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- Developer: FunVid Apps http://gawker.com/5365412/chinese-people...
- The fortune cookie is broken by shaking the iPhone http://www.funvidapps.com/Site/LuckyFort...
- Website states: "As the fortune is revealed a Chinese music jingle is played and a wise Chinese man delivers your fortune" http://www.funvidapps.com/Site/LuckyFort...
- A New York Times writer described the voice as a "ching-chong voice" and said the "cliched string refrain" was distasteful http://gawker.com/5365412/chinese-people...
- FunVid Apps said they "have no intention of making fun of Chinese people" http://gawker.com/5365412/chinese-people...
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LuckyFortune is an iPhone app that features a fortune cookie that is broken open by shaking the iPhone. When the fortune cookie cracks open, a voice reads the fortune in, according to some, a stereotypical Chinese accent. In a New York Times article titled "Now You Can Get Fortune Cookies on Your iPhone with a Ching Chong Voice" the writer described it as a "faux Chinese-y accent."
The LuckyFortune iPhone app is considered by many to be "racially offensive."http://gawker.com/5364440/iphone-gets-first-racially-offensive-app
