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It drew attention initially because they were reported as suicides at work whereas similar aged US factory workers that commit suicide usually do it at home. It turns out that Chinese workers who commit also usually do it at home, but in China workers at big factories like those of Foxconn often live in company owned housing.
The Foxconn incidents were overblown, but it absolutely highlights the cognitive dissonance in Apple's principles of operations. It really is quite funny watching people pretend to care about Tim Cook bending the knee when we've already watched him acquiesce to authoritarianism for market access. We always knew Apple's dependence on China was unhealthy, but America is too allergic to regulation to deter them.