The phone serves me well, the screen size is fine for me right now. I am in a contract I have no intention to force their hand.
Why so negative?
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Foxconn Says Current Hiring Freeze Due to Strong Returning Workforce, Not Waning iPhone 5 Demand
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The phone serves me well, the screen size is fine for me right now. I am in a contract I have no intention to force their hand.
Why so negative?
How does Foxcon know how many employees are returning from the holiday break when the holiday break ends five days from now? Maybe some folks come back early, but would projections be so solid at this point when many of the employees are staying until the end of the celebration on Sunday and only then getting on train on Monday for two day trip back to Foxcon factories?
Seems suspicious. But also consistent with what I think Apple is going to do which is accelerate to a twice yearly refresh rate on the iPhone.
Seems suspicious. But also consistent with what I think Apple is going to do which is accelerate to a twice yearly refresh rate on the iPhone.
It's so interesting that Apple is portrayed as the reason for hiring freeze out of all these companies:
Acer Inc.
Amazon.com
Apple Inc.
Cisco
Dell
Google
Hewlett-Packard
Microsoft
Motorola Mobility
Nintendo
Nokia
Sony
Toshiba
Vizio
These are all customers of Foxconn. Are they saying the iPhone 5 even keeps these other companies in business to require the need for the employees they have now?
Go.
Acer Inc.
Amazon.com
Apple Inc.
Cisco
Dell
Hewlett-Packard
Microsoft
Motorola Mobility
Nintendo
Nokia
Sony
Toshiba
Vizio
These are all customers of Foxconn. Are they saying the iPhone 5 even keeps these other companies in business to require the need for the employees they have now?
Go.
Haha, so that pic is from like 4.5 years ago! Then again, Asians don't really age between 15 and 45 so maybe this pic is from yesterday.
They may ask workers to indicate their intentions of returning. It would be bad business to simply wait until the day line was ready to start up to figure out if you had enough workers to staff it.
So that's an iPhone 3G in that picture. I'm confident that the demand is low on that particular model.
I'm sure you've all see this before, but it's always funny. And not intended to be racist, at least on my part.
Welcome to the real world. Any media outlet is a form of propaganda. Apple has been the beneficiary of plenty of it themselves. CNN could have been renamed the Apple network the last couple of years. Forbes, and Motley Fool both rehash daily stories about how Blackberry is failing, and how Apple is going to skyrocket back to 700, because they lost their @$$es on the Apple stock falling (and shorting Blackberry stock) and they are trying to manipulate the market to do what is in their best financial interest.
And a silver shortage was responsible for the delays in getting the new iMac into customer's hands.
Agreed, but I was getting the sense that there was also an issue that workers get home back to their families and at the end of the vacation decide that they don't want to do another 3 - 4 month stint away from home. Also, I suspect, once home these workers ask around for local jobs that are comparable and if they find one during these two weeks (and granted competition must be highest then) they tell Foxcon to forget it. Remember these are often married adults with kids who are working at Foxcon and not seeing their families for months at a time. I was getting the sense that folks change their minds about coming back during the vacation and you don't know for sure if the worker is back until they walk through the gate.
Because the Financial Times is more reliable?
If there was any truth to the FT story Foxconn would most likely have said "we don't comment on blah blab blah".
Personally, I don't accept as truth anything that depends upon "x most likely would have...".
Your standards may be more flexible than mine, however.
Good point. Apple is responsable for 9-14% of manufacture, up to 15% of turnover for Foxconn. Out of that, the iPhone5 is 1, maybe 2%. There are still about the same numbers of 4S and 4 being build. So, this 2% of manufacturing capacity should be responsible for a hiring freeze?
And the introduction of the first 30000 robots (out of a planed 1M) has also nothing to do with it. The massive decline in Dell computers, the loss of Samsung manufacture to there own factories (smaller hands) the reduction by 50% of Surface Tablets, the virtual standstill in Sony Playstations (all made in whole or in part by Foxconn) is not a contributing factor?
So the company comes out and explains even why there is no relation to the iPhone5, a tiny blob in the grand picture of 1.2 million Fosconn employees, and still someone tries to make a story about it? Is there no real news?
It's her!
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Lol. Married to an asian and that's the process her momma took
I wouldn't be surprised if the demand was decreasing. It always happens when the phone has been out for a long time. It would make sense to stop or decrease hiring at certain times.
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The lady on the far right is the grandma in Legend of Zelda the Windwaker. But I doubt Link is supposed to be Asian, at least not eastern Asian. I'd guess that he's Armenian since it's the kingdom of HYrule led by King HarkinIAN.
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THAT'S HILARIOUS!
Wow, this has to go on the news somewhere.
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The lady on the far right is the grandma in Legend of Zelda the Windwaker. But I doubt Link is supposed to be Asian, at least not eastern Asian. I'd guess that he's Armenian since it's the kingdom of HYrule led by King HarkinIAN.
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THAT'S HILARIOUS!
Wow, this has to go on the news somewhere.
