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Balloonimals - the 3D rendering that turns your iPhone into a spittoon

Warranty trasher

Katie Wun


First iPhones suffered from draining batteries. Now it's draining saliva

I wish I was still friends with Bill Gates. He’d have loved this iPhone story.

A man takes his iPhone back to the shop and claims it’s not working properly. He describes the symptoms. The man in the shop nods his head, and agrees to take the handset in for an examination.
A few days later he gets a call.
Shop man: “We think your circuitry has been eroded. Have you taken your iPhone out in the rain? Or dropped it in a puddle?”
Customer: “No, absolutely not. The only time I let it out of my site is when I let my son play Balloonimals.”
Suddenly, the man from the shop sounded horrified. “You play balloonimals? Good grief. So all that fluid we drained out your phone was saliva? Sorry mate, you just spat on your warranty.”
Balloonimals is an iPhone game where kids inflate shapes, by blowing into the iPhone’s microphone. Great fun. But by the time these 3D renderings have taken shape, your handset is fuller than a wild west spittoon.
The next stage doesn’t help. You’re supposed to shake the iPhone, to make the animals come to life.
Meanwhile, you’re sentencing your iPhone’s circuitry to death. And your insurance is void.
So, Balloonimals. It’s a great present to give to a kid whose parents you don’t really like.

 

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