cookie121 Posted May 26, 2010 Report Posted May 26, 2010 Blood on you hands! BBC News - Taiwan iPhone-maker Foxconn opens doors after deaths Quote
avspider Posted May 26, 2010 Report Posted May 26, 2010 Blood on you hands! BBC News - Taiwan iPhone-maker Foxconn opens doors after deaths With a workforce of 400 000 I think they do make electronic items for lots of other big names. Quote
cwatson Posted May 26, 2010 Report Posted May 26, 2010 Yeah your htc blackberry nokia or whatever is probably made there too :-p 400,000 employees gotta have some suicidal nutters specially with a job that dull!! Quote
cookie121 Posted May 26, 2010 Author Report Posted May 26, 2010 granted, but the last 12 mths the market has been dominated by apple products and increased demand means increased pressure on a presumably dictatorial work practices to make targets, with the imminent release of the ipad and also the iphone 4g one assumes workers are protesting in the only way they can!! Yes we should hang our heads capitalism is our freedom, but our commie buvvers don't enjoy such freedom why western based multi-nationals are reaping the benefits of their sweat & tears! on a side i'd love to know what the unit cost of an ipad is??? Quote
Morb Posted May 26, 2010 Report Posted May 26, 2010 on a side i'd love to know what the unit cost of an ipad is??? I bet you're great at parties! Quote
Morb Posted May 26, 2010 Report Posted May 26, 2010 on a side i'd love to know what the unit cost of an ipad is??? I bet you're great at parties! Quote
Zotty Posted May 27, 2010 Report Posted May 27, 2010 (edited) manufactures mobile phones for Apple Inc and many other top brands. stop... rewind.. stop the hate and feel the love!. its not the item.. its the money made! no more no less.. do you REALLY think where ever they make a lot of your kite equipment is any better?.. and indeed a lot of items you would use in normal everyday life!. personally i think you should be locked in a room with your Idemons to thrash it out :D Edited May 27, 2010 by Zotty Quote
GaRRy Posted May 27, 2010 Report Posted May 27, 2010 Hope you dont own a game console Foxconn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia You do wonder why Apple got singled out for a name check Quote
crut Posted May 27, 2010 Report Posted May 27, 2010 Hope you dont own a game console Foxconn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia You do wonder why Apple got singled out for a name check Because they are high profile, doing well and have big product launches. A lot easier to target something much more in the public eye. Quote
Zotty Posted May 27, 2010 Report Posted May 27, 2010 Because they are high profile, doing well and have big product launches. A lot easier to target something much more in the public eye. hate/slate the success story type of thang.. Quote
GaRRy Posted May 27, 2010 Report Posted May 27, 2010 Oh I knew the answer it was a retorical question. Quote
Cafe.Racer Posted May 27, 2010 Report Posted May 27, 2010 400,000 in one plant? UK office of stats says that the UK suicide rate has fallen since 1998, and quotes the 2007 rate (lowest) as 16.8 per 100,000 for men, 5 per 100,000 women. By my maths that makes the UK rate 67.2 out of 400,000 for men, and 20 out of 400,000 for women. We should all go and live in a comunist state and be exploited by Foxconn/Apple http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/sui0109.pdf Quote
ukspeedtraps Posted May 27, 2010 Report Posted May 27, 2010 I hang my head in shame all the time because I own an Apple, it is terrable that my Apple never crashes and most of the PC's around me do... I hate being the odd one out.. Quote
Spock Posted May 27, 2010 Report Posted May 27, 2010 there would be less people giving even less of a crap if it was some brand you had never heard of that was singled out. either way it is a disgrace. what we should do is let the workforce move over to the uk and pay them the minimum wage. this would help boost our economy instead of turning them into a superpower. Quote
PieGuy Posted May 27, 2010 Report Posted May 27, 2010 I hang my head in shame all the time because I own an Apple, it is terrable that my Apple never crashes and most of the PC's around me do... I hate being the odd one out.. I use both regularly and have owned both - I can safely say i've had macs wank up more times than pc's ever have. Granted one needs more maintainance than the other, but at least I can right click on my pc without causing the fucking calander and some virtual sticky notes I like to write when im drunk to pop up. I sware to god if 'PENIS LMFAO' appears once more when i'm trying to do something important, i'll erm.. probably realise i'm waging a pointless personal war and go and do my work on a pc instead. Quote
vibro100 Posted May 27, 2010 Report Posted May 27, 2010 Blood on you hands! BBC News - Taiwan iPhone-maker Foxconn opens doors after deaths Is there an app for that??? Quote
The Geoff Posted May 27, 2010 Report Posted May 27, 2010 Oh big deal. So games machines and phones and t-shirts are make by poorly paid, poorly treated people in horrendous conditions. So what? At the end of the day the important thing is that these things are really, really cheap for us to buy. Quote
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