Alleged Foxconn insiders leaked details about Apple’s forthcoming devices
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Could you elaborate on your experience?
but regardless, this is either fake or false flag. most of the new campus is people working on map quality because of apple car and it's not mentioned
>> You are giving away evidence about you and your mates identities !
> Apple knows about us already. We had a visit earlier today. I'm legal counsel, what we are doing is legal, however frowned upon.
I am really curious how that works out.
Could this also point to a fragmented Apple that wants to share (perhaps to refine last-minute details?) but can't due to embargoes?
Also, I still get chuckles that the current crop of MacBooks have the exact two ports that everyone wants on current iPhone.
Assume my question hasn't been answered unless there's a comment underneath here saying it has. (I'm about to go to bed, anyone else is free to update.)
As for return of a dedicated headphone jack on iPhones, I think that is highly unlikely as it was fundamental to their ideas about "wireless future." MagSafe they can return to ideologically.
As a single data point, the loss of the headphone jack was the sole reason I didn't buy a 7.
Also, it would also be amazing for Apple to add Mag Safe connectors back to their laptops. Certainly, there must have been a sharp rise in destroyed laptops at coffee shops for them to backtrack?
Honestly for well over a year now it felt like the Pro was officially canned and ATP podcast reported from an insider that literally no one was working on it as soon as Q4 2016.
My thinking is there was a change of direction internally and a decision the future of Apple still required the talent and community of pro users rather than just embracing the mainstream full on and hoping that pros will be happy with iPads.
That would be something new for Foxconn.
14 suicides for a company of Foxconn's size doesn't seem particularly unusual, except for maybe being below national average.
With that being said, and to make clear I'm not an expert on Foxconn's corporate workings, but doesn't Foxconn offer housing at many of their campuses? It was my understanding that their larger factories are basically Foxconn cities where employees both live and work. I would assume many of these suicides took place at Foxconn facilities but not while actually working.
On the other hand, employing north of a million people to do assembly work probably comes with all sorts of challenges.
This is especially the case in China where official stats are of variable quality.
In general we think China has a very high rate of death by suicide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_China
> Statistics are somewhat controversial in that independent studies often produce estimates that are greatly at odds with official statistics provided by the country's government. On the basis of data gathered in 1999, the government estimated an overall rate of 13.9 per 100,000 people,[4] much lower than in the total rate in other East Asian countries: Japan (18.5) and South Korea (28.9).
> The most recent government data provides statistics more inline with external estimations. According to a 2011 Centre for Disease Control and Prevention report, China's suicide rate is 22.23 people out of every 100,000.[5] This rate places the country among the countries with the highest suicide per capita in the world. For 2009–2011, 44% of all suicides occurred among those aged 65 or above and 79% among rural residents.[6] However, a 2014 study conducted by the Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong reported that China's suicide rate has dropped significantly, among the lowest levels [7] in the world. An average annual rate of about 9.8 people out of every 100,000 died by suicide as of 2009 to 2011, a 58% drop, largely as a result of population migration from rural areas and urbanization of middle class. Paul Yip, a co-author of the recent study and professor at the University of Hong Kong, said "no country has ever achieved such a rapid decline in suicides".[8]
The problem is how work is regimented: employees are not allowed to talk to each other while on a shift, and they get moved to New dorms randomly where they know no one, and may never see because they're on different shifts. It's a lack of human contact, a very different type of working condition.
Either that, or industrial farming is really lovely and caring: https://www.perdue.com/perdue-way/animal-care/ .
Let's put it another way: Chinese people who work at Foxconn are less likely to commit suicide than Chinese people who do not work at Foxconn. (And meanwhile, this controversy is continually discussed as if Foxconn only made products for Apple... I wonder how many people suicided to make your Xbox.)
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