Image Credits: iStock As we have shared in the past weeks, Shanghai is the hotspot of China’s current Covid-19 outbreak. Because of this, nearby regions like Wenzhou impose strict entrance policies. Truck drivers are required to show several health declaration forms to prove that they ...
In Taiwan, Apple partners with Foxconn, which is one of its largest and oldest suppliers. Foxconn has approximately 35 supplier locations around the globe, including in India, Brazil, China, and Vietnam, with factories manufacturing components for Apple’s products. ...
these workers are uneducated, malnourished, and easy targets for local companies and international corporations that thrive on cheap labor. For instance, Foxconn, which manufactures iPhone components, was forced toinstall netting around its dormitoriesdue to how commonplace worker suicide by jumping out ...
In moving its supply chain to India, Xiaomi was a half-decade ahead of Apple, which only started manufacturing iPhones in India—also through Foxconn—last year. Xiaomi also beat Apple to opening up physical stores on the subcontinent. Jain says Xiaomi abandoned its online-only sales strategy ...
what does Apple do every night down Fifth Avenue they call up Foxconn and they say I'd like a thousand Mac books at 7:00 a.m. in the morning and what does Foxconn say yes sir and then what does Apple say I'll pay you when I feel like it and what does Foxconn say yes sir thi...
Maybe...or maybe not...a conversation with an American about the potentiality of such misuse will generate a much different response than what one will hear from a Uighur living in the northwestern region of Xinjiang or a Chinese laborer employed at Foxconn. Please enjoy this thought experiment...