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(154,021 posts)That painted work conditions at Foxxcon as beyond the pale. NPR tried to vet the story and could not. They retracted the full story.
For the record Foxxcon is a horrible place to work, they forbid any union organizing, against Chinese law, and produce on the same floor microsoft's xbox 360.
There are reasons not to like their practices, and actually the cheap labor for a slew of corps must outweigh the copyright infringement that regularly happens there. For a good example of this google apad, and look at a few images. No, any similarities with the iPad are not purely coincidental. Did I mention the Apads, running android, launched a day after the iPad I?
But looking at this as a cult does not help. We have systemic problems with our corporations that have mostly given up on the us and the us workforce, until our labor becomes cheaper than Chinese or Bangladeshi labor I suspect. Then they'll come back, not a dime earlier. And it is high time people look beyond a "cult."