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<td>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:44:55 +0200 (CEST)</td>
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<td>The Yes Lab <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:donotreply@yeslab.org"><donotreply@yeslab.org></a></td>
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<title>iPhone App About Apple's Rotten Supply Chain Gets Past
Censors</title>
<strong>iPhone App About Apple's Rotten Supply Chain Gets Past
Censors</strong>
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This and upcoming Yes Lab projects no hoax
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Contact: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:info@molleindustria.it">info@molleindustria.it</a>,
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:michael.pineschi@gmail.com">michael.pineschi@gmail.com</a></blockquote>
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To the great surprise of its creators, a funny new iPhone game
critical of Apple's human rights record was accepted by the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/phone-story/id462806536?ls=1&mt=8">iTunes</a>
store and is being released today. The app, called <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.phonestory.org/">Phone
Story</a>, teaches players about abuses in the life-cycle of the
iPhone by putting them in the manufacturers' shoes. To win,
players must enslave children in Congolese mines, catch suicidal
workers jumping out of Chinese assembly plant windows, and
conscript the poorest of the world's poor to dismantle toxic
e-waste resulting from obsolete phones. </p>
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The seriously funny new game will sell for 99 cents on <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/phone-story/id462806536?ls=1&mt=8">iTunes</a>;
all proceeds will go to organizations fighting to stop the horrors
that smartphone production causes. Read more about Phone Story <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="#below">below</a>. But first, a
word from Phone Story's sponsors.
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" name="below"></a><strong>So back to
those phones....</strong>
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<p>
Would you like to force an African child to mine for precious
metals at gunpoint? "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.phonestory.org/">Phone Story</a>," a new iPhone
app produced by Molleindustria, puts the player in the unsavory
shoes of a smartphone executive. Each level in the game explores a
different real-life problem in the consumer electronics life
cycle: slavery and abuse in Coltan mines, suicide-inducing
manufacturing plants, and health-destroying e-waste processing are
reduced to a cute, low-res aesthetic driven by simple, addictive
game play.
The game is available in the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/phone-story/id462806536?ls=1&mt=8">iTunes
store</a> for 99 cents.
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"We wanted to get this story into the hands of consumers, on the
shiny devices we love to use but are causing this depraved,
destructive cycle," said game developers Paolo Pedercini and
Michael Pineschi.
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The site provides links to organizations with campaigns to hold
phone makers accountable for their horrors, and 100% of proceeds
go directly to such organizations.
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Apple has a well-documented and controversial history of keeping
apps that they don't agree with out of the hands of consumers, so
it came as a big surprise to the creators when the iPhone store
accepted this one. "If this simply slipped under their radar, we
can't wait to see how they respond," said Pedercini. "If it's
creative enough, we might have to build a whole other level."
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