Phone Story : An iPhone educational game. Now banned from the AppStore

[silmeria1984]

I do not use smartphones and use a very restricted part of social websites like Facebook etc at recent days. Not because that I cannot afford them, but I really do not have much time to grind into them while I noticed those students in college asides me text all the way through the lecture and demos our professors provided TWICE in class and eventually fail the class and retake it, then goes back into a circle; or end up receiving a C minors.

Stop kill the time that we have, cause we have little

[RexGospel]

打倒苹果 抵制iPhone

[linuslillen01]

The Anvil of irony: released on smartphone.

[kabuCee]

Now I feel completely sorry to use that phone

[BradiKal61]

@ groomdoggi- lighten up Francis!

[robelicit]

OK :: Let's SETTLE THIS. Like many geeks, i used to work in S.Valley (CG & 3d production, etc);

I'd heard info from the inside of the industry-- BUT u can get the scoop EASILY:: read the inside-story

on Job$ & B!llyGates & the crap they pulled

on various folks:

The BOOK : "Fire in the Valley" --Also a movie based on the book, called "Pirates of Silicon Valley."

>>BOTH Job$ & Gates were..are schmvcks BUT the difference is that

Jobs was abusive

on a personal-level to friends, even his wife.

[superfroman]

Is this same mineral found in video game handhelds like the DS, PSP, 3DS, and PS Vita?

[xXDoublexAceXx]

how come this is the first im hearing of this?

i just recently got my first smartphone for christmas,

if i saw this before i wouldnt have bought it in the first place...

[DieInFire]

now I feel guilty of having an iphone

[AegisOrnus]

@DieInFire I think you should feel guilty if you go through iphones and similar products willy-nilly. If you got the product because it serves a practical use for you, then be grateful and continue to utilize it. The ones who should feel guilty are the ones who buy the product just because of a brand-name and they always have to be on the up and up - "Today's envy is tomorrow's trash." If you want to feel better then just spread the word. The more people know, the better off everyone is.

[cero2515]

@AegisOrnus no the people who know what's happening and refuse to take action to stop it should feel guilty not people who happen to like a brand and be unaware it has bad beginnings.

[AegisOrnus]

@cero2515 Right, because there's nothing wrong with rampant comsumerism in the first place. Really, everyone has a part in the blame, the consumer is no exception.

[OishiiApps]

... Ok, even at the height of the controversy, Foxconn's suicide rates were lower than the USA. And yes, even then, Foxconn was the BEST factory to work at in China, with the highest rating in regards to human rights. Furthermore, since then Foxconn raised their employees' wages (thanks in part due to Apple's pushing) by 70% in 2009, and then in 2010 they raised the wages another 30%. That's over 150% salary increase in 2 years to what was already the best factory to work at in China.

[T0PSLAYER117]

@OishiiApps Their wages were increased.... as was their rent. You realize Foxconn is using the same tactics as the USA share croppers, right? The people are sucked in, payed only enough money to pay for rent, food and supplies and then expected to continue working under those conditions until they die. It's a cheap trick that unfortunately China has not banned yet. I can only wonder why. (sarcasm)

[chronius9]

Actually I laughed at the scene where you cached dropping Chinese workers. It was so funny. What bothers me why Apple for such huge price makes it's hardware in one of the worst chinese hardware manufacturer.

And part about mines: there is one problem: those mines are used not only in Apple products,these minerals are needed everywhere.

[GOOB3000]

There was no reason for Apple to ban this. W*nkers!!!!

[AlexFili]

Educational? I don't know about that. This game seems designed to shock people. If you remove the main theme of the game and shocking imagery, you're left with a shallow minigame collection. While I understand that workers have rights and we need to respect who makes the phones... games like this are not going to do anything to help fix the problem. You'll be lucky if 0.01% of the people who try or hear of this game donate. That's not the way the world works.

[MeestaBojangles]

@AlexFili You're wrong, raising awareness is the first step to fix a problem, and that's what this company did.

[mattias1234]

That is the truth about mobile phones and their sets a manufactured. we ought Report these barbarians to the UN to injury to persons are not slaves. Apple & motorolla and much more.

[o0Testimony0o]

@mattias1234 It would be so much easier if corporations didn't own the UN.

What are we surprised about, though? You can't be on the side of money and on the side of love and life at the same time. Most (all?) corporations and governments in today's world are on money's side.

Incidentally, the Bible predicted that all this would happen. 2 Tim chapter 3, verses 1-5. And 2 Tim 4: 3-4. Just sayin'.

(You can check them out at biblegateway if you're curious. ^ - ^)

[BradiKal61]

Apple's banning the app just reinforces its BIG BROTHER attitude. I guess when you're a cult you can get away with stuff like that.

[groomdoggi]

@BradiKal61 Apple is neither a cult nor Big Brother. It's a commercial business. It's only purpose is to make money. Apparently you've chosen to build some kind of moral construct around this brand, and now it surprises you that it won't promote ideas that will discourage people from buying its product. Rather than judge the Apple brand--or any other brand! why don't you exercise your intellect to choose non profit organizations to open your eyes about what's influencing you.

[roboticsun]

sad things are the majority of iPhone users wont even care about those stuff, claim those are not facts and continue to buy it when new model is released.

[BaroqueWorksz]

As a game it sucks, and its content is nothing more than a gathering of things we have already read in the news, and it is news that hasn't been confirmed with actual facts, so the games educational value is equal to none. Other than that it displays a very simplistic view of how things work in this world, the game is rubbish, no wonder apple banned it, it deserve to be banned! if the game intent was to protest for human rights and environmental issues, then it has failed badly.

[sirmidor]

@BaroqueWorksz

we both know there are plenty of people who don't know this yet. also, a game is educational if you can learn from it. that doesn't include the possibility of the subject already knowing it, so yes, it IS educational.

what's wrong about simplistic. are there any softening conditions to cover slave labor and suicides?

[melvinthedeathless]

@BaroqueWorksz

Mainstream consumers are incredibly ignorant and incredibly wilful about the scenes that goes on behind consumerism, their view of the world is incredibly simplistic.... I can say this with utmost certainty cuz i used to work in the retail industry b4.

[unixtippse]

Good thing that Android phones don't need coltan, aren't produced in china and have a well-defined recycling process. I'll definitly get rid of my iPhone in favor of an Android phone.

[melvinthedeathless]

@unixtippse

what makes u think that its' applicable to iphone only? Nowhere in the vid was iphone even mentioned once. This game targets the entire industry, not just apple alone.... >_>

ppl get so uppity when their "favorite" brand is implied in some less-than-honorable scheme; Consumerism is the new religion. Btw u can relax, congo accounts for 10% of the world's coltan production, a fact that's left out in the game... It's right on about the other aspects though, esp the recycling bit.

[gabl8a89]

Post this video on your facebook guys! Cool the world down from "apple fever"

[programmusic]

It's Face from Nick Jr!

[melvinthedeathless]

Great vid but it won't change anything...

[bluemanor]

Apple: Posterboy of the Evil Corporation

[DartLuke]

2:11-Bart Simpson???

[thomasmc14]

Who didn't already know this? Ross Kemp went to the Democratic Republic of Congo and asked them how much they sold it for and then explained how we are all complicit in this.

[koz]

@thomasmc14 I didn't. I don't tend to watch Ross Kemp shows. But that's interesting info ;) I may dig up a copy of the show. Ta.

[DigitalAgeGrunt]

The ugly face of consumerism, et tu Apple?

[adriangmarin]

la dura realidad

[TheTriptamineDream]

This is a really well done video.

[etronoid]

crackit and share it!