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Alcohol
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Re: Sept. 12 invites for iPhone 5? release...

»www.theverge.com/2012/9/ ··· ts-claim
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A bizarre and troubling story has come from China today. Both The Shanghai Daily and the CNR News radio station have reported that up to several thousand Chinese students were pulled out of school and into Foxconn to "work on the iPhone 5."
Excellent. This means we will get the iphone in time so start camping outside the stores now!!!!
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said by Alcohol:

»www.theverge.com/2012/9/ ··· ts-claim

quote:
A bizarre and troubling story has come from China today. Both The Shanghai Daily and the CNR News radio station have reported that up to several thousand Chinese students were pulled out of school and into Foxconn to "work on the iPhone 5."
Excellent. This means we will get the iphone in time so start camping outside the stores now!!!!

More:

»www.shanghaidaily.com/ar ··· d=511136

THOUSANDS of students in an east China city are being forced to work at a Foxconn plant after classes were suspended at the beginning of the new semester, it has been revealed.

Students from Huai'an in Jiangsu Province were driven to a factory in the city run by Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Company after the plant couldn't find sufficient workers for the production of Apple's much-anticipated iPhone 5, they said in online posts.

A student majoring in computing at the Huaiyin Institute of Technology said 200 students from her school had been driven to the factory.

They started work on the production line last Thursday and were being paid 1,550 yuan (US$243.97) a month for working six days a week, she said.

But they had to pay hundreds of yuan for food and accommodation, she said in an online post under the name of mengniuIQ84.

Several other students from at least five colleges backed up what she said, saying they were being forced to work for 12 hours a day.

HiVolt
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Haha.. Nice forced slave work instead of education... Good Job Apple.

Alcohol
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To be fair it's not directly Apple. It's their biggest supplier Foxxcon. But Apple is partly to be blamed for not keeping watch on their biggest supplier. It's normal in the manufacturing industry to monitor the working conditions at your partners plants. Foxxcon has a history of this. Remember the suicides and the contracts forbidding people from killing themselves?
Apple reduces the business with Samsung due to the lawsuits, but continues to grow it's business with Foxxcon »news.cnet.com/8301-13579 ··· w-plant/

HiVolt
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Apple has bazillions... Why don't they build their own factory, their own fab plant? 100 billion in cash buys a lot...

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they have bazillions because they outsource...what ever they're doing...they're doing right and they shouldn't change a thing

Alcohol
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said by haroldo:

they have bazillions because they outsource...what ever they're doing...they're doing right and they shouldn't change a thing

Exactly. Why should Americans care about the inferior chinese children. Let them suffer as long as we get our new toys on time.
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said by HiVolt:

Apple has bazillions... Why don't they build their own factory, their own fab plant? 100 billion in cash buys a lot...

Building a factory doesn't make sense, but they should look at how the auto industry manages their suppliers in asia. It's very systematic. They have random visits to their suppliers (suppliers only find out on the morning of). Even if the supplier isn't exclusively doing your products, they still get to dictate working conditions and safety standards.. Or they lose their contract.

Ofcourse the working conditions are a lot harsher for the auto industry but I don't see why Apple can't keep a team in China that monitors Foxxcon.

Chinese kids are being pulled out of school to work on the iphone. There is no way Apple doesn't know about this. But i'm sure their PR team is going to spread the same bullshit lies like they always do.

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said by Alcohol:

said by haroldo:

they have bazillions because they outsource...what ever they're doing...they're doing right and they shouldn't change a thing

Exactly. Why should Americans care about the inferior chinese children. Let them suffer as long as we get our new toys on time.

.. and Apple get's their profits and shareholders get their slice.

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said by Alcohol:

said by HiVolt:

Apple has bazillions... Why don't they build their own factory, their own fab plant? 100 billion in cash buys a lot...

Building a factory doesn't make sense, but they should look at how the auto industry manages their suppliers in asia. It's very systematic. They have random visits to their suppliers (suppliers only find out on the morning of). Even if the supplier isn't exclusively doing your products, they still get to dictate working conditions and safety standards.. Or they lose their contract.

Ofcourse the working conditions are a lot harsher for the auto industry but I don't see why Apple can't keep a team in China that monitors Foxxcon.

Chinese kids are being pulled out of school to work on the iphone. There is no way Apple doesn't know about this. But i'm sure their PR team is going to spread the same bullshit lies like they always do.

Looks like the number is 32,000 children if anyone wants an update to the story.

»www.forbes.com/sites/pet ··· -school/

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Customers probably just want to know when their phones will arrive.
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said by Alcohol:

Looks like the number is 32,000 children if anyone wants an update to the story.

»www.forbes.com/sites/pet ··· -school/

The article says 'students' not 'children'. The NY Times article linked in your link suggests the students are young adults.

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said by Riamen:

said by Alcohol:

Looks like the number is 32,000 children if anyone wants an update to the story.

»www.forbes.com/sites/pet ··· -school/

The article says 'students' not 'children'. The NY Times article linked in your link suggests the students are young adults.

You're right. I assumed students were young from this line in the article

As Lindstrom concluded, you love your iPhone and if JP Morgan Chase is right, eight million of you won’t let a little thing — like costing 32,000 Chinese students their education — keep you from spending $600 to smear your fingerprints all over your loved one’s glass screen.

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Was late to the party, already posted.