Apple has confirmed that they hired AZN teens + tweens to craft their iPods. Unfortunately, they only had 15 teen workers on the books, but the company probably could have had better margins for last quarter if the had paid teen workers with iPhones and iPod touches pre-loaded with ‘App Store’ gift certificates.

I am not sure if this is a ‘bad thing’, since teens love to get summer jobs in America. I feel like tons of teens would love the opportunity to make iPods + iPhones.

Basic information:

Parts of your iPod or iPhone could have been manufactured by a child.

At least eleven 15-year-old kids were working in three factories that supply Apple, according to the Telegraph.

Apple, which has factories in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, the Czech Republic, the United States, Taiwan and Singapore, would not release information about the specific factories using child labor. It did, however, say that it no longer employs children in its factories.

Do yall respect Apple for employing children? Do yall feel sad that the hands of children were used 2 make iPods instead of playing with them / sexting with them?

Should I get a vintage Macbook Air or an iPad?

Do yall think that Apple ‘enslaves’ people when they work at an Apple Store?  What’s the difference between labor, child labor, slavery, and indentured servitude?

Should we make more children work if they aren’t going to do anything productive within society when they grow up?
Should we organize some sort of ‘protest’ outside of an Apple Store?
Should we pay American teens to make iPods instead of AZN / Pacific Islander teens?

“Work will set yall free.”

Dear Mom,
I h8 how u do not ‘get’ me 1 bit. U need 2 pay attention 2 me so that u don’t end up looking like a dumbass shitface who ‘doesn’t care about her son’ when u try to do something nice 4 me. Recently, u went to a local Best Buy to get me a meaningful gift to go with last Christmas’s Macbook stocking stuffer. U decided 2 get me an iPod touch.

First of all… I already have an iPhone. Totally don’t need an iPod touch. s00 dumb. U srsly should NOT be alive. U need 2 read more actual publications on the internet instead of reading the local paper from 2 years ago. U think ur smart because u ‘have a career’ but the shit u do is meaningless, and I would srsly slit my own throat and wrists if I had 2 do what u do every day. There’s more to ‘life’ than ur version of life–I wish u could see it my way so that you’d understand my most recent personal brand implementation.

I SRSLY JUST TOOK A BOTTLE OF SLEEPING PILLS I AM SO PISSED OFF AT LIFE. /////

N e ways, Just wanted 2 let u know that record players are the new iPods. Just a more ‘organic’ feeling when ur listening to music. Like ur closer to the artist. (I might also give up my iPhone and only use pay phones.)

I h8 the idea of
1) purchasing mp3s
2) being ’so portable’ just like every1 else
3) co-branding myself with white earbuds
4) having some ghey-metallic coloured iPod
5) being ’so connected’ with a wifi connection
6) the audio quality isn’t authentic
7) Apple is a BULL SHIT MONOPOLY
8) The recent Apple product recall because Steve Jobs’s disease ‘contaminated’ a bunch of product lines

Record players are the future bc U have to make a decision about ‘where u want to be’ and make sure that your apartment/room/space is extra meaningful. It’s also more difficult to ‘collect vinyls’ than it is to collect mp3s, so it makes you ‘love music’ more that typical people.

I wish u’d realize how ‘out’ iPods are. They are for high schoolers and overgrown tweens. Do u really think I look like this guy?

[Photo via Easy Fashion]

/// h8 the shit out of u, mom
/// we used to be ‘bros’ right after dad ‘left us’
/// but now I am finally seeing
/// that I was the 1 worth leaving.

Love,
your altSon

PS: can u leave me some pizza money 4 the weekend?

UR A MAC
AND I SHOOT STUFF OUT OF MY BUTT/AM AN ARTIST

In the middle of the PC vs Mac war, will Mac respond by making a viral snuff film? Love ya Steve Jobs! Just tryin 2 help u find a way to market 2 trendsetting audiences.

Am I still edgy if I post the Diesel SFW Porn vid even though it’s 100 blog years old?
After a meme ‘goes viral’, don’t u feel a lil sad that it didn’t ‘live 4ever.’

When r designers going 2 create sustainable memes?

THERE’S MORE 2 LIFE THAN GOING VIRAL /////////////
(Barry Obama will learn this soon.)

Which 1 will get me ‘m0re fuckt up’?

