Foxconn Begins Seasonal Hiring Spree Ahead of 2018 iPhones

[newyorksole]

There’s nearly 2/3 of summer left. And it’s likely these phones will be launched in this season.

When most of your friends work in education and have off until the end of August / Labor Day or when your friends attend grad school and also go back around that time, then summer is pretty much over around Labor Day. Not technically speaking of course.

iPhone X launched in the fall. Who knows what’ll happen this year.
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Seriously.... it still seems like yesterday everyone going crazy about news on the X and now we are approaching the next revision. Luckily my 8 is holding up well. I don't see a need to upgrade.

Isn’t it nuts?

Also, I feel like I’m one of the few people who upgrades every single year. iPhone is mine and most people’s most used piece of technology. It’s important to me to have the latest and greatest.

It also costs nothing to upgrade considering iPhones hold their value and you can finance thru Apple instead of paying in full.

I got $600 for my 7 Plus and pay $50/Month for my iPhone X. That’s a year paid for right there.

 

[recoil80]

Looking forward to the fall when I'll be eligible for an upgrade. I'm not sure I'll go for the Plus this time, the 6.1'' could be the right choice but I want the dual camera and 3D touch, so I may have to chose between the 5.8'' and the bigger model and go for the "small" one.

 

[imageWIS]

Will not buying an iPhone bring back anyone who committed suicide? I don't see the relation between buying an iPhone and caring about the life of another human. Do more people commit suicide with each iPhone purchase? Is there perhaps a better way to fix the problem than to just stop buying iPhones? If everyone stopped buying iPhones, how many hundreds of thousands of lives would be negatively affected because they couldn't get a job assembling iPhones? If there was another, better job option for those people, wouldn't they already be choosing that over assembling phones?

There are a lot of unanswered questions here, least of which is how guilty we should all feel about something we did not cause and have no control over.

So, you take no personal responsibility for anything, gotcha.

 

[Guy Clark]

So, you take no personal responsibility for anything, gotcha.

Much like Apple it would seem.

 

[omihek]

So, you take no personal responsibility for anything, gotcha.

"Anything" is a stretch, but no I do not take personal responsibility for someone I don't know committing suicide half a world away because of work conditions that I did not set up or condone and that I have absolutely no control over.

Do you take personal responsibility for everything?

 

[cocky jeremy]

The fact that any employees are committing suicide relating to Apple manufacturing practices is sad and extremely concerning. Numbers and statistics are irrelevant.

Guess what... people that commit suicide have jobs. It happens no matter the job.

 

[Tech198]

$295 (US). ... It's still an increase to 'stay on'. Who *wouldn't* go for that