YNOT – So much for Apple co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs’ vow to keep adult content off the iPhone.An Ann Arbor, Mich., woman claims one of the first things she found on a supposedly new iPhone was five pornographic videos.
Rhonda Lee told Detroit’s Local 4 News she bought the phone at a third-party Sprint retail store in a local mall. Although the phone’s box had been opened, all of the components remained in their original packaging. Lee was “disgusted and mortified” to find the five 11- to 12-minute videos on the device while she was showing it off to friends and coworkers.
“I’m so, so embarrassed, you couldn’t imagine…,” she told Local 4 News. “I mean, for you to be going through your phone and you have friends and you’re going through your phone and all of a sudden porn shows up. I mean so, so upset.”
Adding insult to injury, employees at the store denied the phone had been “previously owned” when she tried to return it. They declined her attempt to return the device. Eventually, Sprint’s corporate headquarters sent her to another mall to trade in the phone.
“What upsets me, I keep thinking about the what-ifs, not just being me, but what if somebody bought it for it their kid?” Lee asked on-camera. “I have a lot of friends that are religious. What if it was given to them as a gift?”
The store that sold the phone apologized.
“We apologize that the customer had this experience,” a spokesman told the television news reporter. “We strive to offer our customers the best service and experience, and this is not in line with our business policies or those of our partner, Sprint. We are re-educating our sales associates to ensure this does not happen again.”
