Foxconn Executive Speaks to Difficulty of iPhone 5 Assembly

[GermanyChris]

Yeh, like that's ever going to happen. The only way to stop that would be to make it illegal there is just too much money at stake. If people really cared they wouldn't buy the products, but as we can see its easy to talk but far more difficult to act.

you have to start somewhere at some point..

you never get anywhere without taking that first step

 

[xofruitcake]

I would rather buy an iPhone that was built by robots even if it is slightly thicker and heavier than a phone built by slave labour? Wouldn't you?

No, because those are not slave labor, they make around 1800 rmb a month + overtime and can quit the job anytime.. They needs those money to support their family. They don't make the same amount of money as someone in US or working in the same kind of condition does not make them slave. You need to revisit your English vocabulary..



slave   [sleyv] Show IPA noun, verb, slaved, slav·ing.
noun
1.
a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.

 

[pmbooks]

Now I understand...

.....why I've held off getting one.

“It takes time to learn how to make this new device. Practice makes perfect. Our productivity has been improving day by day.”