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Fake Apple Products Being Offered To Chinese Dead During Annual Ritual
By Li Le, Producer, NBC News
BEIJING -- During China’s annual Qingming Festival, also known as “Tomb Sweeping Day,” people repair and clean the graves of dead relatives as part of an ancient custom to ensure a peaceful afterlife.
Some cemeteries are attaching QR codes to gravestones to allow mourners to view a virtual obituary. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
They also leave offerings of food, fake money, liquor and now, in a sign of the times, cardboard representations of popular Apple products – despite scathing criticism of the technology giant recently by China’s state-run media for its "arrogance" for having just a one-year warranty for Chinese consumers.
The onslaught on CCTV to the People's Daily newspaper grew to such a fever pitch that Apple CEO Tim Cook offered an apology Monday and announced that the company would change its policy.
But the hubbub hasn’t dampened interest in offering mock Apple products to relatives for them to enjoy in the afterlife.
http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/05/17603719-heaven-sent-fake-apple-products-offered-to-chinese-ancestors?lite=
BEIJING -- During China’s annual Qingming Festival, also known as “Tomb Sweeping Day,” people repair and clean the graves of dead relatives as part of an ancient custom to ensure a peaceful afterlife.
Some cemeteries are attaching QR codes to gravestones to allow mourners to view a virtual obituary. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
They also leave offerings of food, fake money, liquor and now, in a sign of the times, cardboard representations of popular Apple products – despite scathing criticism of the technology giant recently by China’s state-run media for its "arrogance" for having just a one-year warranty for Chinese consumers.
The onslaught on CCTV to the People's Daily newspaper grew to such a fever pitch that Apple CEO Tim Cook offered an apology Monday and announced that the company would change its policy.
But the hubbub hasn’t dampened interest in offering mock Apple products to relatives for them to enjoy in the afterlife.
http://behindthewall.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/05/17603719-heaven-sent-fake-apple-products-offered-to-chinese-ancestors?lite=
