A Chinese factory worker has become an online celebrity after a picture of her smiling and giving a peace sign to a co-worker testing an Apple iPhone remained on the phone that was sold to a man in the UK.
Pictures of the unidentified, woman were posted on the Apple discussion Web site MacRumours.com by a person using the name “markm49uk” and quickly spread to other sites.
“Not sure if this is or is not the ‘norm’ but I just received my brand new iPhone here in the UK and once it had been activated on iTunes I found that the home screen already had a photo set against it!!!!” he wrote.
Some visitors to the site raised concern about the woman possibly losing her job and others joked they were returning their iPhones because they did not come with a loaded photo.
A spokesman for Foxconn, which assembles the phone for Apple told the AFP,” Small mistakes are unavoidable,” and said he would call this a “beautiful mistake.” The spokesman said the woman had anxiety about her over night fame after her photo appeared on Web sites and newspapers and that her employers have told her that her job is safe.
One person wrote in a post,” It would be great for every Chinese worker who makes your iPhones to take a snap of herself or her factory friends … a hello from a person you would never otherwise meet.”
