Cost. People in India can work for $10 per day (8-10 hours) and some people work for $100 per month (30days x 8-10 hours). In China, labour is much cheaper than in India. In which state american will work for that low ?
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Tim Cook and Lisa Jackson's India Trips Continue With Cricket Games, Bollywood Stars and 'Solar Mamas'
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The Barefoot College (Social Works and Research Centre (SWRC)) is a wonderfully 'out of the box' model. Instead of spending years and rupees educating illiterate grandmothers to the point where they might be equipped to learn electronics, metal work or leather work in a classroom, they 'just do it'. They engage immediately in workshops and real projects serving real people. Women from different continents who have no written language and share no spoken language get trained in cohorts 'on the job', so to speak. How? The instructors, if I may call them that, use puppets. The puppets don't teach, they demonstrate. Puppets have the advantage of being equipped with as little or as much race, class, caste and of course gender identity as will allow and encourage diverse groups to work together. Notably, all of the puppeteers are male, though many of the puppets present as female.
This is brilliant in the sense that it is complete driven by the immediacy of giving women sustainable skills that will serve and remain in their villages. Solar lighting, for example, enables children to study at night, when it is too dark to work in the fields and shops, and it keeps vermin out of the homes and beds at night when they sleep. So it's a multiple win. This so did NOT come out of a university, an NGO or a government. We simply have not learned enough to think this way and leverage the intelligence these illiterate women already possess. And we need more of this 'thinking differently'. Perhaps Apple has supplied a little of it.
Just as outside of university, NGO or government, it's perhaps an equally large 'thinking differently' challenge for Apple to donate iPads into the SWRC model. What is the story? What happens here? Is there self-organization? How can the iPads best serve the women when there is no Internet service, as is the case in many of the remote villages where they live in India, Africa and Latin America? This is an exciting development and may require the same sort of 'thinking differently' as began in 1972 with Bunker Roy. I wonder who is writing about it.
This is brilliant in the sense that it is complete driven by the immediacy of giving women sustainable skills that will serve and remain in their villages. Solar lighting, for example, enables children to study at night, when it is too dark to work in the fields and shops, and it keeps vermin out of the homes and beds at night when they sleep. So it's a multiple win. This so did NOT come out of a university, an NGO or a government. We simply have not learned enough to think this way and leverage the intelligence these illiterate women already possess. And we need more of this 'thinking differently'. Perhaps Apple has supplied a little of it.
Just as outside of university, NGO or government, it's perhaps an equally large 'thinking differently' challenge for Apple to donate iPads into the SWRC model. What is the story? What happens here? Is there self-organization? How can the iPads best serve the women when there is no Internet service, as is the case in many of the remote villages where they live in India, Africa and Latin America? This is an exciting development and may require the same sort of 'thinking differently' as began in 1972 with Bunker Roy. I wonder who is writing about it.
The refurbished business will get big because of the upgrade plan that Apple offers. Whoever gets into that plan will be giving back an used phone to Apple and Apple needs to sell it some third world country and they have zeroed in on India!
If you really can't figure out why the US can't support factories like Foxconn-with a half million workers under one roof; I suggest you study the industrial revolution, the strides we've made since then of transitioning from a labor based economy to a service based economy, population masses across the world, pollution laws across the world, & how much factories of that size produce, the fact that companies can't control where their suppliers build factories; thus if no such suppliers of a particular part exist in a particular country, it is impossible to purchase them there.... & lastly, basic maths.
really - find me that many skilled worker ready to work for that wage - if u dont know then dont do BS... CEO's are smarter than u... mind it..
I'm all for Tim's efforts, but only if India is willing to officially end the easy business of the many scammers there.
From "Windows Technical Support" to "we are the IRS and we are going to send out a warrant for your arrest at the end of this call", this is a decidedly UNFRIENDLY country to the US and other countries, many of which enjoy a large Apple presence and source of gainful jobs.
If India wants a profitable relationship with US citizens, then India needs to take the first step toward a more friendly relationship with the same US citizens.
Tim should voice this, as should the US congress and president. Good friends make for good business partners!
From "Windows Technical Support" to "we are the IRS and we are going to send out a warrant for your arrest at the end of this call", this is a decidedly UNFRIENDLY country to the US and other countries, many of which enjoy a large Apple presence and source of gainful jobs.
If India wants a profitable relationship with US citizens, then India needs to take the first step toward a more friendly relationship with the same US citizens.
Tim should voice this, as should the US congress and president. Good friends make for good business partners!
It is 33 celcius here. But with the humidity and all it really feels like 45 celcius
