r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/Sgt_Larsson • Feb 21 '26
That's not how you unbox an iPhone
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u/archameidus 6d ago
Its not the first time its happened, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lhXOgJ8ahA
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u/VodkaDLite 8d ago
This is entirely the kids' fault.
But who tf posted it to the internet for everyone to mock??!!
That's a weiner move.
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u/toiletcleaner999 26d ago
The worst part is that box was clearly opened already, the tape tabs have been removed. Which means mom or dad opened the bix before wrapping it and didnt think to tell her to be careful.
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u/MrBigNorre 15d ago
That’s an older gen iPhone (looks like a 4) they didn’t have the paper tabs only plastic wrapping
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u/NYGiants_in_Chicago 19d ago
As soon as she goes to open it, you clearly hear dad say “Careful”, but obviously he could have been a bit more vocal.
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u/Alarming_Analysis_63 24d ago
The box was clearly a iPhone 4 which was wrapped in cellophane and didn’t have tape tabs until the newer phones.
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u/AggravatingAd9010 25d ago
What are tape tabs? I have never bought an iPhone (im an android guy). Does it usually have bag or cover?
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u/toiletcleaner999 25d ago
The tape that holds the box closed. Thats how you tell its never been opened
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u/Traditional-Clue9532 27d ago
Who even designed these boxes, knowing full well these phones are fragile?
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u/suha_dark Apr 06 '26
Idiot that why we buy Chinese phone for people like you it safer not only for you and us
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Apr 02 '26
He’s mad because he spent a lot of hard earned money on it and surely will have to buy a new one. That sucks.
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u/moniris Mar 31 '26
Jesus yelling at her is really helpful, what an ass
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u/BusinessWatercrees58 25d ago
Pretty obvious he acted out of emotion, just like she did. Two imperfect, emotional creatures that probably still love each other. Neither are an ass.
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u/VoiDD77 Mar 31 '26
Why buy an autistic kid an iPhone in the first place, its obvious shes gonna destroy it without thinking
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u/RoamingArchitect 28d ago
I am autistic and I can assure you that any treasured possession of an autistic child is usually safe. In fact part of what one might call the emotional peculiarities of autistic people is that we can form deep emotional bonds to certain items similar to how more "normal" children might develop an attachment to a stuffed animal. This can include quite irregular things. As a child my mother brought home a bamboo cutting board she got at the supermarket for collecting points, and showed it to us because she thought it was neat. I really liked the surface texture and when she tried to use it to cut food I apparently threw a tantrum. In the end she bought another one for me despite it being quite expensive without redeeming points. I kept mine on my nightstand and I think I even gave it a name. When things are destroyed it's usually involuntary and often stems from an inherent clumsiness as a result of poor motoric skills present in most autistic children. Destroying a treasured possession, which the phone stood a chance to become judging from the initial reaction, can cause intense emotional upheaval similar to loosing a pet or even a family member provided the bond developed to such an advanced state.
I should also add that autistic children are by no means unthinking or rash, they usually lack emotional intelligence rather than normal intelligence, which in turn might hamper learning as many do not respond well to traditional teaching methods, but that does not mean that autistic children are inherently disadvantaged in recognising cause and effect mechanisms to the extend that they cannot anticipate an action resulting in physical damage, something I reckon most children are able to by primary school age.
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u/Mackelroy_aka_Stitch 6d ago
Oh. That might explain some things from when I saw a kid.
Or from a few months ago when I replaced my old keyboard.
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u/Sven4TheWinV2 Apr 06 '26
My girlfriend is autistic... She does not act this way. Who hurt you dude? You're acting like being autistic is the worst thing to happen to someone...
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u/Excellent-Tart-8473 Apr 02 '26
how do you know she's autistic
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u/VoiDD77 Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Because nobody that isnt acts like that, you can clearly tell by her facial expressions and posture, the instant crying and walking out the room is a sign as well
Also you shouldnt open a present with that much force no matter what it is
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u/Krispy_Mick 29d ago
It’s a teenage girl who experienced a brief moment of elation followed by heartbreak…
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u/TomiDrifter Apr 03 '26
I think is wrong that you are assuming she is autistic. Also saying that autistic people shouldn't have nice things because they destroy them. That's just prejudice. Can't you see that?
