Shenzhen factory tours - how the Chinese produce the $55 tablets
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Playlist: [url]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL071B6B2FD368114F[/url]
Allwinner Boxchip A13 production
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfyAjkPIYyc[/media]
Speaker production
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fcmbHMnqbo[/media]
Mele factory tour (ARM-based set-top boxes)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSxl4dQzYYQ[/media]
MK802 Android-based "HDMI stick" production
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkR6_7cw4p8[/media]
Hongda laptop factory, building low-end notebooks
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUBfSIp4mpc[/media]
There's a lot more shit on the playlist, I just tried to pick some good ones.
Nice to see how these things are actually built and tested before being shipped over, in the first video around the 5 minute mark, you get a fairly good explanation of why you can buy a cheap Chinese device and sometimes the storage has a picture or a short video on it, from factory - actual humans test the low-end devices, rather than the automated tests that large factories use.
Protection from certain parts of manufacturing (chemical exposure etc.) might be slightly upsetting to some people, but these jobs are better than being out on the streets, being a prostitute, getting beat up by gangs etc.
Its interesting to see manufacturing done away I've never seen.
There's a certain charm to seeing something so sleek and tiny and modern being hand assembled like that. It doesn't even look that bad, and it's certainly not being painted in a bad light like some of the foxconn horror stories. Those foxconn factories are [URL="http://youtu.be/TmLsV9cSk0o?t=2m47s"]just like this,[/URL] only with a higher standards and more people.
For something that contrasts more, there's always the mac pro [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbWOQWw1wkM"]"MADE IN AMERICA!" ad.[/URL]
[QUOTE=latin_geek;44285551]There's a certain charm to seeing something so sleek and tiny and modern being hand assembled like that. It doesn't even look that bad, and it's certainly not being painted in a bad light like some of the foxconn horror stories. Those foxconn factories are [URL="http://youtu.be/TmLsV9cSk0o?t=2m47s"]just like this,[/URL] only with a higher standards and more people.
For something that contrasts more, there's always the mac pro [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbWOQWw1wkM"]"MADE IN AMERICA!" ad.[/URL][/QUOTE]
Assembly-line jobs seem pretty damn monotonous, not to mention that many of them are probably unskilled.
'Screw these in into these slots. Pass it down the line.' Rinse and repeat for a few years.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;44285714]Assembly-line jobs seem pretty damn monotonous, not to mention that many of them are probably unskilled.
'Screw these in into these slots. Pass it down the line.' Rinse and repeat for a few years.[/QUOTE]
Better than doing the same thing every day, but for less money and with more strain on the body. Farming, for example. Which is most of these people's only other option.
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