• Apple CEO visits Foxconn's iPhone plant in China
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[quote]SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple Inc's [URL="http://www.wtkr.com/topic/economy-business-finance/computing-information-technology-industry/tim-cook-PEBSL000519.topic"]Tim Cook[/URL], on his first trip to [URL="http://www.wtkr.com/topic/intl/china/beijing-%28china%29-PLGEO100100602011286.topic"]China[/URL] as the chief executive officer, has visited an [URL="http://www.wtkr.com/topic/services-shopping/electronic-devices/apple-iphone-PRDCES00000002.topic"]iPhone[/URL] production plant run by the Foxconn Technology Group, which is being accused of improper labor practices. China is the world's largest mobile market and already Apple's second-biggest market overall, but its growth there is clouded by issues ranging from a contested [URL="http://www.wtkr.com/topic/services-shopping/electronic-devices/apple-ipad-PRDCES000000029.topic"]iPad[/URL] trademark to treatment of local labor. Picture handouts dated March 28 and e-mailed to Reuters show Cook seen smiling and meeting workers in the newly built Foxconn ZhengzhouTechnology Park in the north central province of Hebei. The facility employs 120,000 people, the handouts said. Foxconn is a major part of Apple's global supply chain, assembling most of its iPhones and iPads, but has been hit by a string of worker suicides in recent years that activist groups blame on tough working conditions. The group is the [URL="http://www.wtkr.com/topic/intl/taiwan-PLGEO00000147.topic"]Taiwan[/URL] parent of Hong Kong-listed Foxconn International Holdings and Taiwan-listed Hon Hai Precision. Cook took the reins at Apple in August after the death of the firm's visionary founder, [URL="http://www.wtkr.com/topic/economy-business-finance/computing-information-technology-industry/steve-jobs-PEBSL000057.topic"]Steve Jobs[/URL]. His closely guarded itinerary has included talks with Vice Premier Li Keqiang, Beijing's mayor and a visit to one of Apple's two stores in the capital. On Wednesday, state media reported that [URL="http://www.wtkr.com/topic/intl/china-PLGEO00000014.topic"]China's[/URL] vice premier promised Cook the country would boost intellectual property protection. "To be more open to the outside is a condition for China to transform its economic development, expand domestic demands and conduct technological innovation," the official Xinhua news agency cited Vice Premier Li Keqiang as saying. Apple has tie-ups with China Telecom and [URL="http://www.wtkr.com/topic/economy-business-finance/china-unicom-limited-ORCRP003217.topic"]China Unicom[/URL] to sell its iPhone, with the only other Chinese carrier, [URL="http://www.wtkr.com/topic/economy-business-finance/china-mobile-limited-ORCRP003201.topic"]China Mobile[/URL], the country's biggest mobile operator, also looking to clinch a deal. Apple is embroiled in a long-running dispute with Proview - a financially weak technology company that claims to have registered the iPad trademark - that is making its way through Chinese courts and threatens to disrupt iPad sales.[/quote] [url]http://www.wtkr.com/business/sns-rt-us-apple-chinabre82s05x-20120328,0,4203449.story[/url]
"Oh god, all these sub-humans. Please don't let them touch me... :( "
I went to see subhuman conditions which I'm funding, before it was cool.
Reminds me of kim jong il visiting ailing factories
[QUOTE=Conscript;35343123]Reminds me of kim jong il visiting ailing factories[/QUOTE] Apple = hipster Kim Jong Il
at least he's doing more than steve seemed to ever do about the foxconn situation
I bet foxconn hide all the bad stuff while he's visiting.
[QUOTE=shian;35343421]I bet foxconn hide all the bad stuff while he's visiting.[/QUOTE] for you to hide the bad stuff, there has to be good stuff there in the first place unless they're just going to throw a big white sheet over the entire complex and say it dissapeared
[QUOTE=shian;35343421]I bet foxconn hide all the bad stuff while he's visiting.[/QUOTE] They probably just tell their workers to not complain and look extremely happy or they'll lose their job. There's always thousands of other workers to put things together.
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;35344064]They probably just tell their workers to not complain and look extremely happy or they'll lose their job. There's always thousands of other workers to put things together.[/QUOTE] You'd be surprised at how true that could be. Kind of like how when you're in school, the teacher says "OH MY GOD, GUYS BEHAVE, THE INSPECTION IS AT SCHOOL TODAY! YOU'LL GET BAD MARKS IF HE SEES ANY OF THIS!!!". In the end, I have NEVER EVER seen anyone from inspection or anything of the sort...
[QUOTE=dass;35344408]You'd be surprised at how true that could be. Kind of like how when you're in school, the teacher says "OH MY GOD, GUYS BEHAVE, THE INSPECTION IS AT SCHOOL TODAY! YOU'LL GET BAD MARKS IF HE SEES ANY OF THIS!!!". In the end, I have NEVER EVER seen anyone from inspection or anything of the sort...[/QUOTE] I'm not surprised at all. In a way, it's expected from them... sadly.
Then again, Foxconn probably got the heads up he was coming like a month prior, so they had time to clean everything up and get ready for the day he arrives. If he were to show up randomly out of the blue, I'm sure it would be a completely different story.
[QUOTE=M24;35343333]at least he's doing more than steve seemed to ever do about the foxconn situation[/QUOTE] he's doing more than any fucking CEO of the hundreds of companies that use foxconn for manufacturing ever did
If Tim Cook somehow put an end to the horrid work conditions in foxconn then I would have so much more respect for Apple. And that would be a shit load since I have almost none.
The fact that they could afford to improve worker conditions tenfold makes it all the more sickening.
[QUOTE=shian;35343421]I bet foxconn hide all the bad stuff while he's visiting.[/QUOTE] I like to clean my house before guests come over too.
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;35346655]I'm not surprised at all. In a way, it's expected from them... sadly.[/QUOTE] Wait, expected from teachers, or Foxconn?
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