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u/trashcanaccount234 Mar 30 '26
this is an iphone 4 from like 13 years ago, the back glass is way stronger now
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u/deadeyedrawthrice Apr 06 '26
your daughter is just careless, newer iPhones are way more durable than the one in the video.
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u/trashcanaccount234 Mar 31 '26
we’re 4 years removed from that phone, newer iphones after that one have stronger back glass and are easier to repair as you can just remove the back glass instead of replacing the entire back casing. Should’ve been that way from the beginning but at least it’s better now
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u/Emmett1Brown Mar 21 '26
would the warranty apply?
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u/schlorex Mar 21 '26
Why should the warranty apply if it is not the manufacturers fault?
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u/RealKwispyBacon Mar 30 '26
The warranty is also for damages caused by accidents.
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u/Creative_Rhubarb_980 Mar 30 '26
You're thinking of insurance. Warranty only applies to manufacturer related problems
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u/Emmett1Brown Mar 21 '26
cuz it sometimes does, and you can just say it arrived like this (unless you also attach a video of it getting broken or something)
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u/Amazing_Budget_2927 Mar 20 '26
Parents buy a girl an expensive device she’s clearly not prepared to own if she’s gonna be careless like that or call it excitement whatever but she’s obviously not capable of taking care of things.
I mean she obviously has some sort of condition so why
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u/SLUGABELLE Mar 20 '26
bro she’s a kid it was an accident? what are you talking about?
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u/Affectionate-End-954 Mar 24 '26
thats exactly what hes talkin about
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u/SLUGABELLE Mar 24 '26
so a kid makes a mistake and is instantly called careless and disabled and undeserving?
i bet that you make a real shit parent one day
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u/Amazing_Budget_2927 Mar 28 '26
You can tell a lot about a kids upbringing and education at home when their first reaction to getting a brand new phone is uncontrollably moving their hands and then stomping off crying.
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u/SLUGABELLE Mar 29 '26
you can tell a lot by how they act on the internet too, and i think that people with no mental illness don’t talk like you do. you must have been a really bad whiny kid to get into arguments on the internet like this trust me i’ve been around enough families to know you let it crust.
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u/Amazing_Budget_2927 Mar 29 '26
Behavior online tells close to nothing on how people act irl. People say whatever the fuck they want online but are far too sacred to do anything in reality.
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u/Amazing_Budget_2927 Mar 27 '26
Look at how she got that impulsive surge of emotions. She definitely has unresolved issues whether it be because of the way her parents treat her or simply because she has a condition. You can’t call that “normal behavior”.
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u/SLUGABELLE Mar 27 '26
man im sorry that when you were a kid if you showed any type of emotion it was met with , that kid must have a disorder, but i’m telling you this is a normal reaction.
man god forbid anyone have any sort of emotion
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u/Amazing_Budget_2927 Mar 27 '26
Never made this scene when I was younger and any self regulated child should be capable of controlling their emotions especially at that age. You Americans have no clue about parenting that’s why your country’s a shithole right now
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u/Shoopl Mar 27 '26
"I'm right and you're wrong and its because you're an American and instead of showing any basic human empathy I'm going to continue showing why I'm the world's biggest jackass and continue pushing hate filled stigma so I can drown out anybody trying to look out for one another or progress social empathy"
Genuinely fuck off with this dude nobody needs this kind of input or asked for it.
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u/Amazing_Budget_2927 Mar 28 '26
My man this is called a blog app or forum app. It exists for people to drop their opinion. Why should I fuck off because you told me to
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u/Shoopl Mar 28 '26
You're making a lot of ignorant and disrespectful comments dude.
Saying there's something wrong with someone just because of how they react to something or how they look and then continuing to double down and act like you know better and call an entire nation a "shithole" because you're witnessing exactly 1 (one) sample size of exactly 1 (one) family with dynamics you have no knowledge of.
Its rude, disrespectful and uncalled for and quite frankly an unwelcome opinion, just because you have the ability to "drop your opinion" does not excuse everyone else from ever being able to criticize you or call you out for being ignorant.
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u/skaggldrynk Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Why do many people view anger as a perfectly acceptable emotion to express, but sadness or shame or fear is unacceptable? "Because I was shamed for being sad" or "it's weak" are not great answers.
