Step 1: Strap 94 iPhones to your body and try to smuggle them into China.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
iMessage Discriminates
I recently switched from an iPhone to Android, and discovered shortly thereafter that my phone number was still associated with iMessage, meaning that any time someone with an iPhone tried texting me, I’d receive nothing, and they’d get a “Delivered” receipt in their Messages app as though everything were working as expected. (source)
I’d say at least once a week for quite a number of months now I’ve come into issues texting friends with iPhones. One of us will inevitably have issues with text messages, and resort to another form of chat. I had been blaming it on the carriers, and having too many messaging apps on my phone. (Seriously, 2014 instant messaging is about as bad as 1998) Here’s hoping apple fixes this soon.
“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.”
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
– Jared Bernstein