“China’s Xinhua news agency published a story Tuesday that shows just how deeply Apple’s iPads and iPhones have become a part of Chinese culture,” Doug Tsuruoka reports for Investor’s Business Daily.
“The official state media group says some Chinese are leaving paper replicas of Apple iPads and iPhones as offerings at the graves of deceased ancestors and friends, to coincide with the April 4 start of the Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day,” Tsuruoka reports. “The centuries-old observance mourns the death of ancestors or loved ones.”
Tsuruoka reports, “It’s customary to tidy-up grave sites and burn offerings like gifts or food at this time, in the belief that they can be enjoyed by the dead in the afterlife. As in other cultures, the Chinese don’t necessarily burn real objects as offerings.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacHeadB” for the heads up.]
It goes to show that indeed Steve Jobs literally changed the 21th century !!!
…AND the 20th!
When everyone’s using Android in hell, well, you just want to be different don’t you?
In hell, Android is the default option.
Options? They have options in hell?
Yes, you can choose from Android, Playbook or a beta version of a Win8 Tablet.
Sounds like hell. So I suppose a paper vagina is out of the question.
That depends. Perhaps Gov. Ultrasound can provide feedback on that.
Liberals create Hell on Earth!
When I go… My iPad’s coming with me!!!!
None of that burnt offerings, sorry.
Im sure someone, somehow, will put a negative spin on this 😉
Just eliminate the words “paper” and “to honor of the the dead” from the headline.
China also has a thriving trade in dead women, apparently.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2012/04/chinas-qingming-festival