Sometime last week, a University of Ottawa student wound up needing to replace her iPhone. Someone decided she didn’t really need the one she had, so offered–rather forcefully–to take it off her hands. Two things make it headline worthy, according to 1310 news–one of which is untrue. The girl in question was blind–and, if it’s who I’m thinking of, I actually used to know her, and less accurately, the iPhone was incorrectly labeled as being specially designed for her with text to speech software in place. As much as I disagree with apple on several hundred levels, I do have to say they’ve at least done that right–the same text to speech software is available in every iPhone sold, at least in the last year or so. This particular one just so happened to have it enabled. That’s what made it extremely easy, once they decided to do it, for three Rogers employees to replace the phone. Had the technology she was using been specially designed for her use, the story probably wouldn’t have had the ending it did. Now if every news article could end kinda like these ones here, special needs included or otherwise.
Related: If this person’s the same one I’m thinking of, I kinda wondered what happened to her. Now, I know. Thanks, 1310, for that if nothing else.
3 responses to “Attention 1310 news: there is nothing “special” about Victoria’s stolen iPhone.”
Yep, it’s the girl you are thinking of. There was a video of her online at the ottawa citizen. You could never be too careful out there but it is just a damn iPhone.
It’s a special iPhone, remember. They made it speak just for her. *snort*
Well there’s an update to the story: https://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/youths+arrested+iPhone+theft/3929007/story.html