Worker in Chinese iPhone factory committs suicide over missing prototype

4. driv14 posted on 22 Jul 2009, 13:03 0 0

Your mocking a man who has taken his own life.. grow up you sick bastard..

6. vzw fanman posted on 22 Jul 2009, 13:39 0 0

hahha

16. behold--me posted on 23 Jul 2009, 14:57 0 0

dumbass...he took his own life

20. volvo posted on 24 Jul 2009, 02:58 0 0

lmao. every story i look at, u have commented on!

21. sidb.me posted on 24 Jul 2009, 07:45 0 0

Well said!

7. Truth posted on 22 Jul 2009, 14:05 0 0

It isn't Apple's fault, the guy was obviously unstable if he leaps to his death. Apple should have probably asked that no beatings take place though. They should pull out of any relationship with this company because of this though.

15. remixfa posted on 23 Jul 2009, 11:23 0 0

its apples product so its thier repsoncibility. things are different in other countries and people are treated worse in places like that then they are in the civilized world. so yea, its apples responciiblity. they wanted to cut costs and went 3rd world, they allow their "employees" to be treated that way. go apple.

5. Dood posted on 22 Jul 2009, 13:28 0 0

Or a sword app for sepeku. iPhone with an actual katana FTW!!! Oh...too soon? ((and I realize those are japanese things...not chinese things...))

13. Quemical posted on 23 Jul 2009, 07:10 0 0

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

11. alux0417 posted on 22 Jul 2009, 23:29 0 0

dude, it's a contractor, not outsourcing. there's a difference. it's a legal business strategy: first to cut costs and second to delegate business processes to the specialists.

17. Kiltlifter posted on 23 Jul 2009, 16:15 0 0

The only reason they are specialists now is because in order to manufactur anything in china, You as a company forfeit your patents, trade secrets. You also have to show them everything that makes your patent work, have evidence and duplicate it for them in a lab. If you were to implement the same business practices in the United states, don't allow a union to form, and pay a decent wage it would be more productive than in China. The average US and Japanese worker given the exact same education and resources as a chinese worker would produce 3 times the output. "American" Car companies like ford GM and Crysler outsource to "specials" anywhere from 60-90% of the vehicle. Whereas companies like Toyota and Honda have 40-80% of the parts for their "Japanese" car manufactured in the United States.... which are better quality cars? Definitely not the "American" models. Think of how much better these products would be if they were handled by reals specialists. It is all about costs... Outsource entire divisions to other countries saves a few millions... that's it. And the people who get these millions are the already rich and overly paid executives that end up getting bailouts anyways when they drive their companies to the ground. Next time you feel like trying to be an expert about a topic you know nothing about, post on a medical journal or something.

18. Kiltlifter posted on 23 Jul 2009, 16:18 0 0

I did correct the bad grammar and mispelling, but the post didn't go thru the right way... for that i apologize.

19. Kiltlifter posted on 23 Jul 2009, 16:19 0 0

*MISSPELLING!!!!!! AHAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!1

10. gomets15217 posted on 22 Jul 2009, 20:43 0 0

read that over again, slowlyyyyy. spell check and proofread next time bro

14. trentsinmypants posted on 23 Jul 2009, 10:03 0 0

Its China.....

22. Dood posted on 25 Jul 2009, 16:24 0 0

Seriously...