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Actually, if you look closer there are Mac Mini's on their sides for the QA process and a PC for the assembly line process.

ah yes, i see the Mac Minis but at first i wasnt sure if they were actually Macs but then upon closure inspection with the magic scrollball zoom i see the OS X Menu Bar on the display above the fullscreen iTunes window. thanks…

…but what are the PCs used for, shown backwards facing us? surely for testing iPhone's Windows life?
 
Why??

looks like foxconn will be having one less worker on the assembly line...
Don't be ridiculous. The cute chick just smiled. She didn't do anything wrong. There's no way to know who actually snapped the picture. THAT'S the person who probably wasn't supposed to be snapping shots of his co-workers.
 
Wow, this issue getting a little famous in china now.These three photos can be found in many chinese web sites .
I believe she will know about it very soon, or maybe she's already known about it :)

Will there be something bad happen? I don't think so.
It's modern world now, for every country :)
 
Please relax people.

As long as she's a productive employee she's not going to get fired.

The colleague who took her picture might get reprimanded but that's most likely it.

Chinese companies are not scary like that... and I speak from experience having worked in China for several years. Chinese companies are remarkably like American companies...

In fact, just like American companies, this would be a perfect political opportunity for an opponent of her boss. Someone could blame the boss for being lax, and so the boss might be fired.
 
It's not racism; it's recognizing distinguishable differences. We're simply talking about visual appearance and nothing else so I'm sure people have preferences in that superficial realm. Plus, I don't want people to equate me to everyone else and thus strip me of all of my individual characteristics.

Ok that's makes since!?! So it's okay that Polish women are totally unattractive to me then right??? Or Hungarian, or Eastern European, etc...

You're an open-minded person critiquing visual appearances, and I tend to think I am too, as I can see beauty in women of ALL nationalities!!!

Peace & Love & :apple: forever!
 
Ok that's makes since!?! So it's okay that Polish women are totally unattractive to me then right??? Or Hungarian, or Eastern European, etc...

Yeah that's fine. I'm actually Polish (not sure if that was your goal there) and for the most part am not consistently attracted to Polish women either. I do realize that's fairly stereotypical though (certainly not racist) and that people should be viewed in an individual way instead. In fact, their nationalities are completely irrelevant. What I'm saying though is that it's understandable that some people might simply not be as attracted to certain physical features. Judging people differently because of what they look like: wrong. Not being as attracted to them because of their individual features: normal.

Certainly I can find beauty in all types of women as well but I'm not going to lie and say I'm attracted to all women. That also doesn't mean I don't respect them equally.
 
just came here to check the original post,
I'm from peking.
this thread has been spread to china......
 
Yeah that's fine. I'm actually Polish (not sure if that was your goal there) and for the most part am not consistently attracted to Polish women either. I do realize that's fairly stereotypical though (certainly not racist) and that people should be viewed in an individual way instead. In fact, their nationalities are completely irrelevant. What I'm saying though is that it's understandable that some people might simply not be as attracted to certain physical features. Judging people differently because of what they look like: wrong. Not being as attracted to them because of their individual features: normal.

Certainly I can find beauty in all types of women as well but I'm not going to lie and say I'm attracted to all women. That also doesn't mean I don't respect them equally.


That was my goal (by the way)! You make a good point and now I understand what you meant! No harm/no foul! Now back to the iPhone!
 
The girl and the guy that takes the photo will be fired. The pictures are widely spread in China now, in some forums in Shenzhen, where Foxconn is located, some guys that are familiar with Foxconn said that they are doing things not related with their work and will be punished.
I am from Shenzhen.
 
hi,i'm from China,i just registered my name in this forum because i have just read about the news from sina.com.cn (pop in China) .some people are worry about whether this cute girl could go on working there,but some seems optimistic coz she has just post a great ad in China.(my english is poor,can u understand me?):)
嗨,哥们我刚才刚看到这个新浪的新闻,就赶着来注册个号,一些人担心小姑娘是否能继续工作了,但是另外的一些比较乐观,因为小姑娘做了一个好广告 o(∩_∩)o...
 
At least she looks happy

Geez, everyone thinks she is in trouble! She looks happy, healthy and having fun with an iPhone! Assembly line work has go to be totally boring!

Keep up the good work!:)

:):apple::)
 
Don't be ridiculous. The cute chick just smiled. She didn't do anything wrong. There's no way to know who actually snapped the picture. THAT'S the person who probably wasn't supposed to be snapping shots of his co-workers.

I am afraid it would happen soon, www.sina.com already has this news, this girl is so fired.. You guys don't know Foxconn too much, it has nearly bloodiness rules. Cute girl, but poor girl, I hope these pictures never spread to Foxconn.

