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Apple Puts Foxconn Factory in India on Probation Following Protests
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One billion Apple customers are happy about slave labour.
I'm not saying that they are actual slaves by force. They are Economic slaves.
not at all. people need to get out the yearly upgrade cycle and I couldn't care less about Apple stock.
So you are saying one billion apple customers are happy there are many, many people who have been given jobs who wouldn’t have had any work?
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People won’t get out of the yearly upgrade cycle and manufacturers of consumer grade electronics won’t either.
Cost of shifting production from an authoritarian regime to the World’s largest democracy…
Nothing wrong with workers fighting for improving their rights and living conditions. I am French so maybe it’s cultural bias? Lots of angry Americans here talking about the destruction of private property of the world’s largest corporation like it’s an absolute sin. Go Indian workers and hopefully this will lead to Foxconn improving conditions for their employees globally, including in China where they don’t have freedom to protest.
Nothing wrong with workers fighting for improving their rights and living conditions. I am French so maybe it’s cultural bias? Lots of angry Americans here talking about the destruction of private property of the world’s largest corporation like it’s an absolute sin. Go Indian workers and hopefully this will lead to Foxconn improving conditions for their employees globally, including in China where they don’t have freedom to protest.
Exactly. It's the typical "damned if you do; damned if you don't" mentality many here seem to express on a consistent basis.
They are as free as you to protest, jump from the roof, "lying flat", or switch jobs.
This is (at least) how much your Made in the USA non-pro version iPhone will cost
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the premium being paid is for the security, not because it is "made in America"
a friend of mine has one of their computers. he loves it.
Yes, Apple creates jobs.
The jobs that Apple create come way before the products ever sees the light of day (and some products never make it like the AirPower charger), and before a consumer ever gets a chance to see or buy it.
The consumer is what keeps the person employed long term.
What's with the casual racism of the American working class and their hatred of foreign workers?
If a person from India or China can do the same job for cheaper than an American, LET THEM. It benefits the consumers by reducing prices.
Can you imagine how expensive everything would be if Americans made these products?
Want to make everything 2-3x more expensive?
Tell the American poor or the retiree on fixed income that they should pay 2-3x more for everything they buy.
Not you, but I'd imagine Apple would be bothered seeing sales for a newly released iPhone drop by 50% or more because a lot of people will stop upgrading as often as they do.
Again, it is not about wages, but about supply chains, production lines, logistics and infrastructure.
China earns 3.6% of the production cost, namely for the assembly. This will only increase slightly with higher wages.
Indeed, which is why it would be that much more expensive to try and produce products in the US, because now you also have to spend money to build the infrastructure as well.
It's everything, from the security to the U.S. sourced components to the U.S. labor.
And it's not even using the latest components. If it did, it'd be a lot higher priced.
Put in the latest components and features you'd normally get in an iPhone and combined with Tim Cook's supply chain efficiencies and yeah, that's how much a non-Pro iPhone will cost.
the way the uneducated throw around the word they cannot even define is hilarious.
Less fuel waste in transport that way, too... assuming the source materials are also available locally, which they likely are not. Most of the electronics parts produced on this planet are not created in the continental USA.
Corporations abandoned local manufacturing in the USA to get slave wage labor elsewhere, especially after they abandoned component manufacturing in the states. Abandoning manufacturing in the USA resulted in a loss of expertise & experience, as well as equipment/infrastructure in the USA... which they re-characterize as the excuse “there’s no local skill/experience here” when asked “why don’t you build inside the USA”.
This is all on executives, boards of directors, and Wall Street; it’s greed, not the workers’ fault.
I don't feel the need to upgrade yearly like Kardashian wannabes. 😀
I went from an 8+ to a 12 and probably won't upgrade again until the 16. Its just a phone.
Huh? That’s what you got from that person’s comments? ??♂️ Seems you’re okay with exploited non-American workers, and would rather they be exploited so you can pay less for products as a result. Seems you have an issue with American workers not wanting to be as exploited (they still are exploited, but it could always be worse, as American executives have found outside the USA, in their pathological search for perpetual “growth” in profits by trying to perpetually shrink costs).