China, a country where people hate America, yet, they love their products... Is it envy? Nonetheless, all humanity is this ****ed up, not just China - just look how crazy us westerners go about the launch of a new iPhone or iPad too...
China, a country where people hate America...
Sorry, but you are being racist. If by 'here' you mean the UK, you are somehow forgetting the murder of some kid in tense Boxing Day sales on Oxford Street. Or did that not count, because the kid didn't meet your definition of an Englishman either.
One could argue that people who can afford an iPhone are not poor people anymore. If you look at Hong Kong, there people do queue up at iPhone launches. But of course Hong Kong is richer than Beijing (at least in terms of median income), has been 'rich' for quite some time and has been under British/European influence for multiple generations.This is Asia, people don't queue up here.
And not only here but in many poor Countries people don't queue.
I am used to it now but it takes time to get used to the unorderly crowds.
I agree. It sickens me that we continually support companies like Apple than have no regard for human life. As far as I'm concerned, every time we buy from Apple it is using blood money.
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Then I'm not sure where you'll get your tech from.
Foxconn's major customers:
Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
Amazon.com (United States)
Amazon (United States)
ASRock (Taiwan)
Asus (Taiwan)
Barnes & Noble (United States)
Cisco (United States)
Dell (United States)
EVGA Corporation (United States)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Intel (United States)
IBM (United States)
Lenovo (China)
Logitech (Switzerland)
Microsoft (United States)
MSI (Taiwan)
Motorola (United States)
Netgear (United States)
Nintendo (Japan)
Nokia (Finland)
Panasonic (Japan)
Philips (Netherlands)
Samsung (South Korea)
Sharp (Japan)
Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)
Toshiba (Japan)
Vizio (United States)
And that's just Foxconn. Then there all the other companies in China that do the same thing. One can only imagine who else their customers are.
If you're typing your self-righteous posts from a modern computer or portable device, you're involved in that whole "blood money" thing already.
Calling for a halt to production and refusing to buy tech from Apple or anyone else is a ridiculous solution to a problem that can only be resolved by the governments of the countries in with these production plants are located.
Cheap labour is a reality, especially given that the United States is no longer globally competitive in manufacturing. It's simply not economical. When someone else in some other country can do it cheaper while maintaing a reasonable level of Quality Control, corporations will naturally shift production there.
If you'd like to move production back to the US or into your backyard (that has apparently been blessed by a saint), then be prepared to pay more for the same products. Unionization and the lifestyle expectations of the average American worker have seen to that. Of course, if you like your internet, your apps, your advanced mobile device, and the luxury of posting your remarks from then, then you'll find yourself in a bit of a pickle. What you're actually proposing is to not buy "made in China" at all. Good luck with that.
So you see, it isn't as simple as refusing to buy from company A or B as a symbol of protest, unless of course, you're ready to make some serious sacrifices in your level of technological comfort.
So I assume we won't be seeing you around here for a while. Amirite?
Or halve the size of the crowd, the waiting times and safety concerns by offering two per customer. That's not rocket science either.
It did not count because he wasn't an ordinary Englishman out shopping. Whilst of-course any loss of life is tragic, I should point out that he was an Englishman from the notorious London street gang ABM who went into London on Boxing day with other gang members with the intention of using the sales crush as cover for shoplifting. The fight was then because they ran into rival gang 031 Bloods.
I'm not gonna deny that Londons senseless gang violence happens, but it's not typical Britain.
I agree. It sickens me that we continually support companies like Apple than have no regard for human life. As far as I'm concerned, every time we buy from Apple it is using blood money.
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No doubt materialism is encouraged in China. It replaces personal freedom.
We have a young friend from China. She probably thought that everybody lived like the people in the movies and TV shows.
Well, she has found out different and now dreams of a big house and nice things. She does have an iPhone but no drivers license or job skills, a baby to raise and a husband with a very modest income. With a lot of hard work she might do fine.
No doubt materialism is encouraged in China. It replaces personal freedom.
Calling for a halt to production and refusing to buy tech from Apple or anyone else is a ridiculous solution to a problem that can only be resolved by the governments of the countries in which these production plants are located.
Seriously dude...this is what the #Occupy movement was all about. Losing one life is one life too many.
Ah, yes. What a great way to keep people from fighting for anything they deserve--like fair wages or getting corporations to pay their share of taxes. I mean, why should we fight for things to be fair? If we're given rotten food to eat, forced to feed it to our kids, why should we complain? After all, people are starving in Africa.We should ship out the occupy protesters to work in the deplorable conditions in China to see if they still have something to complain about. lololololol
I have Chinese friends, and they've explained to me that this is simply how the Chinese behave. It's a cultural thing. They never line-up, they just crowd around, and push, and shove and try to get ahead of everyone else. Of course it leads to riot-like conditions for a very desirable product.
It's very obvious here in Toronto when lining up for the streetcar. Everyone forms a nice line, then a bunch of people from China (not the Chinese actually born here) simply ignore the line, rush to the front of it when the doors open, and shove their way inside. Everyone in line rolls their eyes, and keeps quiet because they don't want to appear racist.
I'm not a racist person, but... what is it with the Chinese and taking shopping too seriously .
When the iPhone 4S was released here, yes it was popular, but there was an orderly queue. People when they got to the front of the queue went in and bought themselves an iPhone. There was no "scalping". There was no pushing and shoving. People just, well, bought the phone.
And at the Christmas sales this year in London:
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(Selfridges)
It's like Where's Waldo?, but instead is spot the Englishman!