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More apple badmouthing...
I don't want to ignite an argument, but for me this is additional arguments for staying away from apple, as far as I am concerned. Yes, apple products are OK, but they are fragile and I tend not to be very careful with my belongings.
Yet I have a problem with the safety and quality problems that are appearing, definitely not what you'd expect from products which tend to be presented as premium and "better".
Here is an article about a Foxconn factory in Hong-Kong, where part of the iPad production happens. It seems 2 workers died there in an explosion.
http://news.cnet.com/inside-foxconns-fatal-ipad-factory/8301-17938_105-20065005-1.html
Why blame Apple? Blame Foxconn instead. Apple creates the product, Foxconn mass produces it. Foxconn is well known in making computer hardware (for example desktop motherboards) for several vendors. If an accident happens in the factory, why blame the vendors? It doesn't make any sense...
MrClass wroteWhy blame Apple? Blame Foxconn instead. Apple creates the product, Foxconn mass produces it. Foxconn is well known in making computer hardware (for example desktop motherboards) for several vendors. If an accident happens in the factory, why blame the vendors? It doesn't make any sense...
Because I would expect a "responsible" company to take their business somewhere else. I'm not saying Apple is not trying to... I'm giving them the benefit of doubt, but it increasingly looks like they want to stick with Foxconn.
It is falling on apple because they are the most high-profile customer of FoxConn, I guess, and because this accident happened in a facility dedicated for polishing iPad tablets (AFAIK), and also following the suicide at Foxconn a while ago, also related to an Apple product.
If companies want to keep producing their products with the lowest bidder, regardless of safety and health concerns for the workers - and also quality of the product, then I think they should expect people to speak up.
At the very least, companies should somehow represent their customers, and I don't think most Apple customers and fans would want such things to happen.
Why not blame Foxconn? Probably because we, not being customers of Foxconn and living at the other end of the globe feel we have little power to influence Foxconn. We have the power to buy or not to buy Apple, which in turn has the power to work or not with Foxconn.