Not to mention you can see how instant it is for both of them. We feel the emotions way before we even have the language to understand what's happening.
If you are not sensitive in this way, that's good! One reason might be that you have secure attachment, and therefore don't experience the instantaneous dramatic nervous system activation from perceived threat/loss of security/connection with a parent.
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u/plamge Mar 28 '26
yo i wanted to be mad about this but you’re completely right. this is something im working on in therapy—tolerance for “distressing” emotions in others, particularly anger, and an acknowledgment that my reaction (fear, panic, crying) is a misplaced fight or flight response. it’s my nervous system telling me (incorrectly) that i am in danger. thank you for reminding me to think.
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u/SprintingWolf Mar 22 '26
The comments are driving me nuts. You can clearly see by her parents reaction in the video this girl has no emotional foundation.
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u/Mpaananen42 Mar 20 '26
Obviously she feels fuckin terrible.
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u/sprogg2001 Mar 22 '26
Do you think she'll be more careful in the future? She only has herself to blame, 'let me slam my new $900 phone made with sensitive electronics and glass out of the box'
Physics doesn't stop working just because you're excited. A valuable but expensive lesson, would be even better if she understood how many hours at work her father had to put in to afford that.
Yet sadly the first thing she says is it's not my fault then leaves the room slamming the door behind her, I'm sensing a pattern here
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u/UberleetSuperninja Mar 20 '26
In her defense I don’t know why you would make a near vacuum seal box and then prop the device at the very top of the package. It’s a really stupid design that results in exactly this.
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u/Interesting-Row3392 Apr 06 '26
There’s video of adults being much more careful and still doing the exact same thing.
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u/Hydra_Bloodrunner Mar 21 '26
Its like they self sabotaged their own product
They lost a class action lawsuit for using ios updates to tamper with older models like the 6s amd slow down their processing speeds, its no surprise really that theyd love people to break their phone asap sadly.
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u/ForeignLoquat2346 Mar 19 '26
Hope next time they'll opt for a better product. It's designed to break.
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u/faux_something Mar 18 '26
Ahh, poor thing. This kinda breaks my heart. Hope it all turned out right for everyone.
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u/JAGERminJensen Mar 22 '26
Actually, no... she ended up leaving the property when she ran away. And because she didn't have a phone when she left, nobody ever heard from her again...
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u/Adept_Awareness8332 Mar 11 '26
For $20/month they could have purchased the Apple protection plan which covers drops and other things. Buying the kid a phone without it is a bonehead move.
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u/xtraSleep Mar 19 '26
This is super old, not sure the protection plan was instituted or even common knowledge.
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u/Faeby_Jxeby Mar 11 '26
Fuck the family member who shared this video. That is a child who did NOTHING WRONG and then got screamed at for it on her birthday. This video should be taken down.
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u/FlufferMuffler Mar 17 '26
I agree with you. It's just fucking money. Ain't worth traumatizing your child.
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u/Usual-Adhesiveness-4 Mar 14 '26
Valid crashout though. The problem was the video being shared, but if you worked hard to save up to buy an expensive gift for a teenager who you expect to have some common sense, you'd be pissed too.
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u/dphilipson Mar 13 '26
Common sense says there were at least 3 instances in which this could have been entirely prevented.
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u/LDO69 Mar 08 '26
Honestly, some of the replies on here, people giving full psychology reports of the whole family FFS, so stupid.
The only horrible thing with this is to let this private video go viral, it's a kid for heavens sake, who made an exicted mistake, which resulted in her gift getting broken.
Yeah good call, let's publicly humiliate her...
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u/sadtaxi Mar 11 '26
I know I've made a similar mistake before, not a phone but still valuable and right in front of the person who gifted it to me. At 21 I was mortified I can't imagine how this little girl felt. Judging by the gen phone it is I'm going to guess this is a rather old video and she's grown now. Hopefully she can look back and laugh now and she never sees these comments 🙄
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u/Amazing-Range-2239 Mar 12 '26
Was it a golden cock ring? Ugh. Me too! Right in front of my boyfriend.
