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24

Apple Has A Secret Unboxing Room To Test Product Packaging

parislemon:

This doesn’t surprise me at all. What does surprise me is that no other consumer electronic company puts the care into packaging that Apple does.

By making each and every product a joy to open, Apple sets the tone for the product itself subconsciously in the user’s mind.

Compare this to the companies that put their products in the clear plastic anti-theft packaging. Not only do they take forever to open with a combination of scissors and ripping, I nearly slice at least one finger open every time. When I finally get the product out, part of me just wants to smash it against a wall — I’m that angry by the opening experience.

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13

Jan
12

300 Chinese Foxconn workers threaten suicide at Xbox plant

iheartchaos:

It’s been a while since there’s been any news coming out of a Foxconn plant in China. The last time was around this time last year, was about suicides at a factory that was pumping out iPads and iPhones before the company installed anti-suicide nets around the buildings. This time, 300 Foxconn employees went to the roof of a factory and threatened mass suicide if their pay demands weren’t met.

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Jan
06

“Freedom from distraction may in fact be the new, sought after bourgeois luxury. In… “The Joy of Quiet,” Pico Iyer says that the future of travel lies in “black hole resorts” where you pay exorbitant amounts for remote beautiful rooms that are offline. The principle is that freedom from the Internet is so rare and exotic and impossible that it is becoming a commodity: It’s not iPhones or iPads we have to worry about buying, but peace from them. Freedom, then, is a poor man’s fabulous hotel room on a cliff on a beach without wireless.”

Why is the Freedom app so popular?  (via courtenaybird)

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