{"id":591,"date":"2008-08-22T16:41:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T16:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/razorianfly.wordpress.com\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2008-09-09T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T08:02:46","slug":"uk-iphone-user-whos-this-omg-its-an-iphone-production-line-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/uk-iphone-user-whos-this-omg-its-an-iphone-production-line-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"UK iPhone User: &#8220;Who&#8217;s this? &#8211; OMG, it&#8217;s an iPhone Production Line Worker!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/att.macrumors.com\/attachment.php?attachmentid=131040&amp;d=1219301308\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">iPhone Production-Line Worker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While we recently heard iPhone owners were opening their newly-bought, boxed iPhone&#8217;s to find numerous photos of iPhone 3G&#8217;s on a production line, no-one knew what to make of the claims.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, <strong>markm49uk<\/strong> a fairly new Mac Rumors member posted three photos claiming, on opening his iPhone 3G, to his utter surprise, three photos depicted the action&#8217;s of what appeared to be an iPhone 3G factory worker &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showpost.php?p=6076379&amp;postcount=1\">markm49uk<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8220;Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if this is or is not the &#8216;norm&#8217; 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 (the screen you can personalise with a photo) already had a photo set against it !!!!<\/p>\n<p>It would appear that someone on the production line was having a bit of fun<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to say, the images look legit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/att.macrumors.com\/attachment.php?attachmentid=131040&amp;d=1219301308\">Photo 001<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/att.macrumors.com\/attachment.php?attachmentid=131041&amp;d=1219301308\">Photo 002<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/att.macrumors.com\/attachment.php?attachmentid=131042&amp;d=1219301408\">Photo 003<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Did someone just get bored with the long shifts on the production line? &#8211; Or presumably, testing the iPhone&#8217;s camera components work, before shipping the device, is all part of Apple&#8217;s quality control process &#8211; Except this time, someone forgot to delete the photos, after testing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say, the employee(s) involved may have lost their job due to this action. Apple are very stringent of production information leaving the factory walls. I think you&#8217;ll agree though, it is pretty awesome to see inside one of the factories.<\/p>\n<p>View the original discussion thread: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showthread.php?t=547777\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>R-Fly<\/p>\n<hr size=\"10\" \/>\n<hr size=\"4\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we recently heard iPhone owners were opening their newly-bought, boxed iPhone&#8217;s to find numerous photos of iPhone 3G&#8217;s on a production line, no-one knew what to make of the claims. Last Wednesday, markm49uk a fairly new Mac Rumors member posted three photos claiming, on opening his iPhone 3G, to his utter surprise, three photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[83,4,261,3501,332,342,637],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone","tag-3g","tag-apple","tag-exclusive","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-3g-photos","tag-iphone-worker","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}