When asked to move assembly to the US, Apple has always been very clear: they couldn't be competitive if they treated workers with dignity.
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Angry Protests Break Out at Key iPhone Factory in China [Updated]
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Change? Howso? Become more like them? We are giving them jobs. Let them rise up and overthrow the CCP. Let them change.
Apple always has an excuse at least when they screw people over.
Exactly. Insurrection is cool when it’s not us.
India isn't governed by the CCP, it is a far better solution. Send them the $ and the jobs.
Nah I mean little things like „booohooo. My XY got 0,72 Cent more expensive, boohooo I had to wait a whole day for my order to arrive!“
We are giving money to their "owners", not to them. They'll never overthrow the Party.
Don’t worry guys, there’s no charger with the iPhone. They’re actually really great guys. And they’re probably making a profit off $2000 iPhones. Hope Tim Cook gets enough of a bonus this year.
Where’s your humanity, morality, and ethics?
If they start caring about human rights and paying Chinese workers Western wages and benefits, then they might as well move their entire production back to the US and be done with it.
I'm sure those "slaves" would be happier. Jobless, but happier.
I'm sure those "slaves" would be happier. Jobless, but happier.
Maybe China is a little different from the rest of the world, Google that.
🤣 For a minute there I thought you were serious, then I came to my senses and realized you obviously know who Tim Cook is. Great schtick!
Apple’s mouth is where the money is!
Timothy Donald Apple won’t be amused that Foxconn can’t handle the guaranteed slavery.
Lol you’re funny wiidsmoker go light up another one…did Tim once scold you for not doing your job and now you’re an apple hater?
I am afraid that it’s time for Apple to leave China. Maybe not as a country that they sell in but at least as one that they manufacture in. First, it’s clear that China is not allowing Apple to meet their very high human rights standards. Apple must put people over sales. Second, it is not working. They are not able to receive the quantity, and I would say quality, of iPhones that they need. Look I understand that everyone would love for Apple to make them in the United States. That’s not going to happen. Not without an automated factory somewhere. But there are plenty of other nations that would be happy and thrilled to take over the role of manufacturing the Apple products.
But as you are concentrating this, please remember that it is not just about the final assembly part. They also have to solve the parts manufacturing problems. Leaving China is a very difficult and expensive process, but I believe that it has become clear that it is time for Apple to make the right decision. Both for workers and for their customers. I also believe that it is the right decision for them.
But as you are concentrating this, please remember that it is not just about the final assembly part. They also have to solve the parts manufacturing problems. Leaving China is a very difficult and expensive process, but I believe that it has become clear that it is time for Apple to make the right decision. Both for workers and for their customers. I also believe that it is the right decision for them.
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I noticed Tim Cook keeps thumbing down posts in this thread from persons who empathize with the workers. It’s sad that people have to go through all this for something as basic as food. Apple has at least over 200 billion in hard cold cash. At least pay them, geez. I keep telling you all, Apple’s humanity and liberal arts stuff is just pure veneer.
2023 might actually be a year of unraveling for Apple. It’s too bad, because I have a lot of money invested in them, but I don’t want to associate with them on this level. Treat these people who are vital to your business success better. Todd and Cindy at the space ship in Cupertino walking around in a circle is not gonna do that.
2023 might actually be a year of unraveling for Apple. It’s too bad, because I have a lot of money invested in them, but I don’t want to associate with them on this level. Treat these people who are vital to your business success better. Todd and Cindy at the space ship in Cupertino walking around in a circle is not gonna do that.
Apple, the company that sets the standard of how to treat employees well, according to Apple. Yes, they are employees, just because FoxConn is in the middle does not excuse anything.
Quite sad that so many of you joke about the clearly poor treatment of workers.
Quite sad that so many of you joke about the clearly poor treatment of workers.
Foxconn should have seen this coming and prepared for their factories to have luxury accomodation available for lockdowns, and warned their employees that it could be legally necessary to use it at some point. Or they could also have prepared ages ago an agreement with local Party government to have a plan for what to do when this happens, put a plan in place.
It took only two posts for someone to blame this on Apple.
Of course it does. In an internet full if absurdities that suggestion is still rich, LMAO! FoxConn is a company.
Seriously. I’m trying to imagine myself or my family working in those conditions—it’s awful. And for what? So Apple can make even more ludicrous amounts of money, and I can replace the perfectly good iPhone I bought the year prior? If Apple doesn’t start ‘voting with their dollars’ then I will. You’d hope it wouldn’t come to that with a company that talks the talk like Apple does, but the reality speaks for itself. And in the worst case scenario, the world doesn’t need an iPhone 14 Pro this holiday season, and certainly not at the expense of exploiting people.