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How Your Apple Products Are Made.
This really doesn’t make me feel good about it, but I bet 98% of the products we buy come from conditions like this.
Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly sent 20-year-old reporter Liu Zhi Yi undercover in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China. For 28 days, he experienced dreadful conditions that the factory’s 400,000 employees endure, churning out iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple nonstop.
There’s no doubt about it. The Foxconn suicides were caused by job stress. Within half a year, there have been nine suicides attempts with seven confirmed deaths at Foxconn’s Shenzhen factory, prompting the company to hire counselors and even Buddhist monks to free the souls of the suicidal from purgatory.
Foxconn is one of Apple’s main manufacturer contractors. Thousands of Mac minis, iPods, iPhones and iPads are assembled daily in the Shenzhen factory, which runs 24/7.
That is the same face I make when my friends buy a new Apple product.
The sad fact is, it doesn’t matter what you buy, chances are it’s made by low-wage workers in another country. Chalk it up to capitalism.
Foxconn manufactures components/assembles for HP, Dell, Sony and Amazon too… Why aren’t their names at the top of this article also? Oh yeah, because haters gonna hate.
I don’t think Gizmodo can be trusted to offer impartial reports on anything Apple-related these days.
Consider the source people. Or switch to a tech-blog with a little more dignity:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/19/undercover-chinese-reporter-exposes-foxconn-working-conditions/
Reblogged for truth, I was just posting it because I saw it and thought people should see it. Engadget is definitely better than Gizmodo, and it’s good to have the full story now. I didn’t even think to hop over to Engadget to find the same story.
