Report: Apple Demands Suppliers Switch to Robotics for Manufacturing

[Shirasaki]

Like it or not, automation is the future.

Automation to replace human eventually, automating the entire earth.

 

[hajime]

Next, Apple' CEO to be replaced by a robot with Steve's mind.

 

[Big_D]

Apple wants to reduce the number of potential customers by making those that used to make their products jobless? Okay.

 

[svish]

Not surprised. All factories will be increasing their use of robots and automation. It will be eventually cheaper for Apple.

 

[SunMac]

Next, Apple' CEO to be replaced by a robot with Steve's mind.

I think this will really happen soon.
Siri: Steve Is Really Inside

 

[Ceecephous]

Apparently, you can go lower than paying 50$/month and a daily bowl of rice. Foxcon should take lessons from amazon warehouses, where people work with diapers on.

 

[rafark]

At some point they'll have to ask who will be left that can afford to buy new iToys to keep the coffers growing?

It’s an interesting paradox because all those thousands of workers are consumers too. If robots do all the work, who’s going to be able to afford the products they build?

 

[W2u7Yw4HaD]

See, slavery thwarts innovation. China has near slave conditions for factories and it makes human labor cheaper than innovation in the short term.

To bring manufacturing back to developed countries, automation is a requirement as there simply aren’t enough people to do menial repetitive tasks for no pay.

Same with farming. Europe has more automation in farming because there aren’t as many people available to slave in the fields. In the Americas, there are plenty, either in their home countries, or as exploited “migrants” the US and Canada.

Just so you're aware, in Canada we have a seasonal guest worker program for farm workers. Where people can come from select countries, stay for 8 months and then go home on these work visa's.... It seems odd that USA can't come up with such a good scheme? So after looking it up, there is a program under H-2A Temporary Agricultural Workers Program which allows this. However the limits probably need raising, since only 300k were issued which probably isn't enough.

 

[TechRunner]

Automation has felt inevitable for the manufacturing sector for some time. Watching the cultural shift/fallout will be interesting if not downright scary.

 

[ironsword]

If they bring manufacturing to the USA, automation is probably one of the only ways.