Should I have a certain song playing when I ’sniff it’ 4 the first time?

Just trying to find myself/fit in with a new group of Alt4Life friends that I made.

Should I stay away from drugs?  Help.

Is this some new Apple initiative to appeal to the most authentic people on the planet? Concerts are kind of lame when u have to listen to music inbetween sets, because the sound board guy is usually some bro who was born before 1976, and he is eager to ‘impress u with his taste/appreciate for the past.’ So maybe we should all start bringing iPods to shows. I’m not rlly sure–I’m just a blogger. But I do know that 1 time my iPod came in handy one time when I used the GPS system on my iPod shuffle.

It would be nice if you took ur earbuds out when the band was playing, though. I know that in high school and college classrooms across the country, kids are trying to listen 2 music instead of listening 2 their teacher. Kinda weird. Makes me think that they don’t even appreciate music–they are only concerned with how their personal brand looks since they have an iPod. I guess that’s life, tho. I was probably that way with digipets/pogs when I was a lilmainstreamAlt.

Is Apple Vs. Microsoft the initial battle that leads into the ElectroWar? Worried, yall.

I just bought my iPod nano a few months ago because of the new emerging artist featured in the commercial called ‘The Feists.’ Even though the song ‘wasn’t THAT good’, it was a commercial that turned her into an altMainstream superstar.

Her crossbranding with a technological product enabled every1 to feel progressive by enjoying her/the small iPod nano.

LET US NEVER FORGET THE ‘FEIST-SIZED’ IPOD NANO MODEL.
LET US ALL ADMIT THAT ‘1-2-3-4′ WASN’T EVEN A VERY GOOD SONG.
Srsly. It reminds me of ‘girls who dress alt but don’t have any personality’ would listen to/rave about/put into their facebook+myspace profile.

It’s good to know that iPod does a good job of lumping ‘obscurer alternative artists’ and ‘artists who were originally marketed as being alternative but have since gained a mainstream appeal’ into their [BUZZWORTHY] commercials.

Is it deceptive advertising that the new Nanos begin to ‘cum’ in the final 10 seconds of the commercial?

I think Apple would tell you that more ‘variety’ is better when it comes to colour choices. However, according to the ‘Pinkifying a Product Makes Your Product Less Authentic’ theory, Apple might be weakening it’s brand by enabling empty females to ‘feel like their pink iPod truly represents them’ while they work out at the gym.

It’s sort of like when ur fave sports team makes various coloured jerseys for women (pink) or St. Patrick’s Day (green), and u wish they could just ’stay authentic’ instead of trying s00 hard 2 sell jerseys.

BUT SRSLY…
Does n e 1 miss the bulkiness/minimalist interface of the early iPods? the ‘mini’ was s00 bulky!

I read in a tumblr that minimalist, ‘no bullshit’ designs+interfaces are gonna be big after a disease wipes out half of the Eastern world in 2k10.

This has been part of Mainstream=Alt (an eArt Gallery presented by the popular weblog HIPSTER RUNOFF).

Other tat options for DJs include

• turntables on your chest
• ableton setup on your back
• Serato on your arm
• your favourite record on your lower back
• ‘angel wings’ on your back to represent that u r a fallen Angel DJ

I am a normal person, so I have considered getting a simple iPod tattied on to me, complete with earbuds that extend into my ears. Not sure what type of iPod I’m going to get tattied on to me. Shuffle, nano, or iPod touch, or iPhone nano-shuff?

[Photo via HotChixWithDBaggies]

I also eat food, so I am thinking of getting some sort of item off the Chili’s menu tattied on to me. I might just get symmetrical hip tattoos of the Chili’s chili logo on my hips.

Send ur CHILI’s pics.

Go to Feist’s website.
http://www.listentofeist.com/

This website is pretty hilarious. It seems like it should be a website that turned up when you googled your middle school teacher’s name, and found out that she is an unsuccessful singer-song writer. Maybe it’s just something about the colour scheme that makes it look like a default template in a ‘Make My First Webpage’ type of program.

I remember back at the beginning of Feist Explosion 2k7, she shut down listentofeist.com because it didn’t represent her well. I wonder what the deal is now.

Also factor in the whole ‘Feist’ iPod Nano phenomenon, and it’s fair to say that Apple has done a pretty decent job of letting mainstreamers know what should be on their iPod.

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