below and click on them for a bigger version!
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