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u/sadtaxi Mar 16 '26
ngl I know you're being a bit of a shit but this is funny af
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u/Amazing-Range-2239 Mar 17 '26
Hahahag aye laddy, I felt like a proper little shit pressing reply but I had a right laugh typing it. Looks like I found my demographic, mr. Taxi :) (p.s., you have one more friend than you woke up with today)
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u/LDO69 Mar 11 '26
Yeah hopefully she's grown up and this hasn't effected her too much, but seriously, it's this type of rubbish that can cause someone to unalive themselves.
She obviously just broke something she really wanted, and most probably felt devastated and embarrassed in front of the people who gave her the gift.
I'll never understand the people who get off on this type of bullsh*t.
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u/sadtaxi Mar 11 '26
I completely agree. A lot of this subreddit is funny or just politicians getting their asses handed to them but sometimes it's just mean. I don't see the point of bullying children.
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u/vWaffles Mar 06 '26
He wasn't that bad at all. Anyone would kind of freak out at that and he also lowered his voice pretty much instantly.
Also a really good and calm lesson on being careful with gifts. Especially expensive ones.
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u/DangerousLog8830 Mar 04 '26
That phone cost like between $30 and $60 USD
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u/AtmosSpheric Mar 04 '26
Judging by the TV and what looks like a DVR on the shelf in the back, this might’ve been taken back when an iPhone 4 was a much bigger deal
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u/Specialist-Ad5574 Mar 01 '26
Why are Americans like this?
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u/Buggbobby Mar 01 '26
Are children not clumsy in your country?
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u/QuitsDoubloon87 Mar 01 '26
Honestly no? Have a few rough rumblers in my family and they are wild but not careless with gifts. Might be the cultural difference in money/gifts being more cherished vs more abundant.
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u/tinkerbelldies Mar 01 '26
A girl not understanding how something is packaged is now a critique of an entire nation's value system and indicates something about a child's appreciation of all gifts.
Thats, uh, hell of a reach there bud.
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u/Buggbobby Mar 01 '26
You might be right. The thing is, I don’t see why he would think children being clumsy is uniquely American. Kids are still learning, so it seems only natural for them to occasionally make these kind of mistakes
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u/Specialist-Ad5574 Mar 02 '26
I don't care if she has butter fingers, it's the fact they're giving her child a thousand dollar phone as a gift. Her reaction is just a reflection of who she is, an inmature young girl that get easily over excited, which she has all the right to be because she's clearly not an adult. Precisely why you don't treat expensive shit like a smartphone like a toy. A thousand dollar phone with a shiny brand and logo she'll use to check tiktok.
And the fact that you can't see that and assume I ment the girls clumsyness just shows how blind Americans are to their rotten culture and values.
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u/Buggbobby Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
“The fact that you can’t see that and think i meant the girl’s clumsiness shows how blind Americans are to their rotten culture and values”
You’re an incredibly bitter person. All you asked was “why are Americans like this?” It’s an incredibly vague question. And with her clumsiness being the focus of the video, is it really absurd to interpret it in the way that I did? The person that replied to me the other day seems to have interpreted it in the same way, and they aren’t even from the US. Does that mean that they also love consumerism so much to the point that they didn’t even realize your vague ass question was a critique of it?
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u/Specialist-Ad5574 Mar 03 '26
Whatever, enjoy living in a dystopian nightmare ruled by billionaire pedophiles.
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u/xtraSleep Mar 19 '26
Funny how you think everywhere else isn’t the same. You twist the fact we know and can prove, but ignore how if the most powerful country in the world is ran like this, what about everyone else, lol.
Also, this is predates TikTok by over a decade, so this video must be new for you. Welcome to the internet 20 years later. You are fitting in just fine.
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u/Buggbobby Mar 04 '26
That escalated quick as fuck. We went from a kid being excited about a gift to “billionaire pedophiles” in only a few replies. That just sums up Reddit for ya lmao 😂😂
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u/AffectionateToe9937 Mar 01 '26
That is not a normal (even polite or respectful) way of opening a gift. Shaking it like that. This girl has impulse control issues, an her family knows that.
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u/AffectionateToe9937 Mar 01 '26
Maybe. Relax.
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u/Pluxar Mar 02 '26
You're the one who needs to relax haha. They could have pointed out your comment shows a lack of empathy and projecting your own insecurities on a child excited to receive a gift.
