Rare inside look at Foxconn reveals how Apple products are made (video)
0. phoneArena posted on 20 Feb 2012, 05:59
Here’s something you’ve never seen before - Foxconn from the inside. Famous for making the best selling Apple gadgets, the Chinese factory employes over 200,000 people…
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2. theBankRobber posted on 20 Feb 2012, 07:09 3 1
Did he just say work 10 hours a day at less then $1.50 an hour?? No wonder apple has so much money and can't bring work back to the US.
9. cellgeek82 posted on 20 Feb 2012, 09:02 2 0
But is that US dollars? US dollars in some counties is a lot of money. Someone help me with this subject. I really don't know what equivalent of currency they're getting paid.
10. remixfa posted on 20 Feb 2012, 09:07 5 6
according to foxcon they make around 30-35 cents an hour, way less than that $1.50. They have also admitted to 24+ hr shifts.
What a nice uber positive spin on this place. I wonder how much apple pays for this type of marketing.
The FLA has already been found to be corrupt and working for apple. They are not unbiased.
i cant wait to see all the mindless izombies come rushing in and bring their "i told u so's" like there was real truth to this little blurb.
15. ZEUS.the.thunder.god posted on 20 Feb 2012, 10:45 3 3
totally agree with you and i hope i dont get another love mail from PA for this lol
16. dreammixer posted on 20 Feb 2012, 10:48 5 2
Funny how you believe anything negative and discredit everything else. Also you use a Microsoft pc right? Well Microsoft uses Foxconn too and their factory just had a mass suicide pact.
You're a hypocrite and a troll
24. remixfa posted on 20 Feb 2012, 12:08 2 6
Microsoft does not use foxconn to manufacture Windows SOFTWARE.. lol.
My PC was made by Dell, in india. I checked the serial numbers. Generally I make my own PCs though.
Again, for the 400th time, I have not bought a single thing from foxconn since learning of their tradgedies. It is part of my decision process now. Sorry you dont have enough mindset to do the same.
26. dreammixer posted on 20 Feb 2012, 12:19 4 1
Microsoft that makes windows software is the same company that makes Xbox's in Foxconn. You're contributing to their profit by using their software. Since you're a man of principle you should stop using Windows and make a stand. Also you should buy only American made clothes. Nothing from Mexico, China etc due to poor working conditions there. Do you drive a gas powered car? May want to reconsider that too.
32. remixfa posted on 20 Feb 2012, 13:52 1 4
you have got to be taco, as those are the dumbest and least logical jumps I've seen in quite a while.
my arguement is to not support goods manufactured by such means. software developed by Americans and made by an automatic press have nothing to do with that.
the biggest purpetrators of clothing abuses are the biggest name brands. tell me who makes clothes ethically with proof and ill buy them
what the hell does buying a gas powered car have to do with anything?
get a better arguement
35. gallitoking posted on 20 Feb 2012, 14:07 3 0
Foxconn manufactures products for companies including:
(country of headquarters in parentheses)
Acer Inc. (Taiwan)[32]
Amazon.com (United States)[33]
Apple Inc. (United States)[34]
Cisco (United States)[35]
Dell (United States)[36]
Gateway (United States)[37]
Hewlett-Packard (United States)[38]
Intel (United States)[39]
Microsoft (United States)[40]
Motorola Mobility (United States)[36]
Nintendo (Japan)[41]
Nokia (Finland)[34]
Samsung (South Korea)[42]
Sony (Japan)[43]
Toshiba (Japan) [44]
Vizio (United States)[45]
courtesy of Wikipedia.. Remix
36. remixfa posted on 20 Feb 2012, 14:27 3 3
courtesy of "you have pulled that list a half dozen times and I'm going to give you the same answer "
the ONLY thing I have on that list is my xboxes. and since I got them at launch I had no idea about worker conditions at foxconn.
my Samsung phone was made by Samsung at a Samsung plant and my dell computer was made in India at a non foxconn plant. you can look your devices up by the serial numbers on them.
40. gallitoking posted on 20 Feb 2012, 16:19 2 0
ok whatever makes you happy... remix... I will be happy to take that Xbox from you since it was made in evil Foxconn..
42. dreammixer posted on 20 Feb 2012, 16:35 2 0
and your Dell laptop lol. Wow just wow you really don't see how stupid you look.
45. remixfa posted on 20 Feb 2012, 18:05 2 2
hey taco.. it has to be taco.. even has the same lack of reading comprehension.
I dont have a dell laptop, its a desktop made in India and not by foxconn. I just said that. u think dell and all these companies use just one producer for all their products? lololol. sad sad taco.
21. Lucas777 posted on 20 Feb 2012, 11:43 6 1
do u have any proof for ur claims? or are they just responses to facts u cant handle…
additionally, why is this all focused on apple when many many many other tech companies all use foxconn? and according to this article, these are even some of the better conditions…
i feel sorry for the workers, but honestly its not americas problem, nor apples, nor any other tech companies… its china's problem and if they think it is so horrible then they need to fix it…
23. dreammixer posted on 20 Feb 2012, 12:03 3 3
I don't think remix has any interest in facts that don't support his irrational hatred of Apple.
25. remixfa posted on 20 Feb 2012, 12:08 6 5
seriously, has anyone at PA run a check on dreammixer for taco-in-disguise?
27. remixfa posted on 20 Feb 2012, 12:22 3 7
" announced that it had raised the wages of junior level factory workers in Shenzhen from 1,800RMB (US$290) to 2,200RMB ($349) a month."
"According to China Daily again, the move for having factories move inland is because it has become too expensive to continue in Shenzhen. The pay rate at Foxconn Hebei (in north China) is only 1,080RMB a month."
(1,080.00 RMB = 171.525 USD)
" In the Chengdu facility — where Foxconn employees put together the iPad — staff could expect a grueling 80 to 100 hours of overtime, on top of the 174 regular work hours."
lets do some math
174 working hours + 100 overtime hours (and they get no differential) = 274 hrs.
349 a month (on the brand new payscale) / 274 hrs =
They just got a raise to $1.27 an hour. And thats at the "expensive" plant. According to multiple reports, Foxconn is trying to move to interior china where it can keep labor prices low. This is the factories where the iphone and xbox are made
$172 a month / 274 hrs a month = $0.63 AFTER the raise. THIS is the Chendu factory where your iproducts are made.
Why dont you try taking your blinders off and actually doing your own research for once? or are you too afraid of what logic and truth will show you?
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/foxconn-no-suicide-pledge/
http://kotaku.com/5886469/the-people-who-make-your-game-consoles-still-make-next-to-nothing
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_joelinchina/all/1
28. Lucas777 posted on 20 Feb 2012, 12:46 4 1
okay first off i was asking for proof that fla was overridden with apple corruption, which you obviously did not supply..
i am well aware of how horrible things are in china-- very similar to industrial revolution working conditions… i dont see why u think i dont see this… i simply said this people have better conditions than others in china, which they do… a dollar might not seem like a lot per hour, but it doesnt take much to live in china-- they have a better job than many chinese
again, i dont doubt things are bad in china as u blindly think i do, but i do think it is china's problem.. not americas… china will sort itself out but it is not for us to interfere with their problems
31. remixfa posted on 20 Feb 2012, 13:45 1 4
that was provided in the last article about the positive reports by another member. it's not my fault u didn't read it, refuse to educate yourself on the issue by a simple Google search, nor is it my responcibility to continually provide the same links over and over again because you and the other blind apple supporters can't remember one thread to the next.