Please please... don't make this news more well-known, on behalf of Chinese compatriot.
 
Hi guys

Hi, guys. I'm from China and I found the news about your post at the gate web site, http://tech.sina.com.cn/t/2008-08-24/11312410215.shtml. The girl looks around 16-18 and she might be a staff of Faxconn as the news says. Now Foxcoon produces 0.8 million 3G Iphone weekly, and as well as Ipod. The Taiwanese did computer and related product OEM jobs for American and Japanese companies.

Iphone is still not officially sold in China. Ipod, Nano are everywhere. I personally don't like Jobs and prices is really expensive. And I heard the Lion battery will cost you an Ishuffer if you want to replace a new one. Most of the money you paid to Apple are kept by Apple's pocket and the big boss of Foxcoon is almost the richest guy in Great China Area. You know the salary of those workers? normally no more than 200 USD per months. You know how much a Chinese OEM Adidas shower sold in China? 6 USD/250ml. A normal H&M cloth sold in China? 20 USD or higher.

Maybe the working condition of Foxcoon is better than other China OEM factories. but I have to say, it is still not enough and most of the profits are to the companies. And "Made-in-China" goods worldwide bring developed country people a good life. CNN or BBC will not let you know this, of course, and lots of other more important things.

In China, we have the apple killer, Meizu. You guys can find Meizu mini player from google. Now I am still using an old MP3, Legend(that is the old name of Lenovo) 128MB(Segmatel 351X) with Sennheiser px100. That's enough for me to listen 192K MP3 songs on the way to my office.
 
Hi, I am a Chinese, I come from Shenzhen, which is the place of factory Foxconn locate in, my job is doing inspection for the brand product, so I go to the factories very often, as my opinion, this girl already 19 at least, I know chinese factory gave all the other countries people a bad impression in the before but as the newest chinese labor law appeared, the situation is getting quite better, normally, in Shenzhen basic salary for the factory labor is RMB1000(USD1=6RMB) at least, every week works 5 days, everyday 8 hours, every week can not work over 30 hours in total, the overtime work salary is RMB8, and every everyone month will have allowance , so one month the average income for factory labor is around RMB1800.

And I have to point out some misunderstand of upper replys, the girl dress in pink because she is in charge of QC, I think they are just forget to delete the pictures, all the iPhone will did inspection for all the funtion and housing before packing. on the production line some one are dress in blue, they are in charge of assembling, different dress means different position, no gender differentiate.

Someone said the assembling line worker have to bear the gas or smoke, actually not like this, all the assembling line of every seat have pipe which can exsuction all the exhaust gas, and recently more and more factories in Shenzhen have air-condition in the workshop.

But to tell the truth, most of the chair are quite poor, very uncomfortable.

Labor's working is boring, but they are very simplicity and nice, but all of them have to bear the bad temper of the manager, some managers who is not from China mainland always shouted with them very often , normally they will back home one time in one year. That's why always crowd near by Chinese new year's day.

By the way, Foxconn only do the assemble for Apple, no develop issue. and the assemble cost for one iPod as I know in Foxconn is RMB20. so you can imagine where does your money gone.

如有不明者,将随时为您解答。o(∩_∩)o...
 

haha, I never said it is a copy, it only looks very close. Mini player is smaller. I just checked Meizu is using Phillips solution and Samsung chips, while Apple is using another. For high quality music files, Meizu support FLAC/WMA loseless, while Ipod support Apple loseless. If you think it is a copy if it only looks very like, how can you judge portable digital cameras? They are all some kind of same. Ipod is unique, but it is not the all.

Koreans made the 1st MP3 in the world, Creative used be good, RCA used be good, so does Ipod. There must has a time for the replacer and none can be a forever winner.

Jobs is a good manager to satisfy the investors now. Ipod is a very good product to create a good market and gain revenue. Jobs made a big mistake before he left Apple last time, hope he can change himself, listen to others and make a better IPhone with open system.
 
in Shenzhen basic salary for the factory labor is RMB1000(USD1=6RMB) at least, every week works 5 days, everyday 8 hours, every week can not work over 30 hours in total, the overtime work salary is RMB8, and every everyone month will have allowance , so one month the average income for factory labor is around RMB1800.
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Just 3 questions:

1. 8 hours times 5 days is 40 hours, how can be "evey week can not work over 30 hours in total"?

2. I just checked the exchange rate of USD to CNY, 1USD=6.84 RMB. So their salary caculated in USD is less.

3. Suppose they can get 1,800 if they work overtime, after the basic slary RMB1,000. they can get 800 for overtime work. 1 hour over time price is 8, so they need work for 100 hours more per month for the extra 800, which means they need to work 25 hours more weekly. right?
 
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