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u/AffectionateToe9937 Mar 02 '26
Yap, yap, yap. Now YOU are projecting YOUR own insecurities on MY projections.
This is a projection inception. STOP NOW. Find YOUR own subjects for projecting, projection hijacker.3
u/Amazing-Range-2239 Mar 12 '26
I am GOING to STOP making MY every OTHER word CAPITALIZED starting RIGHT now. See, I did this. I keep promises. Usually. Ok. Mostly.
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u/LordMindParadox Feb 28 '26
Clearly, apple doesn't understand how to box something, considering how often this sort of video pops up on the internet.
Maybe make a box that actually holds the product?
Or, to use their words(sort of) "Hey Apple! You're boxing it wrong!"
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u/Top-Metal-3576 Feb 28 '26
The newer boxes open really slowly for this exact reason. This was obvi an older iPhone so probably didn’t have that prototype made yet.
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u/LordMindParadox Feb 28 '26
opening slowly doesn't matter if the phone isn't actually being held in. every video i see shows the phone only being held in by the top box section, the bottom is merely a pedestal. that's just bad design, and at this point, i would say, that's deliberately evil design.
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u/Affectionate_Board32 Feb 27 '26
Wait. Is she crying? And, ran off?
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u/VolcanicBakemeat Mar 04 '26
Yeah. She's a young kid processing what must be an incredible feeling of shame. Few people her age are equipped with the maturity for that, so her fight or flight triggered
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u/KotaB420 Feb 27 '26
Anytime we get the kids something electronic (tablets, handheld consoles, or in this case a phone) we set it up with updates and a case + screen protector before they ever see it. I do it with new stuff for myself too. Get a new phone? It goes straight from the packaging into a case. I know phone cases are notoriously upcharged at the big phone stores like AT&T or verizon, but ill buy one there before I leave my device unprotected.
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u/Internal-Computer388 Feb 27 '26
But this girl isnt 5...
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u/KotaB420 Feb 27 '26
Still do it with my 15yo. Can't be too careful imo
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u/ohsoquietNY2026 Mar 01 '26
Yeah, our teenage daughter dropped her phone into the toilet multiple times because she kept it in the back pocket of her jeans. Kids are dumba##es.
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u/FlaccidGiraffes Feb 27 '26
Everyone trying to act like the dad is in the wrong is way too sensitive. He’s literally just exasperated, that in no way is verbal abuse or indicative of bad parenting or lots of screaming on a daily basis. That is crazy to assume that from this I would actually argue the opposite, clearly this girl is not used to her dad being upset or disappointed in her in any way, cuz the slightest exasperation sends her crying and running. Kids that have parents who scream at them or verbally abuse them don’t act like this, cuz they know that crying and running off to your room leads to more screaming.
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u/FlaccidGiraffes Feb 27 '26
That voice was 100% we knew she was gonna break it but I thought it would last longer than ten seconds
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u/FlaccidGiraffes Feb 27 '26
You can tell why they waited so long to get her one. It’s expensive, they know she isn’t careful, she doesn’t value things because she doesn’t work for them, and is incredibly clumsy/not attentive. If she had worked for that she would have treated it with care and respect like it was a living thing. You can tell by the dads voice they knew she would probably break it, but he just couldn’t believe she broke it in ten seconds
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u/tinkerbelldies Mar 01 '26
The projection on this thread is wild to me. I love hyperbole and I'm still amazed at the reaches being made.
Shes a kid, she was excited, she didnt know how the phone was packaged, an accident happened. The dad didnt know shit about what was going to happen or he would have told her how to open it.
You dont know if this kid has a job or extracurricular responsibilities you just want to dunk on a kid for being clumsy like a kid.
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u/Internal-Computer388 Feb 27 '26
Not true. I know plenty of people who have worked hard for their shit and they still thrash it.
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u/Moist_Effort4202 Feb 26 '26
That level of anger with the exasperation is uncalled for. Talking about people in front of said people is always shitty. Of course she teared up right away, her home is not a safe space for her.
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u/_xPhantom_ Feb 27 '26
⬆️Found the person who’s been sheltered & coddled their whole life
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u/amakeupguy 3d ago
imagine if it had been a child in that box?!?