Usual excuses. About a dozen of America based car assembly factories have to trouble finding people to do low cost repetitive labor.
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Riot Shuts Down Foxconn Plant, Impact on iPhone 5 Production Unclear
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not Samsung, who also uses Foxconn and has recently been cited for the same issues. And sometimes worse. The Apple lines were said to have 15-17 year olds that lied about their age, supposedly the Samsung line has kids as young as 10. But where are the investigations, the huge headlines etc
They aren't APPLE WORKERS.
They're a company that Apple, and others, use to assemble. Apple Really Doesn't Have Control.
Actually - there were investigations. Samsung (just like Apple) will be auditing the plants they use - and end contracts if the plants are found to be in violation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/05/samsung-accused-exploiting-workers-china
What part about that don't you understand. The very basis of capitalism is the ability to freely negotiate "bargaining" with vendors for the best price. Therefore allowing my company and companies like Apple to make a profit as they see fit. Paying people better and demanding Apple build factories in the US is about as communist as it gets. Paying uneducated, lazy white trash that all bitch about $8 an hour vs educating themselves and learning any sort of trade skill is the problem in the states. The government basically offers free college education via student loans to those less fortunate but they would rather bitch and moan and drink/smoke up any money they have then get up and better themselves.
Just to make sure you fully understand the definition...
Definition of CAPITALISM
: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
Priviate decision... aka Apple gets to choose where they have their products built. Not blackmailed into some unions workers BS desire to make $20, $30 or $40+ an hour.
I very much support the ability to have any number of companies "bid" to work for my company. The unions took that ability away in the US and clear proof how that fails is the fact Obama motors needed our tax dollars to bail them out because the union has these companies by the balls. Apple cannot compete in a free market by paying high school drop outs $40+ an hour union wages with lifetime union benefits. The very basis of a free market allows Apple to outsource labor and the only ones to blame are the good ol boy's in the USA supporting unions.
Foxconn produces components for many companies, not just Apple. Foxconn workers are not Apple employees.
If you think Apple couldn't affect how Foxconn treats its employees you're naive. In addition, Apple HAS given Foxconn additional money which was reportedly to go to giving its employees either better conditions and/or salary increases (I forget which or if it was both).
Not that I would put translation problems or your other suggestion past possible .. but if you consider the unibody aluminumframe the "backplate" .. then there would be a headphone jack in there.
I think, and would hope that the guards beat anyone causing even a minute delay in the production of the IPhone 5.
Lets hope some kind of investigation can identify the real cause of this issue. I don't really trust those so called past reports on the conditions of the plants in china. Folks don't riot for no reason. Sooner or later people will rise to defend human rights. Just hope china doesn't use its military to enforce the labor at the factories.
Am surprised at allot of the responses here more concerned about the production of the iphone than the people making them. Pretty sad.
Am surprised at allot of the responses here more concerned about the production of the iphone than the people making them. Pretty sad.
Aha. And I am sure you, and another 500M RED fanboys get a new model every two years. After reading most of the posts here, the majority of you would fail to properly close the box at the assembly line, or put the sticker on it.
A very revealing look into the culture, policies and procedures, security or lack thereof, and the mood in and around Foxconn.
Infrastructure excuses again. Build the infrastructure: even more jobs for Americans.
Actually, according to Haffington post, Americans are twice more efficient:
"U.S. factory workers do have one critical advantage over others: They're really productive. In fact, U.S. factory workers produce $73.45 per hour in output, one-third more than German factory workers and twice as much as workers in Taiwan, according to the BLS.
Chinese and U.S. workers differ in another important respect as well. Factory workers in China are more than three times more likely to get killed at work than their American counterparts."