Fun story this morning on the iPhone girl. Whoa, there's some google bait. AP has picked it up and so it's all over the place - unfortunately with the identical wording everywhere. Amazing how news outlets don't do any work. Just pay AP the fees and stick the stories directly into your paper/website etc.
Anyway, someone at a factory takes a pic of a girl across from them and it doesn't get erased from the phone before it's sold. A guy in England buys the phone and shares it.
The best response I saw is that a bunch of people wish they had a pic of a cute Asian factory worker on her phone. It's only a matter of time before they identify her (she's asked her company not to divulge her name).
Beyond the appeal of a story about a cute girl, I'm interested in the reactions to this, as evaluated by looking at the comments on the macRumors site or elsewhere. First, people speculate that she would be fired hy the heartless Chinese company. (Hello? She's sitting at a workstation on the far side of the bench. She didn't take a picture, it's someone else operating the camera feature). Then there is the huge need to know who she is. Even to the point of someone standing outside the factory trying to identify her among shift changes.
The next thing to expect is that her life is now hugely changed. She will become a brief huge celebrity - bigger even if the story gets further into mainstream press. And lets face it, iPhone + cute + China: it's got all the hallmarks of a media feeding frenzy.
Anyway - a brief digression but an interesting insight into pop-culture, random fame and emerging consumer electronics.
Researchinator now goes off to check his AAPL share price...
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