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# Foxconn suicides remembered in this iOS game
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/focxonn-suicides-remembered-ios-game/
- Published: 2012-10-12T21:30:15.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:51:40.000Z
- Description: Foxconn, the company that makes iPhones, iPads, and most gaming consoles, doesn’t have the best history. In 2010, 14 employees committed suicide due to terrible working conditions. The iOS game In a Permanent Save State imagines their afterlives. Kate Cox at Kotaku reports: Like Molleindustria’s Pho
- Author: Rachel Helps
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Foxconn, the company that makes iPhones, iPads, and most gaming consoles, doesn’t have the best history. In 2010, 14 employees committed suicide due to terrible working conditions. The iOS game *In a Permanent Save State* imagines their afterlives. Kate Cox at Kotaku reports:

> Like Molleindustria’s [*Phone Story*](http://kotaku.com/5839820/there-was-an-iphone-game-about-foxconn-until-apple-killed-it?tag=phone-story&ref=killscreen.com) before it, *In a Permanent Save State* seeks to make Western audiences—gamers and device owners—think harder and more carefully about their gadgets. Where does an iPhone really come from, and what are the consequences of its creation?  
>  
> These are the questions Poynter wants audiences to ask. The game is being released in tandem with an [art exhibit](http://www.sierra-arts.org/featurednews/coming-soon-benjamin-poynter/?ref=killscreen.com) examining the same ideas.

Is the game meant to cause guilt in any iOS user? The trailer is ambiguous.

[In a Permanent Save State (A Serious \[Mobile\] Game) – Release Teaser](http://vimeo.com/50775463?ref=killscreen.com) from [Benjamin Poynter](http://vimeo.com/benjaminpoynter?ref=killscreen.com) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/?ref=killscreen.com).