Foxconn Factory Worker Detained Over iPhone 6 Shell Leaks

[H2SO4]

About freaking time.

Punishment should be severe for compromising trade secrets and security!

If you can imagine the effort and time it takes to clamp down on security and then one weasel smuggles things out and completely nullify's the effort.

Isn't it a shame that even top people in Apple are not privy to the product's details and then this guy sneaks this out and is posing for pictures holding the iPhone like a street vendor?

The western world has plenty of its own thieves that you need to think about first. It’s funny how people get all bent out of shape about possessions. Seems you can get more for armed robbery than murder these days.
The top people in America I’m sure steal A LOT more than this guy ever did.

 

[juanm]

$960 costs this guy his cool job.

Cool?

 

[Orlandoech]

I hear it's almost as bad as American prison!

American jail or Mexican jail. Im going to pick American jail any day. As for prison... not too sure lol.

 

[gagaliya]

The current Foxcon worker makes about 400 a month supposedly so if we doubled their wage to 800 or even tripled it to 1200 the cost of the iPhone might up 100 dollars (that is a high estimate).

It might be in Apples best incentive to raise their workers wages (it allows them to afford what they are making basically putting money back into the company, also many in China who are coming into middle class might see Apple as a loyal brand for their progressive take on workers rights/pay.

Foxconn employees 1 million workers in china. By increasing each worker's pay $100/month, the total increase per year will be $1.2 billion. Bear in mind foxconn is only responsible for assembling the iphone not making any of the core chips. Using apple's own prediction of 60 million units, the increase per phone is $20.

It doesnt look a lot to us and will improve those workers life significantly, in the utopia world where shareholders and corporations dont try to squeeze every cent of profit, it can happen. But in the real world $20 increase or even $5 increase per phone is like the titanic for the stock/margin. It will never happen.

 

[nazaar]

I'm all for clamping down the leaks.... if only to stop MacRumors from posting anything about them

 

[macs4nw]

Dear Foxconn
If you paid your workers more they would tell anyone who asks them to steal to go **** themselves. They would value the secrecy.

Not sure that would work; there will still be people willing to sell their integrity for a price, a human weakness unfortunately. The price for the leaks would just be higher.

 

[yanki01]

so next year, we'll get the same news of them detaining a worker for iPhone 6s/7 shell leaks. it still won't change anything. whomever on the outside is paying these people will pay off another worker next year for the leaks/products.

carry on.

 

[AdonisSMU]

$960 costs this guy his cool job.

At what job can you steal items and not get fired?

 

[ElRojito]

Be ready we are about to hear a bunch of balony about how this wouldn't of happened in America

I think you mean "Bologna."

 

[gimikinc]

If devices like this were made in America, where checks are thorough, security is tighter and corporate espionage/knockoffs aren't as prominent perhaps this wouldn't have happened. Perhaps.

Would be great if products were made in America, but not sure the market will bear the prices for them to be produced here.

As far as it being tighter not sure that is true as a broad statement.

 

[ricktat]

$960 is pretty cheap.

He should have started a kickstarter for leaked parts.

People from this forum alone would have netted him 10 times that.

 

[Tankmaze]

Word of advice to the Foxconn worker who want to leak the shell of the next iPhone is ........ask for a LOT of money, which should be enough for your retirement. $960 to lose a job is not worth it...

 

[heisenberg123]

At what job can you steal items and not get fired?

unionized ones

 

[Mousse]

Qiao hid one shell in his pocket and successfully avoided the security check by leaving at the peak of quitting time

If he had left during the slow exodus period, security would have caught him for sure. From the picture in a different article, the shell is pretty big.

Security: "Hey Qiao, is that an iPhone 6 shell in your pocket or are just happy to see me?"

 

[NY Sour Diesel]

At least he didn't get pushed out a window

 

[Jazper]

All the more impressive that the watch wasn't leaked.

Because production hasn't started on it yet.

 

[heisenberg123]

If he had left during the slow exodus period, security would have caught him for sure. From the picture in a different article, the shell is pretty big.

Security: "Hey Qiao, is that an iPhone 6 shell in your pocket or are just happy to see me?"

I thought phones bigger than 3.5-4" were too big to fit in your pocket

 

[octothorpe8]

What gets me angry is not the stealing part. I also work for a company that supplies parts to various other technology companies, and to me it's a matter of personal pride that none of these parts or even customer prototypes leak out. Whenever I see a leak, I feel like someone is giving everyone in the business a bad name and is making us all look stupid.

And yet here you are on a website called MacRumors that is basically making a living off leaks like this.

 

[macs4nw]

The current Foxcon worker makes about 400 a month supposedly so if we doubled their wage to 800 or even tripled it to 1200 the cost of the iPhone might up 100 dollars (that is a high estimate).

It might be in Apples best incentive to raise their workers wages (it allows them to afford what they are making basically putting money back into the company, also many in China who are coming into middle class might see Apple as a loyal brand for their progressive take on workers rights/pay.

That might be nice if every other technology company out there would do the same thing; otherwise it amounts to giving all the others a sizeable competitive advantage, something no company, not even Apple, could sustain for very long.

But the shareholders wouldn't even let it go that far, heads would roll before too long.

 

[wovel]

Citizens of the world most poorest country having 18 trillion debt think the citizens of the world most richest country having 1.4 trillion us treasury bond are slaves. Isn't it funny?

The majority of US debt is held by the US Government and the US citizens. I think characterizing the US as the poorest country in the world based on the debt is beyond silly.

Americans hold far more than 1.4 trillion in treasury bonds so your whole argument makes no sense at all.

 

[melendezest]

They're going to make an example out of this guy, for sure.

 

[HiVolt]

Case manufacturers should pitch in and bail this guy out.

 

[KdParker]

If they paid more than 1$ per hour, and people didn't have to work like slaves, They wouldn't compromise their morals for 1000$... Well at least more of them...

if they pay that much then they could move the manufacturing to the US.

 

[DudeDad]

$960 costs this guy his cool job.

Given his monthly rate, he could retire on $960

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I heard that MacRumors had offered him $900....(just kidding)

 

[KdParker]

What gets me angry is not the stealing part. I also work for a company that supplies parts to various other technology companies, and to me it's a matter of personal pride that none of these parts or even customer prototypes leak out. Whenever I see a leak, I feel like someone is giving everyone in the business a bad name and is making us all look stupid.

On the other hand, I guess the difference is that I actually work in a kind of job that I can take pride in, while I can understand that Foxconn workers are not able to generate a lot of emotional investment in the product they are building.

Sooo.. you make about 2 /hour?

I doubt that.