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Foxconn Hiring Record 100,000 New Employees for iPhone 6 Production as Pegatron Also Staffs Up

100,000 potential new leak sources!
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Xeperu said:
I remmende this forum going bonkers ober the fact that a competing brand was bringing out larger screen size phones and that they would NEVER want a large iPhone, because glorious Steve said 4" was big enough. And they rest of the world was stupid, and that they never wanted a bigger iPhone because it was stupid and Steve said so.

And here we have. And I bet a larger screen size will be seen as innovative :p.
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Three forum members (so far) have given this reply 'up' votes?

My head hurt reading this person's reply.
 
Xeperu said:
I remmende this forum going bonkers ober the fact that a competing brand was bringing out larger screen size phones and that they would NEVER want a large iPhone, because glorious Steve said 4" was big enough. And they rest of the world was stupid, and that they never wanted a bigger iPhone because it was stupid and Steve said so.

And here we have. And I bet a larger screen size will be seen as innovative :p.
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who here said that this is innovative? for me personally I would prefer it if Apple kept it under 4.5 inch. but obviously that's not the direction apple is following so we'll take whatever it comes. but that doesn't mean that big phones DON'T look stupid.

here let's me emphasize it again just in case you miss our position:

BIG PHONES LOOKS STUPID.:rolleyes:

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Eduardo1971 said:
100,000 potential new leak sources!
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Three forum members (so far) have given this reply 'up' votes?

My head hurt reading this person's reply.
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Well you have a billion of "them" out there ...
 
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iolinux333 said:
Wow. Suddenly hiring 100,000 people - SKILLED and RELIABLE people, suddenly, to build one thing, is impressive to say the least. I can't even imagine how that could ever happen in the US. I can't even imagine 10,000 in the US. I can't even begin to speculate how different things are over there for the conditions to allow such a thing. Maybe people who have been there can understand. I cannot understand.
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this is what i say everyone someone says "too bad it's not made in USA". the workforce doesn't exist here. the unemployed are either casualties of the recession who had desk jobs that it turned out were completely worthless, or they are just so unskilled or unreliable to hold down any kind of job. or unwilling to do the work that is out there. it would be a complete nightmare to try to hire people to build iphones in the U.S. in China they will line up to do it and do a good job at it
 
mtneer said:
Or is Apple counting on a mega explosion of sales in a somewhat saturated market (in the West)?
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Saturated or not... Apple sells a ridiculous amount of phones.

During the last Holiday quarter they sold 51 million iPhones... an average of 566,000 iPhones EVERY DAY. :eek:

And I can't imagine them slowing down... not during the iPhone 6 cycle.

They're clearly gonna need all the factory workers they can get this Fall.
 
They know what's up. Some people want bigger phones. It's a main reason why people pick androids over iPhones. I really think this release is going to turn the tables.
 
TouchMint.com said:
They know what's up. Some people want bigger phones. It's a main reason why people pick androids over iPhones. I really think this release is going to turn the tables.
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i don't think it is the main reason, i think the main reason is price. screen size is definitely on the list though.
 
furi0usbee said:
And 100-1 those are some guy's nails. For some reason, all men who take pictures with Apple products have very long nails. Don't know why.
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Built-in screwdriver.

And I'm really not joking. I once watched a cab driver in Shanghai use his thumbnail to re-attached the door handle which had fallen off the car (the cabs there really are quite crap).
 
Those are probably workers for iPhones, iPads, iwatch and whatever else is in the fall pipeline. That's a lot of people!
 
I know this has been beaten to death, but it sure would be nice to see the government(s) work with schools and companies like Apple to develop this scale of manufacturing in the US. If workers need training, give it to them. Build a huge infrastructure in a certain part of the country to allow us to compete with Asia. There are challenges to be met, but we have millions out of work here. Mobile manufacturing isn't a fad. It would be an Apollo scale project, but we did that pretty well.
 
furi0usbee said:
100,000 more employees sounds excessive, even for China standards. It's funny, we are all worried that robots will someday take all of our jobs. In China, it's actually cheaper to use human labor to do such things as put the final pieces of the phone together/packaging/etc. The cost of keeping that many robots online is much more than paying these poor saps a very minimum wage. To keep this post apolitical, I'll stop here.
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Never underestimate the ability of an Asian manufacturing firm to hire large amounts of people, house them, feed them, matchmaker them, exercise them to company songs, make parallel manufacturing lines and dump a product build on the market. Better if you can play it to your advantage.
 
Michael Scrip said:
Saturated or not... Apple sells a ridiculous amount of phones.

During the last Holiday quarter they sold 51 million iPhones... an average of 566,000 iPhones EVERY DAY. :eek:

And I can't imagine them slowing down... not during the iPhone 6 cycle.

They're clearly gonna need all the factory workers they can get this Fall.
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I get that the numbers are colossal. But isn't Foxconn already huge? A million workers or more? It would be interesting to know how many of those were focused on the iPhone 5 and 5s to manufacture phones needed to support the 500,000+ sales per day as you have cited.
 
iolinux333 said:
Wow. Suddenly hiring 100,000 people - SKILLED and RELIABLE people, suddenly, to build one thing, is impressive to say the least. I can't even imagine how that could ever happen in the US. I can't even imagine 10,000 in the US. I can't even begin to speculate how different things are over there for the conditions to allow such a thing. Maybe people who have been there can understand. I cannot understand.
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It couldn't, sadly. Even paying them min wage would be ~$1.7b/year. A livable salary would be about $4b/year. Not that that would be a huge issue for Apple, but they're not going to spend it if they don't have to.

Wish they would, though.

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lk400 said:
Foxconn and Pegatron are American now?
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Pretty sure he means Apple.
 
MacSince1990 said:
It couldn't, sadly. Even paying them min wage would be ~$1.7b/year. A livable salary would be about $4b/year. Not that that would be a huge issue for Apple, but they're not going to spend it if they don't have to.

Wish they would, though.
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In the US, I would think that the biggest problem for such an endeavor would be finding 100,000 able, willing and skilled people to perform the job; not the cost of paying salaries.
 
CFreymarc said:
Never underestimate the ability of an Asian manufacturing firm to hire large amounts of people, house them, feed them, matchmaker them, exercise them to company songs, make parallel manufacturing lines and dump a product build on the market. Better if you can play it to your advantage.
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Yeah, at some plants, they employ more people than the average US city.
 
AFDoc said:
Lol at that. I would be more than happy to pay slightly more for an American made iPhone.





Parts are looking great and I say keep em coming. As far as the top bezel... sure it would be great if they shrunk it but the earpiece, flash, and other sensors need to be placed some where.
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I wonder what the cost difference would be.
Since they would have to build new factories and train workers, I bet the price difference for that scenario would be MASSIVE in the short run.
I don't think it would be smart to do that.
 
mtneer said:
Why would they have to hire a 100,000 new workers? Wouldn't the existing workers on the iPhone 5 and 5s lines be sufficient to cover production moving to iPhone 6? Or is Apple counting on a mega explosion of sales in a somewhat saturated market (in the West)?
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Maybe they fired 1000,000 workers several months ago
 
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