Brilliant, funny/scary piece by Andrew Leonard in Salon.com:
One iPhone to rule them all
Hardware techies at Apple are regularly sent from California for intense two-week shifts to the city-sized Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China where iPods are made and tested. Internally at Apple this is known as "being sent to Mordor."
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/?last_story=/tech/htww/2007/09/14/sent_to_mordor/
One iPhone to rule them all
Hardware techies at Apple are regularly sent from California for intense two-week shifts to the city-sized Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China where iPods are made and tested. Internally at Apple this is known as "being sent to Mordor."
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/?last_story=/tech/htww/2007/09/14/sent_to_mordor/